On Wed, 2 May 2007 08:48:38 -0400, Eric Brown <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>>Did I Say Anything About Organic?  I don't think so.
>
>No, you didn't use the word organic, and perhaps it's a good word to
>avoid.  Implicitly and explicitly you talked about success, though.

I wrote about exactly what I wrote about, and chose my words exceeedingly 
carefully.  

If you choose to use my ideas as a springboard to a different subject and 
go on a tangent, then fine and good, but please do not argue with things I 
did not say or imply and attribute them to me.  Please go back and read 
what I wrote and what you werote and think about it.  

> Implicitly and explicitly you talked about success, though.

Of course I did.  Commercial success over time is the gold standard, and 
commercial activity is one of the main reasons that honey bees are 
tolerated, considered important,and worried about greatly throughout the 
US.

There are -- and always have been as far as I can tell -- far too many 
romantics, posers and pretenders in beekeeping who like a good story 
better than hard truth, do a great job of hoodwinking large followings, 
mostly for personal glory as far as I can tell.  The criteria I gave weeds 
out most, but not all of that group.

Organic (there I said the word), non-organic, slave to the chemical 
industry, or whatever, I don't care.  RML. I asked how many people don't 
have to worry about mixing combs from brood to supers, and don't have to 
worry about checking regularly for mites or scheduling other important 
tasks around mite considerations and treatments.

I know that Dee is in that small, exclusive, group, and respect her 
greatly, but am not sure that she qualifies on the other criteria I gave. 

She is a good cook, though, and an excellent hostess.  I recommend that 
anyone invited take her up on that invitation post haste (Peter?).  I'm 
not sure the summer is when you want to be there.

See http://www.honeybeeworld.com/Lusby/ for a glimpse.

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