Beekeeping in Different areas of the World
Many areas in the world are great producers of honey and beeswax used for medication and food. A lot of beekeeping can be found in the United States, Asia, Africa, and a few in Europe. Since beekeeping had originated in Europe and had been modernized in the United States, the way it’s done is different and the way it’s taught is different as well. Yet this is a very interesting way to see how different cultures train someone to do beekeeping as a way of life and part of the culture.
The cool thing is that honey is used for mostly food in so many cultures that use it in religious and celebratory occasions when preparing certain concoctions or meals and honey is used to sweeten it.
Americans are usually in the business of beekeeping to produce honey for the supermarket and for shipment overseas to markets and countries that don’t have beekeeping businesses that is advanced enough to mass produce the necessary amount to ship overseas to stores owned and operated in the United States like Whole Foods Market when they carry specific brands.
Most countries overseas don’t have the system the way the United States does to make mass productions of a product like honey since we managed to harvest effectively so we can produce enough to meet the needs of the market till the spring season starts again to produce since in the winter months bees are not active and start again in late March early April when the mating season has just begin and the flowers are ready for pollination. The U.S. alone turns out the majority of the honey that’s used when they provide to supermarkets owned by American based companies to their stores and restaurants overseas.
Beekeepers could be observing hives every 7 to 8 days generally making it the ideal time on the weekend to pass time. Hives don’t need a lot of maintaining just an hour a day between the peak seasons around May to September. A good season can produce for a keeper 60-100 pounds of honey and depending on how much the buyer charges by the pound that’s what you go by to what you’ll make for every harvest you get.
One annoyance to beekeepers by the time of harvesting the honey and maintaining of the hives are bumblebees these are the big ugly black and yellow bees that are seen going through the flowers honey bees have already visited and these bees live underground so they can be an annoyance to beekeepers when swarming from the ground up . A lot of beekeepers move their hives which is called migratory which is one of the secrets to increase honey production and giving bees a fresh supply of flowers to pollinate and feed from so they can produce a wide range of batches of honey.
Each pollination differs from each batch which is contributed when hives are rotated and bees go to different flowers. So that’s why sometimes honey may have distinct taste since it’s the different flowers which were available to them at that given time.
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