A questionnaire for beekeepers
If you are a beekeeper, or thinking of becoming one, or you can answe some of these questions on behalf of a beekeeper, I would very muc appreciate your replies.
I?m a little hesitant to say why I?ve created this questionnaire, bu I?d consider it a bit rude not to. I?m a product design student and I? working on a new hive design. I?m hesitant because many beekeepers hav said to me ?we don?t need a new design, what we have is fine.? And hav told me I?m wasting my time. I wish more people thought like that abou such things as motor cars, mobile phones, and fitted kitchens, we?d b a lot better off. My thinking is that with the problems of CCD, if could get a few more people interested in beekeeping with a ?flashy hive design it probably wouldn?t be a bad thing.
Ok, sorry, rant over, please answer as many questions as you can. Al other comments are welcomed. Thankyou.
- Are you a)male or b)female?
- What is your age? a)20 b)20-30 c)30-40 d)40-50 e)50-60 f)60-70 g)70
- Where do you live? a)Urban area b)Rural area c)Semi-rura area
- Where do you keep your hives? a)Orchard b)Private Garden c)Roo garden d)Shared garden e)Farmland f)Elsewhere ? please specify
- How many hives do you keep?
- Do you regard beekeeping as a a)Profession b)Hobby c)Somewher in-between
- Which best describes your view of the bees a)pet or b)farm animal
- Do you keep other animals? If so, what?
- Do you have other pets? If so, what?
- Please order these aspects of beekeeping in importance fo yourself. Feel free to add some others if I have missed them. I am no a beekeeper (though I am thinking of giving it a go when I finish Uni they are fascinating creatures now I?ve taken time to learn abou them), so please excuse my ignorance. a)Honey, Propolis, Royal Jell etc b)Pollination c)Enjoyment d)Farming e)Relaxation f)Socia ? BKA meets g)Skil
-- wesleyn