Apiary Joins Farming and Artist Communities

By Emma Orlow, Food Tank

Today, Honey Fingers, the Melbourne-based apiary run by architect Nic Dowse, carries the torch for artists interested in honey with a space for this growing community.

The Seasonal Beekeeper

By Brian Miller, South Roane Agrarian

A natural beekeeper I know who adheres to all the latest trends in chemical-free beekeeping lost 40 of his 48 hives in 2017. And according to the state apiarist, up to 80 percent of Tennessee’s honeybee colonies died in the 2016-2017 period. As Mr. Salatin would say, “Folks, this ain’t normal.”

Thriving Communities and Thriving Ecosystems through the Bee

By Wangũi Kamonji, Transition Network

I wanted to connect as many ‘honey peoples’ as possible because I felt that they had been forgotten. The ‘bee custodians’, as I like to call them as opposed to beekeepers, had held the space for bees throughout our previous generations. And yet the hunter-gatherer is pitched at the bottom of the strata of livelihoods.

Honeybees: A Holistic Perspective on a Superorganism

By Sean Hearn, Sustainable Food Trust

Honeybees have seen a dramatic rise in public awareness and beekeeping has exponentially increased in popularity, however the mindset of industrial farming is still alarmingly prevalent in beekeeping practice, and how it is discussed and taught to the next generation of beekeepers.

There’s Something Wrong with the Bees: On Sun Hives and Crisis Houses

By Carrie Foulkes, The Dark Mountain Project

In considering the Sun Hive alongside my personal experiences of distress, I do not mean to use the bees as a metaphor, to plunder nature for her poetry. Instead I wish to suggest that our reductive attitudes towards both bees and human health may be symptomatic of a prevailing mindset of exploitation and control.

Urban Beekeeper Delivers Pollinators by Bike to Community Gardens Across Chicago

By Karen Briner, Seedstock

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Monofloral and Manuka Honey: Honey-Hunting the Honeybee to its Demise, With Love

By Allan Stromfeldt Christensen, From Filmers to Farmers

Are monofloral honeys all they're cracked up to be, or are they yet another empty money-making scheme, exposing vulnerable honeybees to the toxic environments of monocultures?

The Chicago Honey Co-op Works with a Hive Mind

By Kelly McCartney, Shareable

Bees are essential to food production. In response to the massive, global colony collapse problem, myriad urban beekeeping organizations have cropped up around the country.

African Beekeeping Stops Mites from Wiping out Hives

By Inga Vesper, SciDevNet

Traditional African beekeeping methods offer better protection against hive-destroying varroa mites than pesticides which, according to a study, are losing their potency.

Tales of Pollen and Empowerment in Chicago

By John Mulrow, Yardfarmers blog

In Chicago, Sweet Beginnings helps people returning from prison learn how to make a living with bees – changing ideas about ecology and imprisonment along the way.