The Sweet Life, Regenerative Beekeeping
Na’alehu Hawai’i
Wildcrafting Wisdom From the Bees
At Bee Boys, we practice regenerative beekeeping methods, listening to the bees needs and desires. Working with the animate forces in nature allows the colony to guide us. As life regenerates, we become whole and healthy again.
At our apiary, regenerative practices are celebrated in our own lives as well. We work in communion with the honeybees to live a more harmonious life.
Accepting the bees message inspires the way we do business and walk through life.
It is not easy to follow an untraditional path. The world may throw hurdles and holes in your way. The honeybees remind us we can take wing- soar above and beyond the confines of a traditional life. Many of us face moments that challenge what we have been told, what we have accepted. Crisis and pain may leave us feeling underprepared and not well balanced. The honeybees have also faced similar challenges, most notably in recent times. Magically, the bees response during this moment of duress was not to give up, give in, or succumb . Instead, the bees permeated human consciousness with a deep and powerful message.
Some hear to this call from the divine. In each of us the message settles in a unique way, hinting how we can help the bees -and in so doing help ourselves. We are all actors, with a part to play in the unfolding story of time. We are part of a larger circle of life, interdependant and intrinsic to the health and happiness of our world. As we listen to the bees, the ‘work’ begins. Work is seldom easy, without pain or sacrifice- however it generally leaves us feeling more than we were when we started. Allowing the bees into our lives, listening with them - may bring salvation in this time when ‘true north’ is shifting. Each of our roles are unique and special. We all have a place within the universal hive of harmony
Inside the Colonies
As beekeepers, we've come to understand that life in the colony is sacred and delicate. It's important that we allow the honeybees to keep the colony order as they desire. For this reason, our apiary practices are as follows:
Our apiary is 100% treatment free.
We encourage hygienic behavior in our bees.
We allow our bees to raise their own queens.
Bees are encouraged to constantly build their own comb.
Bees are allowed to swarm.
Absolutely no plastic in the hives, this includes plastic frames, feeders and any component of the hive.
We do not paint beehives.
We refrain from pesticide and herbicide use.
We do not feed bees.
We do not move bees for pollination services, or to nectar sources.
We follow biodynamic principles and apply instinctual beekeeping methods.
Bee Boys Products
At Bee Boys, we make products with social and environmental impact. Your purchase directly supports the honey bees and our beekeepers. Hawaii farmers supply Bee Boys with raw materials & quality ingredients, whenever possible. We love using local ingredients, pollinated by our bees in our product line! We feel this is a unique practice that highlights beekeeping, food production, and value added goods -brought to you by the honeybees.
Our NEW Apiary Alchemy line celebrates our deepining connection with the healing animate forces, in natures honeybee..
Honoring the Honeybee
The Bee Boys Song
by Rudyard Kipling
Bees! Bees! Hark to your bees!
'Hide from your neighbours as much as you please,
But all that has happened, to us you must tell,
Or else we will give you no honey to sell!'
A Maiden in her glory,
Upon her wedding-day,
Must tell her Bees the story,
Or else they'll fly away.
Fly away - die away -
Dwindle down and leave you!
But if you don't deceive your Bees,
Your Bees will not deceive you.
Marriage, birth or buryin',
News across the seas,
All you're sad or merry in,
You must tell the Bees.
Tell 'em coming in an' out,
Where the Fanners fan,
'Cause the Bees are justabout
As curious as a man!
Don't you wait where trees are,
When the lightnings play;
Nor don't you hate where Bees are,
Or else they'll pine away.
Pine away - dwine away -
Anything to leave you!
But if you never grieve your Bees,
Your Bees'll never grieve you!
