New - March 2011 Bee Ramblings

BjornBee · February 22, 2011, 09:18:06 AM

I have posted the March 2011 beekeeper rambling article for those that enjoy reading these.....

http://www.bjornapiaries.com/beekramblings2011.html

Hope you enjoy. ;)

Humanbeeing · February 22, 2011, 07:24:44 PM

Superb article Mike. I respect your honesty and down to earthyness. I have read your website and I think your approach to queen rearing is spot on. I hope to interact with the NSQBA some day.

I make it a point to stay out of institutions and industries. Perhaps because I will never fit into either, and never have. My approach is to keep my bees as far away from modern agriculture as possible. A few hives here, a few hives there, somewhere up in the mountains, among the wild flowers, adss up to a lot of hives if you hustle. Without the pesticides, I will keep healthy bees, until the day I die. Even if they have gone out of vogue, been phased out, or just aren't needed any longer. But, when it comes to that point, the entire ecosystem will have already collapsed.

Great read, Thank you.

bullship · February 22, 2011, 08:34:45 PM

Bjorn;
I enjoy your rants and really agree with the ideas, but.
2,4-D and roundup are totally different the only likeness is they both kill weeds and are chemicals.
Ridge till and no till are excellent preventers of erosion and soil loss but the chemicals used with these practices really suck!!
Bullship:

backyard warrior · February 22, 2011, 09:01:13 PM

Mike i really dont like what you have to say it maybe true someday but i surely hope you are wrong in what you say but afterall all of your ramblings make us think what if and i enjoy them they are educational on lots of levels nonetheless :mrgreen:

BjornBee · February 22, 2011, 09:28:15 PM

Quote from: bullship on February 22, 2011, 08:34:45 PM
Bjorn;
I enjoy your rants and really agree with the ideas, but.
2,4-D and roundup are totally different the only likeness is they both kill weeds and are chemicals.
Ridge till and no till are excellent preventers of erosion and soil loss but the chemicals used with these practices really suck!!
Bullship:

Thank you...I was not real clear on 2,4-D and roundup. The article talks about 2,4-D being combined with other gulphosates like roundup. I had to read the article a few times. But your right, they are talking about combining these two, and I somehow read it to be the same.

BjornBee · February 22, 2011, 11:15:21 PM

Quote from: Humanbeeing on February 22, 2011, 07:24:44 PM
Superb article Mike. I

Great read, Thank you.

Thank you very much. ;)

T Beek · February 23, 2011, 08:32:44 AM

Thanks BjornBee; Having spent some time in S/E Asia (four trips over the last 40 years), I could talk about the distructive nature of 2, 4, D and its many related chemicals for days. There are places in Vietnam right now, where earthworms still can't survive exposure to the soil, much less grow anything, babies are still afflicted with birth defects 40 years after the spraying stopped. Want some on your garden ;)?

thomas

VolunteerK9 · February 23, 2011, 02:43:46 PM

Quote from: T Beek on February 23, 2011, 08:32:44 AM
Thanks BjornBee; Having spent some time in S/E Asia (four trips over the last 40 years), I could talk about the distructive nature of 2, 4, D and its many related chemicals for days. There are places in Vietnam right now, where earthworms still can't survive exposure to the soil, much less grow anything, babies are still afflicted with birth defects 40 years after the spraying stopped. Want some on your garden ;)?

thomas

Learned something else today.

I never knew that 2-4-D was half the chemical component of Agent Orange.