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Züchtertagung der GdeB in Berlin 2025

by Matthias Kern

Das Programm der Züchtertagung der GdeB in Berlin 2025 steht final fest.

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32. Apisticus-Tag 2025 in Münster

by Matthias Kern

Der diesjährige Apisticustag in Münster stand unter dem Motto 100 Jahre Bienenkunde und Imkerei der Landwirtschaftskammer Nordrhein-Westfalen. Daher war es selbstverständlich, dass auch unsere Buckfastimker/innen aus NRW mit einem personalstarkem Messestand vertreten waren und für unsere Buckfastbiene und deren Zucht geworben haben.

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55. Fachtagung des Österreichischen Erwerbsimkerbundes in Wels

by Matthias Kern

Auf der 55. Fachtagung des Österreichischen Erwerbsimkerbundes in Wels war die GdeB am Stand von Buckfast Österreich präsent. Varroaresistenz 2033 war auch auf den Ständen von Pietrzak-Kubiak sowie der Bienenzuchtgruppe Oberösterreich-Salzburg vertreten.

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Events

23.09.2025–27.09.2025

Apimondia

Kopenhagen, Dänemark (Bella Center)

31.10.2025–02.11.2025

07.11.2025

07.11.2025–09.11.2025

eurobee 2025

Messe Friedrichshafen (Neue Messe 1, 88046 Friedrichshafen, Deutschland)

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Die Gemeinschaft der europäischen Buckfastimker

was founded in 1976 by Günter Ries (died 1994) in Kassel. At that time, Buckfast breeding was not appreciated by scientists and beekeeping associations. Hardly anyone professed to keep the Buckfast bee. We owe today's freedom of movement first and foremost to our pioneers, above all Franz Fehrenbach and the founding members of the Kassel association. They all showed courage, commitment and straightforwardness.

Today, the Gemeinschaft der europäischen Buckfastimker (Community of European Buckfast Bee Breeders) sees itself first and foremost as a breeding association and encourages its members to carry out their own breeding work in accordance with Brother Adam's breeding method.

We are therefore fully committed to the further development of beekeeping. A lively exchange of experience at the broadest level is the best guarantee for this, because the honey bee respects neither ideological nor geographical boundaries.
At present, 15 national associations from all over Europe have joined the community. This makes the Gemeinschaft der europäischen Buckfastimker (Community of European Buckfast Bee Breeders) the largest cross-border beekeeping association in Europe!

We are the GdeB

 

The Buckfast Bee

The Buckfast bee from Brother Adam. The origin of the Buckfast bee is a cross from before 1920 between the dark, leather-brown Ligustica and the former English form of the Mellifera...

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The Community

The Community of European Buckfast Beekeepers was founded in 1976 by Günter Ries (died 1994) in Kassel.

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Dates

Here you can see all the important dates relating to the Gemeinschaft der europäischen Buckfastimker (European Buckfast Bee Breeder Association).

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