"Elaine Parrish" > wrote

> You may well be correct in all the points you made. I've only known 2
> beekeepers, both elderly men and neither a commercial farmer, and both
> more than 30 years ago.

We used to have a professional beekeeper here on rfc, I
wonder how she's doing, from time to time. She had interesting
stories about travelling around with their hives, and selling their
honey to the big ... honey buyers.

She went by the name busybee.

nancy