Beekeeping

Beekeeping

Since the first centuries of the Common Era people living in forests also relied heavily on beekeeping as a form of community life. Hollow tree beekeeping was popular in Lithuania up until the 16th c. and flourished in the 16th and the first half of the 17th c. Forest owners had their own bees, kept by peasants, referred to as hollow tree bee-keepers. Hollow tree beekeeping was also popular in the early 20th c., yet since the 16th c. beekeeping gradually moved to farms and bee hives.

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Presented by Master Sigitas Gadliauskas