Message from @ϟϟ Damon ϟϟ
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@English N Angry you're going to love this
Imagine how much honey you can produce with a few dozen of these. No smoke, no suits, no dead bees, no rotting wood.
Yeh i seen it
Honey is expensive as well
It's a potential income source for the community, and the pollination would assist other crops. Once I get up there I imagine setting up at least a few of these low maintenance little money hives
I bee the Beekeeper of cascade
Hahaha
There are two spiritual dangers of not owning a farm. One is the danger of supposing that breakfast comes from the grocery, and the other that heat comes from the furnace.
To avoid the first danger, one should plant a garden, preferably where there is no grocer to confuse the issue.
To avoid the second, he should lay a split of good oak on the andirons, preferably where there is no furnace, and let it warm his shins while a February blizzard tosses the trees outside.
Favorite quote about living off the land
What job should I go into after A levels? Fuck going to uni I need to learn a skill
blacksmithing, carpentry
electrician
plumber
etc
Idk if I should try join the army as an officer and learn mechanics or engineering or somethign through there
has some great benefits but youre tied down to fuck
well i'm certainly joining the military
Not fighting these shill wars anyway
Can carry on with the gym and learn how to shoot regardless
those flow hives are proprietary, prone to break, and kinda crappy overall
(i love beekeeping)
if you want a rabbit hole to fall down for a while, look at michael bush's talks on beekeeping
hes a greybeard beekeeper, has a lot of thoughts on the prevelance of varroa in the late 20th century and other stuff
Thanks for the info
its fascinating
i fell down the 'i want to keep bees in general' hole a few years ago
you start reading and watching, then its like 'you must treat for varroa or else' then you are like ok, whats the best way to treat, then you eventually find michael bush and realize you and everyone else might be big dummies
colony collapse disorder, as far as anyone knows, isnt caused by one thing, but by a whole bunch of things, one of which is the varroa mite
How hard is bee keeping?
there's a solid chance that the reason varroa became so prevalent in the 80s-90s and is such an issue today, is that in the 60s-70s, they were fighting other parasites by treating with erythromycin(iirc) pretty heavy, and the varroa being less susceptable outcompeted the other parasites
its not hard at all
the hardest part about beekeeping is not going out every day and fucking with your hives
real talk
gotta let them bees be bees
the real question is, how hard is it to make a living beekeeping
(real hard)
its like, how many times can you open the oven door before the souffle falls? well lets find out