Originally Posted by
Jon
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.
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