Tuesday, May 5, 2015


We have been programmed to believe that exploitation is "good business."  Maybe the honeybees are sick of being slaves? Maybe industrial beekeeping, moving bees around to pollinate crops hundreds of miles away, and other standard beekeeping practices that we have been conditioned to think are the RIGHT WAY are actually NOT to their LIKING?

Something to ponder: ETHICS OVER PROFITS and PRODUCT

WHAT DO THE BEES THINK ABOUT CONVENTIONAL VS. NATURAL BEEKEEPING PRACTICES?

http://www.naturalbeekeepingtrust.org/Bee-centred-vs-conventional-beekeeping





Wednesday, April 22, 2015



FLOW NO!

 Convenience for the beekeeper but not for the bees. 


I really wanted to get on board with this idea, but for me, beekeeping is for them more than for me. Although you are not opening up the entire hive, you are still breaking the comb which they then have to repair every time you extract your honey, and I suspect for lazy beekeepers who just want honey, it will be a novel idea to keep extracting while not actually seeing the stress that it causes inside. I believe it is best to leave them alone and let them do their thing. Making comb is part of their process and I don't think we should mess with it. The less we interfere, I think, the better.



http://www.milkwood.net/2015/02/26/going-flow-flow-hive-actually-good-idea/ 


"It’s the same with chickens! If you put a chicken in a small cage and do not let it move so that all it does is eat and lay…. you get more eggs.
We seem to be deciding as a society, however, that for chickens, ethics may come before profits."




Monday, April 20, 2015

Thousands of acres of native wildflowers have been replaced by chemical laden monocultures, eliminating the diversity and nutrition that the bees (and other species -- and people) depend on. 

 http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/news/article1545750.ece

http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/news/article1545750.ece
Looks like a beautiful field of corn, right? Wrong! It is GMO corn grown with mega chemicals and used for bio-fuel or cattle feed. Totally inedible to us, and a total waste of time, energy, resources, and the environment -- and is killing the soil. It is because of THIS and other "experimental" industrial farming practices that bees and other species are dying off.

BEE AWARE

Things are NOT always what they seem.