{"id":348,"date":"2015-03-28T10:28:18","date_gmt":"2015-03-28T10:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.degoederaat.nl\/dir\/?page_id=348"},"modified":"2023-01-04T17:46:33","modified_gmt":"2023-01-04T17:46:33","slug":"the-skeps","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.degoederaat.nl\/dir\/the-skeps\/","title":{"rendered":"The Skeps"},"content":{"rendered":"

All skeps are made of straw, that is bind together with cane (rattanpalm) or with splitted roots, sometimes also with splitted willow and splitted bramble.<\/p>\n

I use mainly 3 types:<\/p>\n

\"Beeskep,<\/a>
Skep of the L\u00fcneburg Heath, with over 5 cm strong walls of straw, bind together with cane and split roots<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The old round skep, in my case the variaty of the L\u00fcneburg Heath, with walls over 5 cm strong, and mainly coiled with splitted roots. Some of them are of the period before 1850, most of them are made between 1850 and 1930 except the ones I made.<\/p>\n

The second type is the so called Kanitzskep, but it is in fact a modification, made by the beekeepers in the neighbourhood of Hermannsburg, that is some miles north of the beautiful town Celle in Germany in the Southern part of the L\u00fcneburg Heath (that is nowaday mainly wood- and farmland)<\/p>\n

\"Kanitzskep,<\/a>
Round Skeps of the L\u00fcneburg typ and Kanitzskeps of Hermannsburg together in a shelter near the heath.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This skep is rectangular, and when heather is blooming, it gets a super or honeybox, also made of straw, with  wooden frames in which the bees can build fresh combs for combhoneyproduction.
\nThis skep is made from the years 1925 til 1955. They are mainly coiled with cane. Here below you can see a video with some shots of a beekeeper in the fiftees of last century, that works with this type of skeps.<\/p>\n

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