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Getbig Main Boards => General Topics => Topic started by: Meso_z on March 05, 2012, 09:36:27 AM
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Im thinking of giving it a try.. for hobby firstly and then slowly proceed into extracting honey for sale.
And maybe export into other countries.
Opinions please
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Whatever you say honey.
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If I could just leave my body for a night
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You'd best first watch 'Ulee's Gold.' Dangerous occupation, oh my brother.
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fuckin hate bees.
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Sure, I made all my money in honey. You'll grow rich beyond your wildest dreams!
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Great hobby.
Lots of interesting books on the subject, especially some books from the turn of the 20th century, available on Amazon.
I wish Amazon had been around when I got into it, as the best books are pretty much the top 5 listed there.
Raw honey with cappings + ACV = health and longevity.
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One distant family friend does this.
All I know is that he looks like epic nerd !
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I kept reading this as "bookkeeping". Then I wondered why people were talking about honey? I'm a moron.
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it's very common these days. All of the kids are doing it.
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Expect a cease and desist letter from Vince Goodrum's prestigious and high priced lawyer. >:( ;D
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very common among serial killers.
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You could also grow a cool bee beard -
(http://amishamerica.com/images/bee-beard.jpg). (http://cdn2.holytaco.com/wp-content/uploads/images/2009/11/bee_beard_lg.jpg).
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Sure, I made all my money in honey. You'll grow rich beyond your wildest dreams!
Dogsitting's a good one as well.
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Raise Agave bees. Agave syrup tastes better than honey.
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My grandfather raised honey bees. Scared the crap out of me. He also had orange groves, so I guess it would've been orange blossom honey.
From what I understand, to reap the health benefits of honey, it should come from a source relatively local to you.
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Dogsitting's a good one as well.
True, but if they're only little you need one for each cheek.
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You used to be able to get supplies from Sears...I bet the Tractor Supply would have something.
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I bee keeping your mom satisfied on a consistent basis
;D
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Expect a cease and desist letter from Vince Goodrum's prestigious and high priced lawyer. >:( ;D
:D
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You could also grow a cool bee beard -
(http://amishamerica.com/images/bee-beard.jpg). (http://cdn2.holytaco.com/wp-content/uploads/images/2009/11/bee_beard_lg.jpg).
Epic beards.............man!
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You are teh gayest.
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This is the gayest thread on an internet forum about muscle men in xxxs thongs, oiled up, pumped and dancing to our visual leisure.
You are teh gayest.
Thanks for the gay insight, "Meatoholic".
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Thanks for the gay insight, "Meatoholic".
What type of meat do you suppose is his favorite variety?
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What type of meat do you suppose is his favorite variety?
Sausages.
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None of your beeswax.
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Great Hobby or side line business...but wouldn't go for it full time. Very hard work, big risk due to disease & pesticides, You have to migrate with huge trucks etc. My dad does it on the side and it's quite profitable once you have all your equipment. Buy second hand equipment if you can...
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I knew a girl who evertime someone said "fuckin' A" she'd say "Fuck a B, it's got two holes." She didn't keep any bees but she sure loved a deep dicking.
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Stevie Vai is a beekeeper.. just a little fyi
http://www.spinner.com/2009/11/24/steve-vai-discusses-his-beekeeping-hobby/
Hard rocker Steve Vai has a soft side -- he's a beekeeper. The guitar virtuoso happened upon the unlikely honey hobby when a swarm of bees in his neighbor's wall beautified his wife's garden. "I wanted to plant these fruit trees and I did some research and found that honeybees are really a fantastic way to pollinate so I just got a hive," he says. "I called up my local beekeeper and he brought me a wild swarm and I put in a colony."
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http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/04/us-france-bees-idUSBRE8930MQ20121004
Blue and green honey makes French beekeepers see red
(Reuters) - Bees at a cluster of apiaries in northeastern France have been producing honey in mysterious shades of blue and green, alarming their keepers who now believe residue from containers of M&M's candy processed at a nearby biogas plant is the cause.
Since August, beekeepers around the town of Ribeauville in the region of Alsace have seen bees returning to their hives carrying unidentified colorful substances that have turned their honey unnatural shades.
Mystified, the beekeepers embarked on an investigation and discovered that a biogas plant 4 km (2.5 miles) away has been processing waste from a Mars plant producing M&M's, bite-sized candies in bright red, blue, green, yellow and brown shells.
Asked about the issue, Mars had no immediate comment.
The unsellable honey is a new headache for around a dozen affected beekeepers already dealing with high bee mortality rates and dwindling honey supplies following a harsh winter, said Alain Frieh, president of the apiculturists' union.
Agrivalor, the company operating the biogas plant, said it had tried to address the problem after being notified of it by the beekeepers.
"We discovered the problem at the same time they did. We quickly put in place a procedure to stop it," Philippe Meinrad, co-manager of Agrivalor, told Reuters.
He said the company had cleaned its containers and incoming waste would now be stored in a covered hall.
Mars operates a chocolate factory near Strasbourg, around 100 km (62 miles) away from the affected apiaries.
Bee numbers have been rapidly declining around the world in the last few years and the French government has banned a widely used pesticide, Cruiser OSR, that one study has linked to high mortality rates.
France is one of the largest producers of honey within the European Union, producing some 18,330 tonnes annually, according to a recent audit conducted for national farm agency FranceAgriMer.
Ribeauville, situated on a scenic wine route southwest of Strasbourg, is best known for its vineyards. But living aside winemakers are about 2,400 beekeepers in Alsace who tend some 35,000 colonies and produce about 1,000 tonnes of honey per year, according to the region's chamber of agriculture.
As for the M&M's-infused honey, union head Frieh said it might taste like honey, but there the comparison stopped.
"For me, it's not honey. It's not sellable."
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I bee keeping your mom satisfied on a consistent basis
;D
ah HAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHHAHAAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
nice.
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.. and i think falconry seems far more awesome.
(http://www.lifalconry.com/nysfws/Gallagher%20Peregrine.jpg)
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Whatever you say honey.
None of your beeswax.
;D
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The blue honey looks like paint.
http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/10/05/french-bees-produce-blue-honey/
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Raise Agave bees. Agave syrup tastes better than honey.
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