A Sunday with bees: Beekeeper shares his world
Rakesh Gupta conducts a workshop on beekeeping in Sunder Nursery.
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Article Author: A Sunday with bees: Beekeeper shares his world
Media Source: Civil Society (India)
Date: 4 January 2022
Rakesh Gupta, a 62-year-old beekeeper from Lucknow in India, travels with his beehive-boxes across the country. He migrates with them to orchards in Kashmir, the coasts of Gujarat, the high altitudes of Himachal Pradesh, to Uttarakhand and to Rajasthan. Golden Hive Foundation and Gupta are working with the Aga Khan Trust for…
Rakesh Gupta, a 62-year-old beekeeper from Lucknow in India, travels with his beehive-boxes across the country. He migrates with them to orchards in Kashmir, the coasts of Gujarat, the high altitudes of Himachal Pradesh, to Uttarakhand and to Rajasthan. Golden Hive Foundation and Gupta are working with the Aga Khan Trust for Culture at Sunder Nursery to help keep the bees in the nursery safe and thriving. They are creating a healthy bee ecosystem with artificial hives and natural hives below the ground. Gupta highlights the need of abundant flora for bees. The foundation manages a small demonstrative apiary and creates awareness about the depleting population of bees. In October last year, Gupta held a workshop called ‘Know the Bee’ at Sunder Nursery to raise awareness on the vital role played by bees as pollinators in the ecosystem. A diverse audience attended the workshop. They ranged from people who study insect behaviour and volunteers interested in apiaries from Give Me Trees Trust to bankers, engineers, and writers.