Bit of a giggle

Good old Solomon.

I still think the video of his visit to Dee Lusby's yards are among the classics.

Hey, my goal is always going to be treatment free. I've just learned enough to know that 'the Bond method' isn't the way to get there. It's odd that the identity of the treatment free approach is one of 'the kindler/gentler/earth-friendly', when what defines it is the allowing of livestock to carry a human-induced parasitic condition until death or the expression of an inherent resistance - all the while, under the additional demands of providing honey and/or bees to the caregiver. Then there's the 'breeding' which is often supposedly taking place, while the beekeeper often has less than 50 hives, no I.I., open mating in an area surrounded by other bees and beekeepers - with death as the only real selector. Pretty cold approach if you think about it.

And I have thought about it. I know these things because I've been one of these well-meaning individuals and since learned enough to realize how ridiculous that is.

Treatment free remains my goal, as it is, I'm sure for most of you. I have come to believe that commercial beekeepers are the ones most likely to get us there, as they have all the bees.

That's why I became a commercial beekeeper.

Adam