if you're new to the channel welcome my name is Humberto Boncristiani and this
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hit the bell button so we don't miss a single thing. In today's video I'm gonna
talk about a good friend of mine dr. Malcolm Sanford a legend in beekeeping
he taught beekeeping at University of Florida for so many years, worked with
beekeeper for so many years, he's a writer, he's an actor he had done all
kinds of things that you can possibly think. A very fantastic person and a good
friend of mine that I believe everybody should know and learn from him. Because
he's doing for so long about beekeeping he has so much he contributes so much
for to the field that it's gonna be hard to me to to keep in one
single video, so what I decided to do three different videos about
his career. I want to talk first in this video about his book which is something
interesting because he was generous enough to give me five copies signed
copies so we're gonna have a giveaway more information in the end of this video
first video gonna talk about his book to all different new features it is the second
edition beautiful book I recommend it's not a sponsorship I'm doing that because
I believe the book is good and the second the second part , the second
video is gonna be about his website that he keeps for so many years he writes a
lot of different articles in his website everything is for free which really fits
what my channel is about. About free science oriented content about bees and
beekeeping so I really enjoy that kind of attitude
when people have this feeling this desire to provide free content to people
so I decide this is gonna be a good content for us too. So the third video is
going to be dr. Sanford and I discussing the future of beekeeping I wanna pick
his brain about some difficult subjects that we face in today's world about bees
and I want to know his opinion, things about where we going with bees what's
the problem that we're facing today there is anything that we can do better
this kind of subjects we're going to be discussing the third video so without
further do let's jump into the first video. The idea here today is to to
introduce a good friend of mine a legend and beekeeping and somebody that I'm
sure everybody at home can learn a lot from. How many years in beekeeping
professor? well I started in beekeeping and about 1977 a long time back
and my I started beekeeping as a geographer first off and later as an
entomologist and so beekeeping has both of those parts to it as a geographical
aspect to it because it's something people often don't understand is the
situation with reference to specific geography and bees behavior in certain
geographic settings some people think bees are all the same
they operate the same no matter where you are in the world that's not the case
so I started with my first beekeeping experience really was in Georgia the
University of Georgia where I was a lab technician with dr. Al Dietz up
there and then my next situation was going to doing a geographic thesis of
the beekeeping in the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico
Wow that's that's nice long time ago a long time ago I feel that I need to stop
a little and just to organize the house here it's gonna be hard in just a couple
of videos to tell everything I would like to talk about this guy
so the way I'm organized 76 years old so I mean hey you know that's part of the
issue right talk about maybe too much but I want to talk as much as I can
right so the way I'm trying to do that I don't want to explain to people at home
is first this first video we got is a short introduction about doctor Stanford
and we're gonna talk more about his book write stories' guide to keeping honeybees
here we go the reason the motivation for for me to do that because the first
edition of this book was one of the books that I learned beekeeping myself
when the first one first one came out in 2002 toe okay that makes sense yeah I I
used this book I was very happy with the book but when I got here and gainesville,
in Florida and I saw the second edition I got excited I got excited because the
the way they organized the book really fits what I believe it's necessary for a
book to pass a message in beekeeping is more one of the things I read probably I
probably read all the beekeeping books out there and one thing that I can tell
about this one that I like a lot is when you're studying beekeeping your mind
goes away when you be scanned a pathogen and the plants and your mind and start
to fly away in the panels and organizations that you
guys put in I think that was very special I had good editors I had good
energy very good very good because you're learning something and you start
to ask yourself oh how about that and then the panel is there and then oh how
about how about that there's something right there close by that you can't
connect the whole story much easier in my opinion and I enjoyed that so one of
one of my motivations because you guys at home complaining that I do not bring
good stuff to the channel about diseases and bee dying as a disaster things cause
are good things
so in this video series we're gonna talk about good stuff
you're gonna how we can get free science oriented information from dr. Sanford
from his book his website which is free free website, a lot of information there for
free and I and and then we're gonna also talk about bee problems today and I want
his opinion about a lot of different aspect of me keeping today so that's
some what's the video series is about so professor what tell me about your book
well it's as I say it's this in the second edition yes it's pretty it's been
around now a while people have been involved in the looking at it and coming
to grips with it so the second edition came out with some a little bit of
tweaks about how it could be done better and again as I said I had very good
editors at stories guide story as a large publishing house that publishes
all kinds of animal husbandry so there's stories guide to raising
ducks there's guys they're raising chickens and this is the bee part of that
stories guide to keeping honey bees originally the focus of this book really
was two books written by Richard Bonney and he was a Maryland beekeeper and it
was also involved in regulation and so on and he wrote a couple of books this
Storey published and those then became the focus and the sort of the basis for
this book. He died. so Richard unfortunately Dix no longer with us so I
picked up that challenge to try to take these two books that he developed a
little bit and stuff that I have and put it together into one a part of the
Stories because soar didn't have a beekeeping book this is their bee
keeping book so I'm really happy about that that that that concept came out
that way so that's the that's where it all began and as I say the first edition
has been sell pretty well and what's unique about this book are several areas
one is stories of beekeepers real life stories of beekeepers who wrote in I've
written a newsletter for many many years and I ask people during the writing of
this book would you send me something a story about how you got into beekeeping
