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MEMBER BULLETIN BOARD => GREETINGS/TELL US ABOUT YOURSELF => Topic started by: FijiBeek on September 19, 2016, 08:58:15 PM

Title: Hello from Fiji
Post by: FijiBeek on September 19, 2016, 08:58:15 PM
By way of introduction, my name is John Caldeira and I have been working with honey bees for more than 35 years now.  Raised in New York, I was exposed to honey bees while working on an apple farm.  I bought my own hives in Texas after finishing university around 1980. 

Served as a Peace Corps volunteer developing beekeeping in Fiji 1985-1987, returned to the U.S. for my business career but always kept bees on a hobby level.  Worked numerous USAID beekeeping and agri-business development projects in Eastern Europe, Central Asia, Africa and the Caribbean over the years.  Semi-retired to a farm in Fiji in 2008 where I remain today.

I am a fruit farmer (citrus, mango and avocado, mostly), enjoy fishing and developing beekeeping in Fiji.

John Caldeira, President
Fiji Beekeepers Association
PO Box 224, Rakiraki, Ra
Fiji
+679-907-1247
john@outdoorplace.org
Title: Re: Hello from Fiji
Post by: divemaster1963 on September 19, 2016, 10:20:46 PM
welcome and hope to benifit from your knowledge.


john
Title: Re: Hello from Fiji
Post by: BeeMaster2 on September 19, 2016, 11:29:55 PM
Welcome to Beemaster.
Jim
Title: Re: Hello from Fiji
Post by: GSF on September 20, 2016, 04:27:51 PM
Welcome
Title: Re: Hello from Fiji
Post by: cao on September 20, 2016, 10:05:56 PM
Welcome.  :happy:
Title: Re: Hello from Fiji
Post by: bwallace23350 on September 22, 2016, 10:00:35 AM
Welcome. Glad to have such a knowledge person join us. I bet yall have some unique honey in Fiji
Title: Re: Hello from Fiji
Post by: divemaster1963 on September 22, 2016, 08:02:09 PM
Quote from: bwallace23350 link=topic =49167.msg427900#msg427900 date=1474549235
Welcome. Glad to have such a knowledge person join us. I bet yall have some unique honey in Fiji

My wife loves the fiji water. but it dont like her. :shocked:

what type flowers and trees do they feed on and what the flavor like?
Title: Re: Hello from Fiji
Post by: BeeMaster2 on September 22, 2016, 08:14:50 PM
John,
You don,t like her or it? 😄
Title: Re: Hello from Fiji
Post by: divemaster1963 on September 22, 2016, 08:18:06 PM
she said it goes right thru her. me i think its water like a great atiesan well i had on my last homestead. just can't justify the high price of it.
Title: Re: Hello from Fiji
Post by: bwallace23350 on September 26, 2016, 09:22:26 AM
 Hello from Fiji
? Reply #8 on: September 22, 2016, 08:18:06 PM ?

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she said it goes right thru her. me i think its water like a great atiesan well i had on my last homestead. just can't justify the high price of it.



I have grown up on well water and at times find it hard to drink anything from the tap unless cold cold.