On 31-Jul-08, at 8:45 PM, Bill Lord wrote: > > Any, and I mean ANY help or ideas appreciated > > Hi Bill and all I love this topic because my family and I lived in northwest Nigeria for 2 years. African peoples are very resourceful and can do so much with so little. We didn't have any beekeepers near us but lots of honey bees. Normal honey collection was from wild hives and was very destructive to both the hive and the quality of the honey. The use of TBH would be an improvement. I have thought that a TBH would be a perfect match for comb honey production. The problem is that convincing customers to try comb honey is not easy. Western rural societies used comb honey almost exclusively in the early 20th century because extractors were not locally available or too expensive as in Africa today. Why not try encouraging local consumption of comb honey while working on cleaning up the extracted honey. In the end you will have two quality products in demand. My comb honey sales increase every year as people try it or find out that I have it available. Bob Darrell Caledon Ontario Canada 44N80W formally New Bussa, Niger State, Nigeria, West Africa, 10N5E **************************************************** * General Information About BEE-L is available at: * * http://www.honeybeeworld.com/bee-l/default.htm * ****************************************************