Connecting Communities: Beekeeping with Gunther Hauk

Gunther Hauk has been a biodynamic gardener and beekeeper for four decades. A former college teacher in the US (MA from the University of Tennessee), and then a Waldorf School gardening and environmental teacher for 22 years in Germany. He returned to the USA in 1996 to co-found the Pfeiffer Center for Biodynamic and Environmental Studies in Spring Valley, NY. For 11 years he taught the subject "gardening" to Foundation Year and Teacher Training classes at Sunbridge College. He has traveled throughout the USA and internationally, giving workshops and talks on Sustainable, Biodynamic Beekeeping, Gardening with Children, and Biodynamic Farming & Gardening. Since the mid-seventies he has been a beekeeper, deeply involved in researching how to keep bees in ways that would be more in harmony with their own needs, thus raising their level of vitality and health. In his book Toward Saving the Honeybee, first published 5 years before the Colony Collapse Disorder crisis, in 2002, he called for a radical change in beekeeping methods. Together with his wife Vivian, he co-founded Spikenard Farm Honeybee Sanctuary in 2006, a non-profit education and research organization located in the Blue Ridge Mountains in Floyd, Virginia.Music is Cloud Chamber by Pictures of the Floating World.