Harvest time. It’s been a lush Spring, with flowers galore from the rains. I’ve begun to harvest some of my girl’s honey. Emily Dickinson celebrates bees, clover and honey…often. I wonder why I never knew about her connection to the bees? The pedigree of honeyDoes not concern the bee;A clover, any time, to him (ahem,…

Nothing new. It’s the economic system we have proudly built in the West. Anything that is gift, given freely by Mother Earth, is quickly snatched up by hungry profit seekers. It is codified, standardized, chemicalized and dominated. A system that has industrialized almost every part of our food system, destroyed and pillaged the natural world…

This is the month for the bees – the heavy, sweet month – with much of the promise and the failure of the crop year in it. (The Old Farmers Almanac, 1944) It is the outgoing month of June. In the bee world, it is Pollinator month. Summer Solstice. The month of honey harvesting (if you…