Hello from Fiji

[FijiBeek]

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
[email protected]

[divemaster1963]

welcome and hope to benifit from your knowledge.


john

[BeeMaster2]

Welcome to Beemaster.
Jim

[GSF]

Welcome

[cao]

Welcome. 

[bwallace23350]

Welcome. Glad to have such a knowledge person join us. I bet yall have some unique honey in Fiji

[divemaster1963]

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.

what type flowers and trees do they feed on and what the flavor like?

[BeeMaster2]

John,
You don,t like her or it? 😄

[divemaster1963]

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.

[bwallace23350]

 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.