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by donstu
Mon Jan 07, 2013 6:26 pm
Forum: Beekeeping
Topic: honey bottles, going green
Replies: 1
Views: 8162

Re: honey bottles, going green

It's a play on High Five! Very cute!

If you find the source for eco friendly glassware, please share.

As for me, a few of my customers return the jar for me to re-use. It's nice when that happens.
by donstu
Mon Jan 07, 2013 6:21 pm
Forum: Beekeeping
Topic: Warre hives
Replies: 1
Views: 7947

Re: Warre hives

I have 4 Warre and will be building more soon. Currently: Lakewood, Golden, Jeff Cty and Boulder. Contact me directly and we can arrange for you to see. There are some images of Warre boxes in the Harvest part of my website, www.honeybeekeep.com. You can reach me at dstudin@yahoo.com or 303-248-6677...
by donstu
Tue Nov 20, 2012 4:59 pm
Forum: Beekeeping
Topic: Honeybee Exchange
Replies: 9
Views: 25665

Honeybee Exchange

Some folks will get to Spring with a healthy colony which needs to be split to avoid a swarm. Some of those same folks will not want an extra colony because their equipment is full. It's a colony in need of a home. Some folks will get to Spring with an empty hive. Their colony may have died for a wi...
by donstu
Tue Nov 20, 2012 4:36 pm
Forum: Beekeeping
Topic: Need a Helper? Want to Mentor?
Replies: 2
Views: 10112

Re: Need a Helper? Want to Mentor?

You might consider my program. See www.honeybeekeep.com and read about the mentor program. Contact me if you wish.

Welcome to Colorado. ... dons
by donstu
Tue Jul 31, 2012 8:15 pm
Forum: Beekeeping
Topic: Need some advice
Replies: 5
Views: 17361

Re: Need some advice

They are left behind foragers. There is no queen.
They are toast.
They could be shaken in front of another colony, but fighting may or may not result.
I would let them go.

Try again in 2013.

Best wishes ... dons
by donstu
Tue Jul 17, 2012 6:52 pm
Forum: Book Club
Topic: Words
Replies: 7
Views: 32845

Re: Words

Right from the beginning of this "green revolution" the chemical companies have been willing and able to pump us full of lovely sales promotions telling us how wonderful the chemicals are "for us" and how extensive testing has scientifically proven how safe they are. This DDT adv...
by donstu
Sun Jul 15, 2012 3:59 pm
Forum: Book Club
Topic: Words
Replies: 7
Views: 32845

Re: Words

Agreed. Further, the chemical reactions, unknown and unknowable, happen not just in the water, but in the air and in the soil ... creating things no chemist ever intended or imagined ... to have what affect is anyone's guess. The irresponsible nature of this ... the choice not to use a precautionary...
by donstu
Wed Jul 11, 2012 6:25 am
Forum: Book Club
Topic: Silent Spring – Chapter One: effective or manipulative?
Replies: 10
Views: 47487

Re: Silent Spring – Chapter One: effective or manipulative?

There are so many examples, I hardly know where to start. Consider antibiotics as an example. A chemical kills a bacteria ... some of the bacteria that is. The members of that species left alive have successfully resisted the chemical. They bring those genes to the following generations. Therefore, ...
by donstu
Tue Jul 10, 2012 12:15 pm
Forum: Book Club
Topic: Silent Spring – Chapter One: effective or manipulative?
Replies: 10
Views: 47487

Re: Silent Spring – Chapter One: effective or manipulative?

A very old saying is: power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Once you are making a lot of money on "cures" ... the built in motivation is to continue the problem such that there is demand for the cure.
by donstu
Mon Jul 09, 2012 12:59 pm
Forum: Book Club
Topic: Silent Spring – Book Club starts here on July 9th!
Replies: 12
Views: 51105

Re: The Silent Spring Book Club starts here on July 9th!

Yet another example of spirit at work ... It turns out that I am also reading a book called Sacred Economics by Charles Eisenstein in parallel with reading Silent Spring. Here's what I just read in that book today: "For someone entering adulthood in the 1960s or 1970s, it was still possible to ...