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What goes around comes around. Today "recycling" and "sustainability" are words we hear every day as we are rightly urged to care for our fragile planet. For me, growing up in a remote forester's house, on the edge of the Brecon Beacons in the immediate post war years, re-cycling was something we did automatically. Remoteness and the austerity of the times also meant that sustainability came naturally as we had to have a certain amount of self-sufficiency with goats, chickens and bees housed at the end of the garden. It was a time of rationing and honey was, as it had been before thetransportation of sugar from New World plantations, the main source of sweetness in our food and cooking.Memories of those now distant days have been in part responsible for this book. My earlier publication - Traditional Welsh Honey Recipes - made me realise how much can be done with honey and so I have welcomed the opportunity, offered by the International Bee Research Association (IBRA), to expand and vary those recipes. All the contents have been tried and tested, on and by my own family and friends, who sometimes managed to eat the food before it could be photographed for the book which is, I suppose in its own way, a kind of recommendation! I hope that you, too, will enjoy, not only the end product, but also the making of these recipes which may well stimulate memories as well as appetites.Preparing the food has been a joy, preparing the book has been hard work. Tony Gruba and Stuart Williams willingly took on the task of making many of the recipes thus helping me ensure that the instructions, as well as the ingredients, were understandable to a new reader. It was good to know that they had satisfaction from the cooking process as well as the food. I thank them for their help.The book would not have been completed without the tireless support, the constructive criticism and suggestions of my daughter, Sarah Jones. She has been a formidable taskmaster and editor but I thank her for the precision I believe she has brought to my simple home cooking approach. My thanks also to Joanne Hawker for her creative design and layout, which I hope you will find helps when you use the book.

Synopsis: This literature proposes new ideas and innovations that take into account the ultimate Beescape for Meliponaries with bee comfort at the top of the list of considerations. Thermal comfort is a term of grave concern when it comes to conservation in Meliponiculture. Often enough, enthusiastic new beekeepers are not overly worried about heat dissipation, especially during the summers on the fringes of the tropics.Heat waves in the tropics may leave beekeepers anxious about the stability of the colony's health and population growth, Chances are the existing colonies may see the population dwindling rather than growing at any rate. We also look at earth tremors if not earthquakes in the "ring of fire" zone in The Wallacea regions. Flooding threats in South East Asia and Typhoons in the Oceanic Philippines are very troubling. Addressing these disastrous events and the potential threats is one of the aims of this book. We have scoured the region and looked at how different cultures attempt to mitigate the drastic and extreme weather in their respective regions. Out of these examples and data collection, we provide a gallery of designs on relevant bee housing that may have an impact on such mitigation that may apply to the relevant type of disaster frequently faced in each region.

Synopsis: This literature proposes new ideas and innovations that consider the ultimate Beescape for Meliponaries, with bee comfort at the top of the list of considerations. Thermal comfort is a term of grave concern regarding conservation in Meliponiculture. Often enough, enthusiastic beekeepers are not overly worried about heat dissipation, especially during the summers on the fringes of the tropics. Heat waves in the tropics may leave beekeepers anxious about the stability of the colony's health and population growth. The existing colonies may see the population dwindling rather than growing. We also look at earth tremors, if not earthquakes, in the "ring of fire" zone in The Malay Archipelago and Wallacea regions. Flooding threats in Southeast Asia and Typhoons in the Oceanic Philippines are troubling. Recent reports on landslides leave affected beekeepers very distressed.Addressing these disastrous events and the potential threats is one of the aims of this book. We have scoured the region and examined how different cultures attempt to mitigate their respective regions' drastic and extreme weather. Out of these examples and data collection, we provide a gallery of designs on relevant bee housing that may impact such mitigation that may apply to the relevant type of disaster frequently faced in each region. The reader is afforded a choice of constructive possibilities depending on the availability of materials, site topography, and geography of their Meliponary location.

Synopsis: Thermal comfort is a grave concern regarding conservation in Meliponiculture. Often enough, enthusiastic new beekeepers are not overly worried about heat dissipation, especially during the summers on the fringes of the tropics.Heat waves in the tropics may leave beekeepers anxious about the stability of the colony's health and population growth. The existing colonies may see the population dwindling rather than growing. We also look at earth tremors, if not earthquakes, in Pakistan Region. Flooding threats in South Asia are very troubling. Recent reports on landslides leave affected beekeepers very distressed.Addressing these disastrous events and the potential threats is one of the aims of this book. We have scoured the region and examined how different cultures attempt to mitigate the drastic and extreme weather in their regions. Out of these examples and data collection, we provide a gallery of designs on relevant bee illustrations whose type locality is mainly in South Asia and Indo-China.The reader is afforded a choice of constructive possibilities depending on the availability of materials and site topography and geography of their Meliponary location from the Indian Subcontinent and the Himalayan States, Tenasserim Range and mainland Southeast Asia.

Synopsis: This compendium is set in six parts covering the main Philippine regions. The first part is CALABARZON Region IVA which covers Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Rizal & Quezon provinces. The second part is MIMAROPA Region IVB, and this covers Mindoro, Marinduque, Romblon and Palawan. The third part is Bicol Region V and the fourth is Visayas Region VI, VII & VIII. This part covers the islands of Panay, Guimaras, Negros, Cebu, Bohol, Leyte and Samar. The next part covers Davao Region XI in Mindanao. The vignettes and notes on each part are accounts of meliponaries and observations by the author from visits to more than 70 meliponaries throughout the Philippines over six years. In the final part, 'Meliponiculture Distribution' in Central Luzon Regions I - III, and also the other regions not covered by the text, are shown in charts in the Appendices. The Addenda contain lists of beekeepers and meliponiculturists in the regions. The last section has excerpts from an advanced meliponiculture course. All the parts together contain 312 sets of more than 500 images and about two dozen charts, maps and tabulations. it is hoped this can be a useful learning aid for the conscientious beekeeper intending to advance their knowledge and meliponiculture skills in and around the Philippine region.

Synopsis: The 3rd instalment in a series of literature on ASEAN Meliponiculture and Beyond, this portion entails the varied and diverse Stingless Bee Fauna in the Indonesian archipelago. We attempt to bridge the different beekeeping and culture methods in hiving, colony acquisition or multiplication, forage provisioning, nest building material sources and regulating extreme weather or local conditions. To address conservation across the regional ASEAN divide, we produce this literature in a dual­language format for comprehension by a multi-lingual and multi-ethnic population. The methodology employed here will vary from the common to more sophisticated innovations, and at times beyond basic product development. This work also looks at honey-making bee species diversity in the Greater and Lesser Sunda Regions, Wallacea, and the Papuasia Region of the Indonesian Archipelago. It is a vast expanse of thousands of Islands and varied flora and fauna. We have compiled literary sources from many academicians, enthusiasts and breeders of stingless bees. A directory of each culture's varied regional and vernacular names is also included.