This past Saturday I received my Beekeeper Certification.  After two years of classes and fieldwork, 12 of us graduated with our pins and certificates of capability… or maybe just sheer stubborness.  One of our instructors, Susan, continues to comment that, like the t.v. show, we are the survivors. We began with 24 second year beekeepers…

Recently I met Lorenzo Candelaria, an heir to one of 6 original families from Spain who were deeded vast tracts of land in New Mexico.  He is part of 300 years of tradition—- land that has been in his family for 7 generations.  We connected at the Growers Market in my neighborhood where he was…

Is it just animal nature to fight?  After reading a whole book called Bee Time: Lessons from the Hive  by biologist, Mark Winston (Cambridge, MA: Harvard U. Press, 2014) about how bees as a superorganism exemplify cooperation and communication, I find my newly acquired feral hive dragging bees out the door and throwing them off…