

This book is a collection of stories from the field and resources for new and intermediate beekeepers interwoven with my own experience as a beekeeper over the last decade.

A mantra I mutter to myself 10-100 times a day as a grounding exercise. Sometimes with different inflection. Sometimes in the company of others. Sometimes in the company of oak trees that have lived through far more change than I could possibly imagine. No matter what it grounds me. Democracy is crumbling, oligarchs are on

authored by Hannah R. Whitehead, Ang Roell, Samuel A. Comfort III, Bi Kline, Lynn S. Adler Winter losses of honey bee colonies in the United States can be very high; small-scale beekeepers in northern states frequently lose 50% or more of their colonies over the winter. To replace their losses, beekeepers often buy bees and queens from southern states. However,