Hello All

I was recently visited by an American beekeeper who was on holidays in
Ireland. We exchanged many ideas and both believe that we learned a lot from
each other.

One of the points made by my American colleague was that he made more out of
selling beeswax based products than he made from selling honey. He advised
me to consider selling beeswax products.

It occurs to me that the limiting factor in this type of product is the
amount of beeswax one can harvest from each hive. Has anybody considered it
an advantage to get the bees to build comb for the sake of the beeswax only,
say in much the same way as we can get bees to produce propolis for its own
sake?. This may be a hairbrained thought but I felt that I should air it and
see what transpires.

Any comments welcome

Sincerely

Tom Barrett
49 South Park, Foxrock
Dublin 18
Ireland
Tel + 353 1 289 5269