Bob:
I can relate fully to what you say.

For if I/we too were to want to start today, to redo what
we have done, we would not have the time to do so again.

This is probably why we try to help so many others now
coming up.

Yet, Bob we only have wanted to retool about a 1,000 to
1,200 colonies or so, to avoid the usage of treatments. But
feeling our way thru the problem has been going on for more
then 2 decades now: Namely, how to keep running our
honeybees without the usage of treatments.

We consume a lot of honey by the way in our diet by not
using sugar, and by the way I cook. Just cannot put the
treated stuff into our mouths for some reason.

But we could never do another 20+ years starting today, for
it would then put us into our 80s trying to get done, and I
shutter to think if 1,000 colonies means so long a time
then what will bigger beekeepers go thru, even now with the
foundations available we have been making by hand for so
long.

Pun for saying it to you. Maybe! but it's also something
that you have to think about when commercial too now I
would say, just in case we are right. For the worse isn't
over yet in straightening the bees out, until they are
turned around for living clean.

Then we can all eat healthy and unafraid.

Regards,

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





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