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Seems like a marketing scam to me.  All bees 'free range'  when foraging 
(except the ones that we trick into searching for things).   That central 
foraging area or 'range' extends around the location of  tree, hive, pot, or 
basket housing the bee population.
 
I guess one might argue that hives moved by beekeepers 'limit' the FREE  
range, since a person is making the decision of where the  bees are going  to 
forage.
 
One might  consider FERAL colonies to be free ranging, since they  freely 
choose their home and forage area, but harvesting honey from natural  
colonies in trees, etc. is usually destructive, both to the 'tree or house' and  to 
the bees themselves.  Doubt that destructive harvesting would be a  big 
selling  point  at a Farmer's Market.
 
Jerry
 

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