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RE: 🐳 WHALESHARES: Community Challenge Entry
thanks @bushkill for the kind shout-out. I dunno about "brilliant", but I do hope some of the knowledge and experience I've accumulated over the years can help guide others from falling into at least a few potholes along their "journey"... :)
Oh yes, and bees are awesome, and I love your posts too! I think I've mentioned this to you in the past, but my grandfather in France was also a bee keeper, as my mom posted about here, "THE BUZZ ABOUT A SOCIETY OF SISTERS ".
That is cool. There was a French abbot beekeeper named Émile Warré that saved beekeeping in France in the early 1900s. There was a decline in beekeepers due to cost and he responded by testing 350 hive designs and came up with an affordable and simple hive design called "the people's hive". He wrote a book called "Beekeeping for All", which to me has more pertinent info than beekeeping books today. I haven't gotten into the controversial beekeeping post yet, but modern beekeeping has gone backwards in the last 100 years. Needless to say my opinions are not always popular with the beekeeping clubs. I'm the guy that breaks the heart of the newbies that come to beginner class wanting to be 'natural' beekeepers only to have me tell them there is nothing natural about the way we keep bees.