what was what what were your challenges what are you doing
what was your history whatever and we took those stories and put them together
and edit to them and put them in the book as part of the part of the
uniqueness of this book so it's got these stories that are interspersed
throughout the text about there is people they have a bee inspector mm-hm
we have several people that are involved in bees with women beekeepers men
beekeepers that kind of thing so that's part of the uniqueness of this book the
other is the panel's you're talking about I love these are text boxes
basically and the boxes there's a whole list basically of those that are
involved ones that might might be interested it would be like there's one
about the observation hive there's one about what I call a matter of physics
which has to do with the idea of the winter cluster and basically and how the
winter cluster survives winter or doesn't it's all a matter of physics
basically the Tao of smoking bees it's one of my favorites
we know all about the know the Tao the idea of the Tao philosophy more is less
is good more the kind of idea like that and so in the Tao of smoking bees I
discussed a little bit about how you can actually use less smoke most beekeepers
use too much smoke and so it becomes kind of a judgement call
and then the Tao be smoked talks about losing it's less smoke and what that
means that's the next thing that people talked about with this book and the
first edition was line drawings not been that many photographs there was one or
two photographs on the cover and so on but story decided to go ahead and
upgrade this second edition and it's just chock-full of chock-full of color
photographs people like that yeah and then we got some pretty good response
from that so that's another a little bit different than other books it might that
you might see and and store it in this guide of course was upgraded because of
that so we have the text boxes we have the stories we have the color
photographs and then we have the actual layout and so on of the book and I added
a couple things about "Apiscentric" beekeeping APIs centric meaning we're
not talking so much about beekeepers but about bees and the new there's a new
concept of they're called honeybee health mmm-hmm that's the new kind of
mantra yes yeah so how do you be health as an important this year no question
about that people never thought about that for many years when I started
beekeeping nobody ever said what about honeybee health it was that wasn't an
issue as well right and that's another thing that beekeeping
is shifted to now we know it's not much in the books a little bit about
pollination but when I started beekeeping it was all about honey yep as
I say when I went to Mexico is all about exporting honey to our be wilson company
York and then just the last in a really less decade or so it's now become
pollination is the driving force whose where the more and that's where the
money is and that's where people are keeping bees are and they're not so much
in another production anymore so that has shifted quite a bit I don't talk
about that much in this book but I talk a little bit about pollination what's
involved and how how people beekeepers might be able to start that as an
enterprise that's the other thing that beekeeping is interesting in terms of
the enterprises you can you can produce products you can produce services
everything around the honeybee and that makes it a very competitive sort of
situation to be in where you can choose pick and choose what kind of thing is
more economically advantaged advantageous to you if you're gonna be
keeping bees reading the book I I'm trying to ask myself who who were you
thinking yeah it's a good question because I can see not only basic things
but some more advanced combined so who is the target well you know that's a
good question there's no real there's no real right
answer to that hey you know I'm not the first person to write a bee book I think
you mentioned a few people like Lang stirreth and back in the 1850s and all
that there's been a few more be books written since then and this this is sort
of the last of the whatever but anyways so so as a consequence secuence in my
vision and and talking with story we need something that's got a you know
will sell more books I mean it's one of the concepts you can't you don't have
any do not have no information people want they're not gonna buy your book so
this thing is basically oriented to the beginner yeah it really is a beginning
beekeeping is a beginning but I I can't see there is more right there is more in
there that's that's part of you know over time the
the writer myself getting more information to be able to put it
involved in the book but the actual audience is the beginning beekeeper and
that's what we're really marketing to the beginner and we hope then that
people will come and look at the stories and other kinds of areas and maybe get a
little broader review independent where they're coming from but it is the it is
a beginning beekeeping book it's not the only one out there right well you're a
good competitor I can't that's a good book well yeah thank you thank you very
much anyway I appreciate you inviting me to come to your channel and talk to
people and see what's going on and thank you for yeah yeah I think people will
beneficiate a lot from your experience well so we're gonna give this book away
right yeah thinking about that's important yeah it's important to giving
this thing away yeah yeah generous man to giveaway five Books yeah way to do
that and I need to do some homework but um I'm glad to do that
so I gonna put the you can like a raffle how does that operate okay I'm gonna
need to put the rules so have a rule the rules are down here you can find in the
destination along gonna leave it up myself because I don't have any idea a
link to my website and the rules gonna be there so you can see what you need to
do to enter in this competition there's gonna be five books and the rules are
gonna be very well explained it there I'm not gonna spend time here to cover
those rules because I probably don't know them yet we need to figure out a
way it's like everything else the world is kind of little complex right little
more complex than you might yeah but probably something that for sure is
going to be in the rules is one you need you like this video and comment in
this video and share with friends and family that that helps a lot your chance
is to get because I think the raffle is gonna come from those comments or or
people that liked this video and interact with this video and I think
we're gonna get that who the winners from from those interactions but the
full rule is gonna be there in the description below right here just click
more and you can find a link that goes to my website and the rules are there
and you know what to do to get one of these copies stories guide to keeping
honey bees that's right thank you sir and I'd be glad to come
the next time we talk about my website I'm really excited about that there's a
stateless information Resource Center it'll be next number to his website
where everybody can learn a lot about bees free of charge see you guys next
week bye bye bye