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allen dick <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 12 Nov 2003 22:26:04 -0700
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> Self sufficient I think can be a good thing, I
> myself do not want SHB to make it to Alaska and if beekeepers up here
> were more self sufficient in the past we probably would never had
> gotten Vorroa. It's to late for Varroa but we still have time to
> prevent SHB from entering.

In Alaska, I doubt that any of that really matters, since I'm assuming that
beekeeping is pretty small scale, and there are no livelihoods at stake.

Where beekeeping is a business, varroa and SHB are just minor problems to
deal with, and less threatening than being cut off from economically
important supplies.

Self-sufficiency is a concept that went out with subsistence farming.
Self-sufficiency sounds romantic, but it often means deprivation.  We are
now interdependant with, and competing with, the world.   Usually the
advantages outweight the downsides, and the result is an elevated standard
of living that allows us time for hobbies, and time to dream about that
perfect world where we would be totally self-reliant.

All in a day's work.

allen
http://www.honeybeeworld.com

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