Hi John
I have no doubt that Luisa cares about bees but I do have issues with the way she is reducing (exiting according to some of her statements) her commercial beekeeping. Her call for 'heroes' to save the bees from being 'endangered' (by the 'very methods of modern beekeeping'), seeking people who would become a 'wild beekeeper' (apparently someone who has clean bee pasture and would follow the usual amateur practice of not raiding the brood box?) using bees they'd buy from her (yet those stocks are not native stock but are a Buckfast-Carnica-native mix), for a price of £300 per colony (while claiming the market value is £700 plus £100 of free tuition). Not some accounting measure of potential worth but market value?
These are not claims that are legal, decent, honest, truthful. Fair enough that her beliefs now mean that her business model is not currently viable, but she can't claim the things she's claiming unless she can prove that they are true. It is misleading for her potential bee 'heroes' who will be coming into their new hobby without the background knowledge of most of us.
Gavin