After keeping bees for a decade I was astounded to find within a days drive of my home an isolated 
group of beekeepers who have no varroa/tracheal mites and no AFB. They have a pool of about 150 
hives of a Buckfast/Carniolan cross and have cooperatively work together to keep nonlocal bees out.

So I'm thinking of starting a small apiary in this area by purchasing bees from this group and laying 
the ground work for organic certification. The area is sparsely populated and the land free from ag 
and or industrial chemicals so I have the basic ingredients to go organic in this apiary without 
pushing the envelope of the definition organic.

Here is the only credible source of organic foundation I found online. 

http://beeswax.co.nz/index.php?page=orgcomb

I wonder what the response would be if I purchased a pallet and offered for sale the surplus I did not 
need? 

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