{"id":4645,"date":"2019-10-14T14:08:45","date_gmt":"2019-10-14T11:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newagri.org\/teaching-beekeeping\/"},"modified":"2024-11-07T15:26:28","modified_gmt":"2024-11-07T12:26:28","slug":"teaching-beekeeping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newagri.org\/en\/success-stories\/teaching-beekeeping\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching beekeeping"},"content":{"rendered":"

Meet Paschalis<\/strong><\/p>\n

Paschalis Harizanis, 66, was born in Serres. He is a professor in the Faculty of Crop Science and Director of the Laboratory of Sericulture and Apiculture at the Agricultural University of Athens (AUA), where he teaches classes in the Pathology of Bees and Silkworms, the Pathology of Productive Insects, and Sericulture and Apiculture. His Sericulture Laboratory, part of the Ministry of Agricultural Development and Food, is the silk farming reference laboratory for all of Greece. He leads the Apiculture program implemented by Agricultural University of Athens for the program New Agriculture for a New Generation.<\/p>\n

Paschalis\u2019 interest in bees began when he was 12 years old, a student at the American Farm School (AFS). The first class he took at AFS was an apiculture class, and though he didn\u2019t intend to study apiculture, the school changed his mind. He received a BS degree in General Agriculture from Aristotle University, and while at university, he spent his summers working at AFS. In the summer of 1973, his first summer working at the school, he met a professor of apiculture from the Ohio State University–Columbus who was providing foreign technical assistance to Greece. \u201cI asked if I could help him and learn some beekeeping,\u201d Paschalis said. \u201cAnd at the end of the summer, he asked me if I wanted to go to the US and Canada for three months the following summer to live with two beekeeping families. Of course I said yes.\u201d The\u00a0next summer, Paschalis split his time between Canada and the US. While there, he was able to develop his English skills, and in Canada, his professor took him to an apiculture congress where he met a professor from the University of California, Davis, who encouraged him to apply for a PhD. \u201cI was already a beekeeper at that point, so I didn\u2019t have to learn the techniques–that was a big plus for me,\u201d Paschalis said. \u201cThis chain of circumstances led me to my Master and PhD in Entomology at UC Davis.\u201d He returned to Greece in 1983 and worked as a professor at the Technological Educational Institution of Thessaloniki. He also started a successful beekeeping business that he ran until he started working at AUA in 1994. \u201cBeekeeping is my whole life, my hobby and my business,\u201d Paschalis said.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I visited Paschalis during his apiculture class at AUA as he demonstrated for his students how to open a hive for inspection. We stood around him in a circle wearing our beekeeper\u2019s masks as he lit pine needles in the smoker and removed frames to show us the different types of bees, the eggs in their cells, and the queen. He scraped some honey from a frame and held it out to us. \u201cTaste, taste!\u201d he said. It tasted sweet, made from eucalyptus and other plants and flowers from the area. Every week, the students examine a different type of honey. This week, they examined the moisture of pine honey using a refractometer. \u201cAccording to EU standards, the percent of water in pine honey should not exceed 20%,\u201d Paschalis said. \u201cIf the honey has too much moisture, it becomes thin and will ferment. Tropical areas and places like Canada with a lot of humidity produce honey like this. Often they will buy honey from other countries and mix it with their own in order to lower the percentage of moisture. Dry climates like Greece and California produce less honey (about 15 kilos per colony compared to 50-60 kilos per colony in Canada), but the quality is better. All the honey in Greece is very thick.\u201d Paschalis and his lab have also created over 55 videos, 15-20 minutes long, to teach students the basics of beekeeping. They teach 12 groups of about 20 undergraduates every week.<\/p>\n

The year-long Apiculture program that Paschalis is implementing for NANG uses similar materials. The program offers young people with an interest in beekeeping 100 hours of theoretical and practical training. Last year, the program ran in Volos and Karditsa, and this year, it is running in Larissa, Lamia, and Aliartos. Paschalis and a team of six travel to these sites and lead four-day training sessions throughout the spring. \u201cOften, our beneficiaries are young members of beekeeping families,\u201d Paschalis said. \u201cBy the end of the program, they get a complete education in apiculture.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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