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  • From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lflj@bellsouth.net>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [permaculture] Lemonary in Bashkortostan & ancient wild-hive beekeeping.
  • Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2012 18:31:05 -0500


Lemonary In Bashkortostan
Lemonary in Bashkortostan.pdf

Lemonary In Bashkortostan
https://sites.google.com/site/seedkeeping/international-resources/lemonary-in-bashkortostan

(upload of Jerry Lehman's .pdf file attached to nafex post)
Lemonary in Bashkortostan.pdf
https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxzZWVka2VlcGluZ3xneDo3MDYwNmY2NGM4MzZmMWUy

The Lemonarium Website (many pages with excellent photographs):
http://lemonarium.ru/index.html

Also about the lemonary:
http://www.greencom.ru/en/firm_info.html/fID/442
Experimental Instructional Farm of the Ufimsk Forest Husbandry Technical School
Wholesale, Manufacture
Russia, Bashkortostan Resp, Ufimskiy r-n, Ufa g, Mingazheva Str., 126, office: Mendeleeva Str. 152 / 2
+7 3472 52-2000
+7 3472 28-8030
The Farm demonstrates produce of the ornamental plant nursery “Ufimsk Lemonary” for growing citrus and exotic crops (varying-age seedlings of lemon, pomegranate, laurel, fig tree, etc.) and specimens of lemon fruit of different varieties and forms. The farm has been growing citrus crops on an area of 1 ha in protected ground for over 15 year.

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Wild-hive beekeeping in Burziansky region of Bashkortostan

Bashkortostan is the only place in Russia, where people are still
engaged in the ancient business of wild-hive beekeeping. This is the
Wild-hive beekeepingmost ancient form of apiculture, when honey is
gathered not at bee-gardens but on the trees! At that bees are kept in
pine-tree hollows.

The first information about Bashkir apiculture is known from the XVII
century and the peak of wild-hive beekeeping falls on the XVIII-XIX
centuries. Bashkirs kept their own hollows with bees and every bee
master had its own sign (“tamga”) on his hollows. The hollows were
gouged out in trees at the height of 6-8 meters and 60-90 cm in
diameter. Every bee family in such hollows had 2-5 swarms. Strong
bee-families are able to bring up to 10-12 kg of honey per day. Because
of intensive tree-felling and development of agriculture and
cattle-breeding wild-hive beekeeping lost its meaning and gave way to
modern bee-keeping. In order to preserve and investigate wild bees the
Shulgan-Tash state reserve was established in 1986 in Bashkortostan.

Med Wild-hive beekeeping is still alive in Burziansky region of
Bashkortostan. Being nearly completely dead in 50s last century
wild-hive beekeeping began to revive among local population again. There are several reasons to that: people begin to understand growing
significance of natural foods and honey undoubtedly belongs to such
products. Notwithstanding all forecasts wild-hive beekeeping is becoming economically profitable. This honey has no analogues in the world on its medicinal and tasting properties. Wild honey possesses a unique delicate aroma and taste. This honey is saturated with beeswax and ambrosia and is rich with fructose and glucose. Its composition includes ferments and vitamins, about twenty amino acids and mineral aromatic substances.



  • [permaculture] Lemonary in Bashkortostan & ancient wild-hive beekeeping., Lawrence F. London, Jr., 02/12/2012

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