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…