Grai St. Clair Rice is an organic beekeeper with 21 years’ experience, as well as a writer/artist. In 2022, Grai started Bee Joy, a solo company, to continue teaching and coaching beekeepers, with an approach that is both spiritual and scientific. She engages the public with visual presentations on bees, beekeeping and gardening for Honey bees, to help broaden the vital knowledge and appreciation of Honey bees and other pollinators.
“An individual worker bee makes 1/12 teaspoon of honey in her life that she will not eat, but to feed her sisters to survive Winter. That is a beautiful, sweet thing.”
#HivesBeforeHoney
00:00- Inspiration for beekeeping
02:55- Profound pollinator discoveries
06:05- Ultraviolet runways
09:41- Hives before honey
16:16- Honeybee Genome Project
20:20- Acclimating to the hive
26:16- Surviving Winter
30:00-Birth of the hive
33:10- Connecting with Grai
36:33- Supporting local Beekeepers
41:00- Different kinds of hives
42:55- Assessing the ‘bee-sting’
52:00- Native bees and leaving weeds
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