In Farming God’s Way we speak of God’s all-sufficiency. Bees are an incredible example.

I’ve read that, due to their pollinating function, bees are directly responsible for 1 out of every 3 bites of food we eat. And unfortunately, bee colonies are under incredible stress, especially in North America and Europe.

It seems that science is still trying to definitively answer the question of why there are such widespread collapses of bee colonies, but from what I’ve been able to learn it seems to me it’s a variety of factors that add up to stressing colonies to the breaking point. These stress factors include lack of variety of quality of forage (nectar and pollen), widespread pesticide use, and a marked increase of pests and diseases.

Well, I’ve taken up a new hobby – beekeeping! I only have 1 hive, but it’s been absolutely fascinating learning how to keep bees. I put a catch box up in our garden last year August, and then waited months (and months) for scouts from a trek swarm to find it. And then, finally one day in early April, they came. There were bees everywhere! I set up a proper hive box behind the garage, and then started moving the catch box one to two metres toward it every evening. If you move it too far, the bees get confused and won’t find their way home once they leave the box.

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I’m quite the new-bee (ha!), and haven’t quite developed the art of locating the queen, but she’s definitely there laying eggs and regulating the activity of the colony.

It’s nice being able to do a little to help a honeybee colony thrive, and in a few months they’ll likely reward us with a nice little harvest of our own honey we can use. What fun!