Steve Noble wrote:
> I look at those pictures I see healthy almond trees but I can’t help 
> getting the feeling that I am looking at a system of agriculture that is so 
> at odds with nature that it runs a real risk of suffering the same kind of 
> calamity that seems to have befallen at least some migratory beekeepers.  
>   
Some reality. We have been farming like this for many decades only the 
crops are different. Think wheat. Agriculture and beekeeping are by 
their practice, no matter how small, are "at odds with nature". I have 
yet to find movable frames in a feral colony.

If we really wanted not to be at odds with nature, we would all be buck 
naked. Since I know some on this list by sight, I shudder at the thought.

Bill Truesdell
Bath, Maine

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