The idea is to develop urban apiaries far from the agricultural zones handled in a extensive way.
To create livestocks of bees of saving which can repopulate stricken zones.
To bring the nature to the city-dwellers who can discover a profitable hobby.
To restore a cohesion between the young people and the ancient.
To revalue the products of the hive which are healthy products and production.
To protect an environment which feeds us.
Our association is the office of no labor syndicate, party, foundation or the other entity.
The voluntary work is whole, the freedom of total share.
Our coded objective: 7 000 hives and urban ruchettes on the whole territory.
.Extrait of the regulations concerning the setting-up of apiaries having its head office in France, Isère ( 38 ), I quote:
Article 1:
° hives must not be placed unless 20 metres of the public highway and the nearby properties.
° In the case cases or the nearby properties are wood, moors or fallow lands, this distance is 10 metres at least.
° It is 100 metres at least if the nearby properties neighbours are houses or establishments with collective character (hospitals, barracks, schools).Article 2:
° However, special measures of places can be taken by the Prefect, on inquiry motivated by the interested.
We thus have a legislation current which facilitates in its texts the implatation of urban apiaries, some departments have an even more flexible regulations and the question of Special measures open a possible dialogue.
Anecdote:
the fires (summer, 2007 in Greece) destroyed 20 000 hives.
In the current configuration of the environment apicole, how long will it be necessary to reconstitute the livestocks ?
How many farmers touched by the inexorable loss of their returns are going to leave countrysides ?
So weakening the maintenance of the plots of land which of the blow will be...
The forecasters of the climate saw their most pessimistic estimations as for the cast iron of the polar skullcap widely exceeded. The planned rise of the temperatures announces the desertification of Mediterranean countries.
Our bees will help to maintain a flora maybe in evolution as for essences there, in any case allowing the populations and the wild fauna to remain there.
All the members of MEN AND BEES have an share easy to like, intelligent in its vocation, useful as for its end.
The urban associative apiaries have the possibility of developing their production, without the immediate concern of creation of profits.
It allows to have a work applied to a demand which can vary.
It is as well easy to opt for a breeding of queens, as to privilege the production of wax or honey, the ability to react in the management of an apiary is impressive, an asset for the success of the association.
The practice of the beekeeping sets only not enough time: 2 at 3 am for 2 hives every 15 days for 7 months on average!
The winter allows to deepen its theoretical knowledge (tutoriels on the site, seen again apicoles), it is the opportunity to prepare the equipment of the following season.
The management of time in the apiary of every member is facilitated by the presence of the other members insuring the necessary gestures.
The passion is often for the meeting, if of adventure a member wants to create his personal apiary, then it is a victory of the association, is not it the own of the bees to spread out?
The association will have in heart of préter of the equipment, to help...
The full success will benefit the nature, the alive sorts, the happiness of the members.
The beekeeping being a passion many of ancient practise it and would like to volontier to pass on their knowledge and credit note young muscles to help them to treat(manipulate) bees, to raise the increases, to transhumer...
Their attendance is enriching, they often possess a peace, a cold blood which exceed the average, the lunar calendar is their everyday life, the nature they will make it you discover.
The youth it is the exuberance, the research for its ideals, for itself, maybe for a profession. To frequent the beekeepers it is to give itself of the recession, the depth to bloom better.
The future can also conceive in the rurality in France as abroad; to be beekeeper is a good calling card!
Bees are doubtless the most generous animals; their production is impressive:
Stemming from the Middle East, the bee knew by successive swarming to colonize all the continents, allowing the native populations which wish it, a local supply of these benefactions. Protect an environment which feeds us.
We are the generation which has to check the decline of the colonies of bees!
to create and to maintain an urban associative apiary.
MEN AND BEES is partner of C O C I P E