A 4 minutes presentation video

After two years of labour, my baby came out…! Published by Le Souffle d’Or, as part of the Findhorn collection, released in bookstores on the 13th October. The English version is already translated and is now searching for its publisher. Some more months of patience are needed… RÉSUMÉ Petite fée pollinisatrice à six pattes, humble et discrète, sa ferveur fascine et sa sagesse intrigue. Son chant mystérieux déclenche en l’être

Our last bee-friendly hive is born: we have called it the ‘CobCortiço’. Made of cork, cob and wood, this hive with thick, breathable walls should strongly support the swarm to build up a strong and powerful core. We added a ‘symbiotic floor’, an extra box below the hive body, where a symbiotic relationship can be established between the bees and micro-organisms. The size of the box is wider than the

April 2020, Alentejo, Portugal. The first part of the video describes our experiment to make a hollow olive tree suitable for bees to live in.The holes of the tree are filled with several layers of cob.The recipe of the cob mixtures will be explained in another video coming very soon.The second part of the video shows our mistakes and eventual success in bringing a swarm inside the tree cavity…

A beautiful swarm ‘walked’ into her new home, a Top Bar Hive, located one kilometre away from where the swarm landed. The cluster has been split into two parts and re-united.

Many bee colonies living in managed hives are dying this year in our area. Interestingly, we recently discovered several powerful colonies living in trees. A calling to support the rewilding of the bees…

From October 25-27th 2019, our BeeShip team joined a gathering of Iberian bee lovers in La Donaira, Andalucia, Spain, where Jonathan Powell (from the Natural Beekeeping Trust) has been guiding a honey bee rewilding project since 2017. Jonathan introduced us to “La Cama de Abejas”, the bee bed. This wooden bed gives one person the possibility to be in in close contact with the two bee colonies living under the

A praying mantis enjoys a bee delicacy at the entrance of the Sun Hive. Thanks to Or for the music…

This morning a swarm flows out of the Sun Hive, pouring out like water… The swarm settles in a swarm attractor, specially prepared. Four weeks later, the swarm is transferred to a Top Bar Hive.
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