DIARY OF A BEEKEEPER
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Supporting Women in Beekeeping: Ifelodun Beekeepers Farmers Association
The Wild Bee Co. have twinned with the Ifelodun Beekeepers Farmers Association, where 40 women are turning their beekeeping knowledge a sustainable business.
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What Is Propolis? The Ancient Bee Remedy Explained
Nature’s most potent remedy. A sacred, resinous treasure from honey bees which has been used for generations by various cultures and communities. Often referred to as “BEE GLUE” or “THE HIVE’S EXTERNAL IMMUNE SYSTEM.”
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Telling the Bees
MILABAYE DAJEE
11th May 1954 - 2nd November 2025
When a Queen Bee dies, the colony feels it immediately. The hive becomes confused, stressed and disoriented. Survival mode takes over. Grief moves through people the same way it ripples through a colony.
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“Real Honey Is Not Cheap and Cheap Honey Is Not Real” - It's Not That Simple
At first glance, it feels empowering - maybe even supportive of small-scale beekeepers. But when you scratch beneath the surface, this statement is reductive, misleading, simplistic, perpetuates capitalism and can be detrimental to the GLOBAL beekeeping farming community.
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Spring Things
The first time I grounded myself with Mama Earth, foraged my first Parasol Mushroom, collected a swarm of bees, brewed my first cup of nettle tea, fermented my first batch of wild garlic kimchi - it ignited that inner child feeling of ‘play’.
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BEEHAVIOUR
Be like a Bee - adapting a ‘bee's behavioural blueprint’ to my own outlook on life, unravelling the lessons and enchanting parallels between the beehive and the human experience.
