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Re: Open Source Beehives
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randy oliver <[log in to unmask]>
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Informed Discussion of Beekeeping Issues and Bee Biology <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 13 Nov 2013 08:15:15 -0800
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>It is typical of today's novice beekeeper, in that it is not enough that

> they aspire to learn to keep bees, they approach the task convinced before
> reading the first book on the subject that they can "save" the bees from
> the
> stupidity of all current beekeepers by abandoning some large swath of the
> practices and/or equipment that has seemed to be useful for the past 200 or
> so years, replacing it with something that is a minor variant of a concept
> unjustly rejected by beekeepers several times over the past decades
>

The above is also a lament of mine; Jim spoke it more eloquently than I
ever could!

-- 
Randy Oliver
Grass Valley, CA
www.ScientificBeekeeping.com

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