In a message dated 25/08/2004 05:02:10 GMT Standard Time,
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> Beekeeping is local may be the best claim of all beekeeping and that
> is why I subscribe to beekeepers keeping bees locally with local stock if
> not their very own stock. This can be disputed but I may as well give up
> beekeeping right now if beekeeping is not local.
>
BIBBA, the Bee Improvement and Bee Breeders' Association has suffered several
name changes over the years.  It started out 40 years ago as the Village Bee
Breeders' Association as its founder, Beowolf Cooper, posthumous author of The
Honeybees of the British Isles, noticed that each village had its own strain
of bees.

Chris

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