Treating your bees the way THEY want to be treated
In 2009, having won a nuc and purchasing another nuc after learning in school that you should have at least two hives, I began beekeeping. Listening and watching my bees taught me how to care for them. I never had any varroa issues, pests, or absconding. They even taught me how to feed them using probiotics for their health. They taught me how everything they do is related to their environment and how to use my senses in my own environment.
I now hear words in the wind as it moves the leaves; learned how the bees can follow the sun; know when to queen a hive/colony; and how the bees can tell the weather. I learned that they are sentient beings after showing me the three traits. And they fascinate me as they work as a superorganism, which moves and thinks as one individual unit. Indeed, how one superorganism works more like a human more than humans do.
My blogs will explain what the bees taught me; have information on the healing qualities of hive products and the how-to of apitherapy. The articles will have information about sustainable beekeeping practices that can be applied even to commercial beekeepers, without the need of treatments or chemicals. For the most part, the information will be tied to the honeybee’s way of life, a little spirituality, a little humor, and a lot of wisdom; all with respect to everyone and to the earth. There will be information you won’t believe, including some links to studies. All I ask is that you don’t discount or exclude any information, but to store it away for the future. You never know when it will become handy.
Know you are loved,
Lady Cerelli
