Kidding- but I liked your answer. I asked the question to an idiot selling
organic honey at a flea market. He had 4 back yard hives and put himself in
the position of finally saying that his bees only collected nectar from
unsprayed blooms. Smart bees!!!--
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From: Max Sanders
To: [email protected]
Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 1:41 AM
Subject: Re: CS>Re: RE: CS>honeybees & CS?
The quick and equally unclear answer is to make sure they only take nectar
and pollen from "organic" plants, while you do nothing to contribute to an
unorganic hive in your management.
To get honey certified as "organic" is as I understood it, nearly
impossible and when I was paying more attention a few years back there was only
1 company that claimed to have certified or even certifiable "organic" honey
and bee products. They were a company out of Illinois so I called them and
asked how THAT was possible and they told me all the hives they got bee
products from were located in remote areas of Canada - far enough away to be
sure, and then they tested. We sold the products in our store and while we
refused to use even formic acid in our own hives, we knew that our bees had
access to nonorganic sources.
The problem is of course is that the bees are harvesting in a radius that
goes far enough to be uncontrolable and lack certainty that th! ey have not
encountered agri-toxins.
We actually owned 100's of acres and were in the corn belt attempting to show
that it was economically feasible to plant bee plants and bee in the honey
business. We also devloped a mobil honey extraction unit, and generally had a
labor intesive blast. We mostly planted and managed clover types - so even
though we knew where most of our bees were we could not get certified "organic"
(did not care for that blessing anyway)- but we by far had the best or one of
the best quality honeys araound. Like I said the mites were our setback.
With a couple hives one can do many things and still get by as a hobby. We
were overwhelmed with 75 and we gave it heck.
Or were you kidding? Knowing the wildness of bees.....
radishes,
Maz
[email protected] wrote:
Max-how do you get your bees to make organic honey?
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