The Quest for The Perfect Hive

Article first published as The Quest for The Perfect Hive on Technorati. Back in my Mom’s hippie days she subscribed to Mother Earth News and I was taken with the idea of finding 50 acres and living the Organic Life. One of my top interests was keeping bees. Over the years the idea of getting a bee hive has tickled my imagination, but I have never quite gotten around to it. Bees were big news not too long ago because of the mysterious affliction known as Colony Collapse Disorder-which seems to have been traced to the use of tobacco genes…

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