What makes a beekeeper - a special beekeeper?

[Eric McArthur]

Hi All
Google "Gloria Havenhand and be inspired

Eric

[chris]

Hi Eric. Any particular link in mind? I don't have the time to read all that google offered!!

[Eric McArthur]

Hi Eric. Any particular link in mind? I don't have the time to read all that google offered!!

Hi Chris
You'll find the lady here:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/you/...ure-honey.html

Regards

Eric

[Mellifera Crofter]

Eric,

I followed the link from the article you mentioned to Gloria's own website and I just wonder - why does she call her honey 'bio-active antibacterial honey'? Is her honey any different from honey produced by any of us who cold-filter our honey? Isn't that title a bit of a con? I think it would have been better, and more honest, if she had just said that her honey is cold-filtered and explained why that is preferable. Also, what exactly does 'bio-active' mean?

Kitta

[gavin]

She need to be careful with the health claims she is making. Prostate troubles, psoraisis - really?! One you get to the 'Einstein' bit you know you are dealing with hyperbole and lazy journalism ... but I suppose it is the Daily Mail after all.

Gavin

[Eric McArthur]

Hi Gavin

Don't give up your day job!

She need to be careful with the health claims she is making. Prostate troubles, psoraisis - really?! One you get to the 'Einstein' bit you know you are dealing with hyperbole and lazy journalism ... but I suppose it is the Daily Mail after all.
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She (needs) to be careful with the health claims she is making. Prostate troubles, psoraisis (psoriasis) - really?! (Once) you get to the 'Einstein' bit you know you are dealing with hyperbole and lazy journalism ... but I suppose it is the Daily Mail after all.
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Throwing stones and glass houses springs to mind!

Regards

Eric

[Eric McArthur]

Hi Kitta

Don't shoot the messenger! Write and tell her to get her act together!

Eric

[gavin]

So you are saying now that she (Gloria Havenhand) is both inspirational *and* needs to get her act together? You were more than just a messenger, you were asking us to be inspired by drivel, and a claiming that she was a 'special beekeeper'!

[Trog]

Apparently she's so special her bees don't have varroa ... in England???? She has to wear 3 layers of trousers and use gaffer tape anywhere the bees might get in? What on earth sorts of bees is she keeping, I wonder? Or is it the way she handles them?

On the other hand, this is a reporter's blurb and I've seen for myself this month what someone who is not into bees can make of what a beekeeper says, so maybe she's not making all the claims the article thinks she is. I hope.

[Calum]

A good beekeeper keeps their bees in good health and alive, they also select and raise good quality queens.
A special beekeeper also inspires people to become beekeepers and inspires beekeepers to become good beekeepers.
Boring answer but its mine.
Must say I was not impressed with the link supplied - at least some of the assertations in the article are BS making the whole message void for me.
A little exaduration I can accept but mixed with crap it is unpalatable.

Gloria, who becomes a veritable bee-whisperer, almost sweet-talking her bees to keep them calm. ‘But I still wear my helmet, three pairs of trousers, three jumpers, with gaffer tape around the tops of my boots and at the edge of my gloves.’
- hahaha lmao cant be very good at stock selection if she has to wear 3 pairs of trousers. And must be really special if she is so afraid of the benifits of bee venom that she uses gaffer tape- great advertisement for the gentle art of beekeeping...

Eric I assume you mean special in a special way?