FAMILY

9.5.11

Honey Bees


The message of the honey bee tells us to go get your dreams, you can make your dreams a reality. You can create anything you put your mind and heart to.

Some of the favorite plants for the Honey bee:

Spring- Old species of tulips, snowdrops,violets, crocuses, forget-me-nots, dandelion,helleborus,and trees; hawthorn, blackthorn, hazel, lime tree, oak, willow, sycamore, and all fruit trees and bushes.

Sage can be a spring cleanser for bees. A feed of 5kg of honey with a tea brewed for 20 mins in 5 ltrs of water, 14 tsps sage, 4 tsps thyme, 4 tsps chamomile. warm this to around 65C.


Summer - buddleja, anise-hyssop, bergamont (bee balm ), melissa, catnip, red clover, Coriander is useful - helps the bees rub off mites.

To help with the bee's health, it's important to have growing in the garden, anise-hyssop, catnip, purple loosestrife, majoram, motherwort and mint.

These help with honey production to feed the bees throughout the winter months. Ivy is also good to have around for pollen in late Autumn.

Links.


Books.

The Theory and Practise of Natural Beekeeping-encompassing the Biodynamic Perspective.
Bees, lectures by Rudolf Steiner.
The Barefoot Beekeeper by P.J Chandler.
The Shamanic Way of the Bee by Simon Buxton.

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