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Layers of Perception
One of our trustees, Margie, recently penned the following description of her experiences in her garden early one August morning. Early...
Aug 11, 20143 min read
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Art in Action – Growing for Bees
We promised to be in touch a little more frequently. And here’s what Rachel Hanney, sunhive maker extraordinaire, supported by Peter...
Jul 24, 20142 min read
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If Bees could speak ….
….. in a language we understand, we would live in a different world. More colourful, flowerful, more sane. We would be much helped in our...
Jul 16, 20145 min read
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Probity and Politeness
Probity: The quality of having strong moral principles; honesty and decency Politeness: Having or showing behaviour that is respectful...
Apr 21, 20144 min read
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The Wonder of Bees
If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they’ll kill you. Oscar Wilde The Wonder of Bees, is a TV series...
Apr 10, 20142 min read
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What is Natural Beekeeping
This is a question on which to seek consensus would be a fruitless endeavour, as beekeeping is something practised by humans. Yet we are...
Mar 18, 20142 min read
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Compassion and Connection
‘Compassion hurts. When you feel connected to everything, you also feel responsible for everything. And you cannot turn away.’ – Andrew...
Mar 13, 20142 min read
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A Landscape of Bee-ing
“When we step into the world of Apis mellifera, we are entering a multidimensional landscape of bee-ing” Michael Thiele * A lovely...
Feb 25, 20142 min read
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The Alchemy of Bee-ing
When we step into the world of Apis Mellifera, we are entering a multidimensional landscape of being. The life gesture of the honeybees...
Feb 1, 20143 min read
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Bees in Our Heart
Alas, our technological evolution has marched ahead of our spiritual and social evolution, making us, frankly, a dangerous people. I came...
Jan 30, 20142 min read
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Trust and Balance
We read on a frequent basis of the diminution in numbers, and in places the demise, of the honey bee. Motivated by a desire to help,...
Jan 17, 20142 min read
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The Gift of the Bee
In 1609, Charles Butler, in The Feminine Monarchy, wrote: Of all insects, the bees are chief, and worthily to be most admired; being the...
Jan 15, 20143 min read
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Epiphany
Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh. I have been pondering what they stand for, and how much they remind me of the gifts of the bees. Of the...
Jan 9, 20142 min read
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The Year Turns
Christmas is a special time of year for both humans and bees. The sun has stopped its downward journey and now begins to rise again in...
Dec 24, 20131 min read
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Bees On Mahonia
It is perhaps appropriate that one of the cultivars of Mahonia (Oregon grape) is called Winter Sun. Bees are creatures of the sun and, as...
Dec 8, 20131 min read
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Waiting for the Last Bee to Come Home
Is this not strangely moving, a sweet child, fondly watching the family’s much-loved bees returning as the sun is setting. Watching the...
Dec 4, 20131 min read
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Advent
When your spring and summer life revolves around bees, or rather, they revolve around you as each minutiae of their life is observed with...
Nov 1, 20132 min read
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As the Light fades the Pollen shines all the more
Even in the autumn, at the hive entrance, we see the bees carrying pollen into the darkness of their own home, actually of their own body...
Sep 1, 20093 min read
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