I heard a good joke today. Noah’s wife: We lost the bees! Noah: Bummer. Did you check the ark hives? Meg handed me the U.S. Catholic magazine with this little gem as I walked into the Norbertine Community in Southwest Albuquerque today. A monkish community—they are not cloistered, but rather deeply engaged in ecumenical work…

As the warmer temps crept up this past week here in Albuquerque, I began visiting my hives, readying them for the Spring bee keeping season.   Since all my ladies are flying in my home bee yard, I started with the three beehives at the organic farm in the South Valley, followed by two at…

My dentist is a very well read and smart man. He and I often talk bees and human environmental toxins, since we share a passion for these things. Recently, at my regular cleaning visit, he handed me a very useful tool. It was a PLU code guideline for reading food labels which determines whether what…