Was SHB, Now more queen and nuc raising
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fatshark
… what he preaches should and could be expanded to cover a entire country.
I heard his two presentations last week in NI and I concur.
Nothing he is doing is that complicated, and beekeeping in the British Isles could become sustainable and avoid the need for imports if there was a will to do so.
It is easy to make up a number of nucs equivalent to the number of full colonies you work every season and if you rear a few decent queens to queen them with then you are up and running.
The reason the commercial guys import packages and queens is that it must work out cheaper than going down the M Palmer route.
Was SHB, Now more queen and nuc raising
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fatshark
I was fortunate to again hear Michael Palmer give his Sustainable Apiary talk this weekend … what he preaches should and could be expanded to cover a entire country.
Frustratingly, a very similar sustainable apiary plan is outlined in a book which most British beekeepers (at least, the ones who've bothered to read a book at all) claim to have read -Ted Hooper's 1976 Guide to bees and Honey. Yet it still hasn't sunk in.