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Located in the cradle of American beekeeping, the Philadelphia Beekeepers Guild works to encourage and promote urban beekeeping through fellowship and education, and to raise awareness of the importance of bees to our environment.
Philadelphia Beekeepers Guild proudly announces its partnership with Bartram’s Garden, the Wagner Free Institute of Science and Wyck Historic House to offer Philadelphia’s 2010 Honey Festival on the weekend of September 10-12, 2010. A full schedule of family-friendly activities, both fun and educational, is being planned throughout the city for easy access by all.
Beekeepers across the United States and the rest of the world celebrate the 200th birthday of Philadelphian Lorenzo L. Langstroth, The Father of Modern Beekeeping, born at 106 South Front Street in 1810. Philadelphia’s 2010 Honey Festival will begin by commemorating the life and work of Rev.
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 P. J. Mahan, among the first to import Italian honeybees, selling Langstroth-patented hives on Chestnut St. in 1857.
Source–”Philadelphia and its manufactures : a handbook exhibiting the development, variety and statistics of the
manufacturing industry of Philadelphia in 1857 : together with sketches of remarkable manufacturies, and
a list of articles now made in Philadelphia.” Philadelphia: Edward Young, 1859, 516 pgs
Along with Samuel Wagner, S. B. Parsons, and L. L. Langstroth, Mahan was one of the first importers of Italian honey bees.
The guild has been getting lots of requests for speaking engagements, interviews, appearances, marriage proposals, offers we can’t refuse, etc. Well maybe not those last two, but a lot of requests. So far your intrepid board members have been trying to respond to all of these but now that all of us have jobs, we’re looking for some help. SO, if you would like to represent the guild and Philadelphia Beekeeping, drop us a line – info@phillybeekeepers.org.
We’ll prefer members for this help, and the longer you’ve been keeping bees the better. And we can’t guarantee anything, but we’d love to
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Here’s an article about CCD that proposes that there actually is no such thing. Before you get upset, read it. Even Dennis VanEngelsdorp has pointed out that similar mass die-offs have happened in the past. The basic point of this article is that while globally there’s plenty of bees, industrial agriculture and economics may eventually lead to a real collapse.
Raspberries, Pears and Chocolate: A Fresh Understanding of the Bee Crisis
http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/011255.html
by Nathanael Johnson
Thanks to Anna Herman for pointing this out on the Yahoo group. If you’re not a member of that group use the link in the blogroll on the
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http://live.psu.edu/story/47041
University Park, Pa. — Penn State has received a $250,000 gift to endow a graduate fellowship in entomology in the College of Agricultural Sciences.
At the request of the donor, who wishes to remain anonymous, the endowment will be named the Lorenzo L. Langstroth Graduate Fellowship in Entomology, in honor of the 19th century apiarist widely considered to be the “father of American beekeeping.”
Income from the endowment will be used to recruit and retain outstanding graduate students pursuing an entomology degree, with first preference given to students conducting research related to honeybees.
Read the whole story at the PSU web site
http://research.calacademy.org/files/Departments/scipubs/proccas_v60_n03.pdf
Lorenzo Lorraine Langstroth was born at 106 South Front Street in Philadelphia on Christmas Day in 1810. He never lost his childhood curiosity for nature. The eldest son, Langstroth attended the preparatory school of the University of Pennsylvania and went on to become a Yale-trained tutor, educator, and minister; he achieved greatness in apiculture as a lecturer, writer, and inventor. His enthusiastic yet sound observations and forward-thinking innovations in that field have garnered him universal acclaim as The Father of American Beekeeping.
Until the mid-nineteenth century, beekeeping had been conducted in the same way as it had since history
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The June meeting of the Guild will be held at the Unitarian Society of Germantown on Lincoln drive instead of our usual location.
Please check the updated listing for a map…(click through to post details for link, or click on calendar listing to the left)
USG address is : 6511 Lincoln Drive, Philadelphia, PA 19119-3625
Phone: (215)-844-1157
ACCESS THE PARKING LOT FROM Johnson St. between Wayne Ave and the SEPTA Track. Enter the side door and come downstairs to the Dining Room. We will discuss techniques for getting the honey off the hive and then demonstrate crush and strain, and extraction.
http://philly.brownstoner.com/2010/04/redbricker_a_wing_and_a_prayer.php
Redbricker: Pay to Play History?
“We don’t know if a honey lobby sweetened the pot for the Langstroth marker, but we can imagine we’ll see more like last year’s Milton Hershey marker, at his first candy store, 935 Spring Garden Street.”
Joe Hansen is a commercial beekeeper for the family-owned Foothills Honey Company in Colton, Oregon has an article on the Culinate Web Site listing 8 important reasons to eat local raw honey of the type that we here at the guild are making. It’s worth the read.
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Lorenzo Langstroth Historical Marker 
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