BEE TENDER
NATURAL BEE KEEPING / STEWARD
&
HONEY BEE REHOMING
”Rescuing”
( Located in the Asheville, NC region )
In the past year, honey bee colonies have experienced devastating losses. With over 1.6 million colonies lost between June 2024 and early 2025. These are some of the highest losses on record. Contributing factors include varroa mites, habitat destruction, pesticide exposure, climate stress, and disease. This ecological collapse doesn’t just affect honey; it ripples out into ecosystems, wild pollinators, and plant life, threatening the natural balance of our world.
To respond to this crisis, we should turn back toward ancient and natural forms of beekeeping. ✨ Ways of tending that honor the bee as a sacred being rather than a commercial asset.
In ancient Egypt, bees were revered as messengers of the gods. Priestesses and temple keepers worked closely with them, using honey and beeswax in spiritual rites, healing salves, and offerings. Beekeeping was an act of deep listening and reciprocity…a relationship built on care, rhythm, and respect for the hive’s intelligence.
Returning to this kind of beekeeping… rooted in observation, intuition, and ecological harmony… invites us to restore not only bee populations, but a deeper connection to nature itself. Natural beekeeping supports bees in living closer to their instinctive rhythms: swarming, building comb, and foraging diverse, pesticide-free flowers. It’s a reminder that healing the planet begins with how we care… not just for land and life, but for the small, winged miracles who pollinate our world.
The bees are asking us to remember. To become stewards again. To protect their lineage as sacred, and to listen to the wisdom they carry between wings and wax.
