Ross Conrad learned his craft from the late Charles Mraz, world-renowned beekeeper and founder of Champlain Valley Apiaries in Vermont. Former president of the Vermont Beekeepers Association, Conrad is a regular contributor to Bee Culture—The Magazine of American Beekeeping. He has led bee-related presentations and taught organic beekeeping workshops and classes throughout North America for many years. His small beekeeping business, Dancing Bee Gardens, supplies friends, neighbors, and local stores with honey and candles, among other bee related products, and provides bees for Vermont apple-pollination in spring.
Midwest Book Review- Natural Beekeeping with Ross Conrad (3 hours
13 min.) is an instructional DVD in which Vermont beekeeper Ross
Conrad teaches the viewer about organic and natural means to keep
honeybees healthy and free from parasitic mites. Today, the
chemicals often used to protect beehives are starting to breed
resistance in pests, with the potential to cause increasing harm in
the future. Natural Beekeeping offers invaluable alternatives, as
well as fundamentals that every beekeeper must learn, such as how
hive equipment works, and the basic process of harvesting and
processing honey. Natural Beekeeping is a "must-have" for aspiring
beekeepers, or anyone simply curious to learn more about the
process!
Library Journal-
"Natural Beekeeping is about beekeeping via multistory Langstroth
beehives with removable frames, the kind seen in corners of fields
along our rural highways. Vermont beekeeper Conrad offers viewers a
comprehensive treatment of bees and natural methods of beekeeping
in classroom lectures augmented with field videos. This guy knows
his bees! Conrad presents strategies for combatting colony collapse
disorder (CCD), varroa mites, and other bee pests including mice,
skunks, and bears. He also demonstrates hive management and
overwintering strategies for the ten-frame Langstroth bee box that
will convince some viewers to invest in similar hives for their
beekeeping efforts. VERDICT These two outstanding videos for those
interested in exploring beekeeping were inspired by same-titled
print works by the beekeepers and are highly recommended for
general audiences." (reviewed with Top-Bar Beekeeping)
“Ross Conrad . . . makes organic apiculture seem not only possible,
but necessary.”--Gary Paul Nabhan, co-author, The Forgotten
Pollinators
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