Glengall Wharf Garden | Burgess Park Food Project and the story so far. Modules - British Beekeepers Association (BBKA) The Modules are written examinations held at a centre in your region with each paper taking 1½hrs. You can take up to 4 modules in each session. There are seven modules to be studied: Module 1 - Honey bee Management Module 2 - Honey bee Products and Forage Module 3 - Honey bee Pests, Diseases and Poisoning Module 5 - Honey bee Biology Module 6 - Honey bee Behaviour Module 7 - Selection & Breeding of Honey bees Module 8 - Honey bee Management, Health and History Module 8 must be the last module to be taken, otherwise they can be tackled in any order. After passing modules 1, 2, 3 and one other from 5, 6 and 7 you are awarded the Intermediate Theory Certificate and after passing all modules you are awarded the Advanced Theory Certificate. The entry requirements to sit the modules are the Basic Certificate and at least 2 years beekeeping experience. The Area Exam Secretary will contact you with details of the Examination. Past exam papers are now available from the online shop.
Revised Laws and Urban Farming Projects Provide New Opportunities for Urban Gardeners Dr. MercolaWaking Times Interest in urban agriculture is growing locally as well as nationally—a trend that is truly a cause for celebration. In fact, I’ve been encouraging everyone to plant a “Victory Garden” as a step toward fixing our broken food system. During the previous Victory Garden period Americans produced over 40% of the vegetables in America in their yards. Growing your own garden or participating in a community garden is a great way to improve your health, help build a sustainable food system, and support our planet as it struggles to make room for increasing numbers of us. Urban gardens are key to saving energy, protecting water quality and topsoil, and promoting biodiversity and beautifying densely populated communities. For all of those reasons and many more, urban agriculture is growing so quickly that changes in local ordinances are not able to keep up. Every city has different laws and ordinances, and there are no standards spanning jurisdictional lines.
The Geopolitics of Energy: An Interview with Steve Horn Posted on Dec 2, 2013 in Fracked Media | 0 comments If there is an up-and-coming investigative journalist to follow, it’s Steve Horn of DeSmog Blog. If you follow any of Frack The Media’s social media, you’ve been exposed to Steve. What draws us to Steve (and others like him) is his attention to detail surrounding the energy issue. Frack The Media: A lot of your reporting has focused on fracking and tar sands. Steve Horn: I focus on these issues for a number of reasons. Given my academic background is in sociology and history and my keen interest in geopolitics, there is far more to these issues than meets the eye at face-value. In the case of fracking and tar sands, they’re the two biggest sources of energy that have transformed the U.S. and Canada into the “New Saudi Arabia” for oil and gas, huge players in the geopolitical “great game,” as Zbiginiew Brzezinski once put it. There will still be wars for oil of course, as it’s a cornerstone of U.S. geopolitical planning. And as S.