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Date: | Mon, 6 Aug 2001 18:05:13 -0500 |
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I have been reading the comments about pollen with great interest. For several years I collected pollen from 50 hives on the Kona side of Hawaii. Depending on the rainfall, this area produced huge amounts of pollen. When the Ekoa was blooming I could collect 2 lbs a week, per hive of beautiful white pollen. In my opinion pollen is neither the taste sensation some people are discribing nor the "bitter" chalk that was also mentioned. Although I liked eating it, I was more fond of selling it!
We never dried any of our pollen. We ran it through a seed cleaner and then picked it clean with tweezers. It went directly into the freezer. We vaccuum sealed it and sold it to the local Hawaiian health food stores for $12.95 a pound! It was a money-maker.
Walter might want to contact Randall and see if he is using the traps I sold him when I left Hawaii.
Recently I bought 45 traps for $6.00 each here in Minnesota with the intention of re-entering the pollen business. I will be pulling honey and putting traps on this week and next. Hopefully I can recapture that market here, but it seems unlikely that the harvest and the sales will be the same in sparsely populated N. Minnesota, but we will see.
Mark
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