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Here’s to a thriving hive

May 3, 2012 by Watt Childress Leave a Comment

I found this video during a quick internet fly-over. Some instinct moved me to bring it here and share it, not just with select friends — in standard online fashion — but for the betterment of a whole community website.

Our household has kept bees at various times in our farm adventures. In fact they’re out there right now, doing their best for the hive while pollinating our gardens, berries, and fruit trees.

Several years ago a visiting nephew was so inspired by our bees that he went home and set up his own hive. He’s since moved on to other interests, but I bet he’ll come back to it sometime. One tends to miss their collective genius when they’re not around.

Why are bees disappearing? Pollinate your mind. Visit the website listed at the end of the video. Watch activist students remind us how bees and people communicate vital messages through dance.

Filed Under: Nature, Song and Dance, ULE, Uncategorized Tagged With: Bee, Beekeeping

About Watt Childress

Watt owns Jupiter's Books in Cannon Beach, Oregon and he publishes the Upper Left Edge. He has written for HIPFiSH, The Daily Astorian, The North Coast Citizen, The Seaside Signal, The Oregonian, and The Vancouver Observer. Also Appalachian Magazine, The Kingsport Times-News, The Tennessean, The Third Eye, Farmazine, The Griot, and Presbyterian Survey. His lettered compulsion took a turn, thirty-some years ago, when he began sending odd columns to the Reverend Billy Lloyd Hults, former publisher of The Upper Left Edge. Watt lives on a tiny hill-farm perched beside the Nehalem Valley. There he and his kin care for dairy goats, chickens, ducks, dogs, newts and other critters.

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