Mark writes:
Why don't Dee and Ed Lusby have them?

Reply:
Because with all the work we have been doing to retool a
commercial operation back to clean sustainable field
management without any treatments at all for mite control,
you cannot do it using TBHs commercially for production, or
migratory work for pollenation to feed a nation. 

Also this isn't africa here in the USA where you can hang
hives in trees where ever you want, nor hire workers to
take care of them as cheap either. Though they are cheaper
to handmake, and can initially get a beekeeper into
sustainable beekeeping with mite control feasibility.

 So for hobbyists it is okay, and some sideliners with
plenty of time wanting cut-comb honey. But to go
bigger.....then the game changes,and beekeepers have to
think about what they want to do.

Respectfully submitted,

Dee A. Lusby
Small Cell Commercial Beekeeper
Moyza, Arizona
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/organicbeekeepers/





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