Hi David R.,
Just kidding about the honey :-). I have heard a
lot about manuka honey, but not the others you mention.
The mites are a problem everywhere I hear. I know you are probably right
about the price on the CMS unit, but let me
know when you get any info.
Thanks,
David Cruse
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Reid" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <biofuel@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2001 10:23 PM
Subject: Re: [biofuel] The MN Way
> Hi David,
> Thanks. Have sent them an e-mail saying I wouldnt mind
some
> information and an indicative price in due course but no hurry. Dont think
> it will be too cheap somehow.
> O.T.We certainly had some of the best honey in the world here and there
was
> a multimillion dollar business exporting queen bees all over the world
> particularly to the northern hemisphere because we had none of the
diseases
> that most northern hemisphere countries have until last year until the
> varroa bee mite was introduced either accidentally or deliberately. The
> feeling is that it may have been deliberate but without any smoking gun
who
> is to say. I have just opened the local paper which has just been
delivered
> asI came in and there on the front page is an article titled Feeling sting
> of varroa bee mite.
> Some of our native flora honeys are delicious with ones like manuka having
> very strong proven anti-viral and other health benefits. As a result the
> price for this type of honey has hit the roof in comparison to what it
used
> to be with most going to health food pharmacy shops overseas. If you get
a
> chance try it and I am sure you will really enjoy it.(a liquid honey so
very
> different to a lot of white clover honey which tastes as if it has wax in
it
> by comparison. Red clover is a lot better. Others that are really nice are
> Pohutakawa (our native Xmas tree which grows round the coast with dark
green
> leaves and which flowers with a bright red flower right on Xmas. Very
> beautiful) and Rata (another native that starts out as a vine in the bush
> proper being a saphrophyte and which turns into a massive tree, again with
a
> flower very similar to Pohutakawa Travelling around NZ in the bush areas
> around Xmas time again, although this one flowers for a much longer time,
> one is impressed by the sheer beauty of these. There is quite a number of
> honey gift packs made up of various honeys available and they are sent all
> over the world.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: david e cruse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <biofuel@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Friday, May 18, 2001 10:22 AM
> Subject: Re: [biofuel] The MN Way
>
>
> > Hi David R.,
> >
> > Nothing yet on the price David. I think their plans
> > are for the fourth quarter, if they don`t make that date
> > it will be spring 2002. It would be an extremely good
> > unit to go with biodiesel as the fuel. What`s amazing
> > about the whole thing is that the entire unit is being
> > built with widely and readily available on the shelf
> > components ! Got to hand it to those UK chaps
> > from Canada, a real sharp bunch ! Must be those
> > "Northern Lights" . I have to say also that they have
> > the best honey in the world so far ! I haven`t had any honey from New
> > Zealand yet and I hear the bees there make
> > a great honey.
> >
> > David C.
> >
>
>
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