Central Beekeepers Alliance

City of Bees: Children’s Video

City of Bees: A Children’s Guide to Bees is a 30-minute DVD that comes “highly recommended” by Video Librarian (”Editor’s Choice”) and by Educational Media Reviews Online. “The DVD has a photo gallery of stills from the production, allows instructors to display subtitles, and offers lesson plans correlated to National Standards. A [...]

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Update on Nosema in Maritime Canada

Dick Rogers of Wildwood Labs has released this information about the results of on-going investigations into the presence of Nosema and Nosema ceranae in the Maritime Provinces: Based on results to-date, it appears that N.ceranae is well established and makes up about 50% or more of cases in surveyed provinces of NS and PEI. More [...]

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Honey Bee Video and Free Teachers Guide

The Honey Files: A Bee’s Life is an educational video and teacher’s guide set, available now through the National Honey Board. The focus is, of course, on beekeeping and pollination in the United States, but there’s a great deal here of value to teachers and home-schooling parents in other countries as well. [...]

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Study: Honey Helps to Ease Children’s Cough

It’s not an “old wives’ tale” after all — a spoonful of honey at bedtime really does help children to stop coughing and get a good night’s sleep. Given the recent alarms about the use of over-the-counter cold medicines for young children, this comes as welcome news to parents. According to a study reported in [...]

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New Brunswick Launches Register of Farm Businesses

A new Register of Farm Businesses to help support the work done by general farm organizations in the province has been launched by Agriculture and Aquaculture Minister Ronald Ouellette. The minister, second from right, recently presented the first-ever Registered Professional Agricultural Producer card to greenhouse producer and Agricultural Alliance of New Brunswick (AANB) Treasurer Patrice [...]

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