Sister Bee, beekeeping video » Outtakes

laura — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 22:34:16 +0000

I think they’re simply benevolent. You know, they’re just working, just like the rest of us.

- Julie Finley

laura — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 17:59:09 +0000

I thought, “Oh, well that’ll be fun!”

- Marge McLellan

The beekeepers I know

laura — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 18:10:26 +0000

Some people say that beekeepers are weird but I don’t think so. The beekeepers I know are actually all very different.

- Mery Molenaar

The other thing

laura — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 18:47:52 +0000

The other thing that I find just amazing is how they can start from scratch and make twenty frames of comb in a matter of just weeks.

- Patricia Butler

Well, go get ‘em!

laura — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 19:56:20 +0000

I heard this buzzing, this incredible sound in the air, and there were thousands of bees. I went, “Oh my gosh! They’ve swarmed out of the hive!” and just stood there watching them. I know I must have been crying because I thought of all the work it took (to move the feral colony into the hive) and now they’ve left in about thirty seconds… I called my friend Mark, my bee mentor, and told him what happened and he said, “Well, go get ‘em!”

- Ruth Eastman

I feel confident

laura — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 20:20:34 +0000

I’ve been stung a couple of times and it just doesn’t feel good. But as long as I’m in my suit I feel confident and I don’t have a problem with them buzzing around me.

- Mery Molenaar

It’s your decision

laura — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 06:18:10 +0000

There are a lot of different opinions and people will give you different advice… and that is in itself interesting. But ultimately, as an individual, you have to make the decision about what you’re going to do (with your bees).

- Patricia Butler

My small contribution

laura — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 19:59:45 +0000

I’m a gardener. I’m not so much into flowers but I’m into vegetables and things that I can eat… That’s my small contribution… Raising my own food, not using sprays, trying to conserve on gasoline and heat and energy right here.

- Marge McLellan

Beautiful mother

laura — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 17:54:59 +0000

Let’s say the creator is a beautiful mother. She doesn’t love one of her babies more than the next one, right? She loves them differently, maybe. But she loves them equally. And, you know, we can imagine any kind of creator we want… So from my world view I guess that just because we’re human doesn’t mean we have any more of God’s love than that butterfly that just went by. He loves us all the same. Or she loves us all the same.

- Julie Finley

It appeals to me

laura — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 21:02:18 +0000

It appeals to me, to be outside working the bees and watching them.

- Ruth Eastman

Coming to the garden

laura — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 19:40:50 +0000

An experience of the environment is something people look for on the weekend on their mountain bike or doing extreme kayaking or whatever. I just realized, for myself, that I need to experience the environment every day. So coming to the garden is how I decided to make that fit into my life.

- Julie Finley

Working with my hands

laura — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 21:24:26 +0000

Somebody said to me one time, “You do massage, why in the world would you do woodworking? What if you cut off your finger or hand or something?” To me, doing massage, doing woodworking, and when I stop and think about it, working with the bees… I’m working with my hands. I’m physically involved as well as emotionally involved. It makes total sense to me that I’m engrossed in all three of those things…

I love the woodworking part (of beekeeping).

- Ruth Eastman

They know what they’re doing

laura — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 20:02:21 +0000

Half the time I go in there, I don’t know what they’re doing. I don’t know if I’m reading them right. But I know they know what they’re doing. It’s very clear.

- Suzanne Connolly Howes

It’s like church in there, isn’t it?

laura — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 21:44:40 +0000

It’s like church in there isn’t it? I mean, it’s sacred in there. I guess, for me, in a box of bees, you don’t have to explain yourself. You don’t have to understand everything that’s going on. Everything they do eventually makes sense even if I don’t understand it at the time. All of that to me is feminine.

- Julie Finley

Sometimes they’re not

laura — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 18:05:24 +0000

It seems like I should be able to have friendlier bees, but sometimes they’re not.

- Ruth Eastman

Hooked

laura — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:40:14 +0000

A friend once said it takes a year or two for people to decide whether or not to stick with beekeeping. For some people it’s too much work. Other people get hooked. I’m definitely hooked.

- Patricia Butler

I love giving away honey

laura — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 21:16:31 +0000

I don’t sell my honey. I give it to my friends and family and the people who love it are the ones who get the most. I love giving away honey to people who really appreciate it.

- Suzanne Connolly Howes

Honey

laura — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 20:15:49 +0000

Oh, jeez, look at all this honey!

- Julie Finley

A different world

laura — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 21:49:25 +0000

It’s like entering a different world.

- Ruth Eastman

A determined, direct way of living

laura — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 17:04:42 +0000

The most intriguing thing about bees for me is the way they communicate with one another. The way they build their comb, the hexagonal shape, it’s fascinating how well they work together. It’s a really determined, direct way of living.

- Mery Molenaar

I just like to see the bees living and doing well

laura — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 21:34:47 +0000

It’s just wonderful to see them! When I take the cover off the hive I’m just fascinated to watch them go about their jobs, working so hard. They know exactly what to do.

– Marge McLellan

It’s a slow speed

laura — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 21:29:32 +0000

It’s a slow speed. You don’t answer the phone. You don’t do anything else while you’re with them. You just get lost, I mean hours… I can be with those bees for three or four hours, come in and realize I missed lunch, it’s three hours later, but I don’t care!

- Ruth Eastman

Best lessons

laura — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 19:37:03 +0000

Some of the hardest lessons, the best lessons, have come from making dumb mistakes.

- Patricia Butler

What I wore

laura — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 04:18:42 +0000

I didn’t know anything about bees and I was scared about getting stung because as a kid I had kicked a yellow jacket nest and I had gotten probably a hundred stings on my body. I was actually really nervous about getting in and working them the first time because I didn’t know what they would do. I wore two pairs of pants, a long turtleneck, another shirt and then the suit and I died because I was really hot!

But I didn’t get stung. And I got fascinated looking at them.

- Suzanne Connolly Howes

A sting in my pocket

laura — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 04:17:35 +0000

My dad was a beekeeper. He had been a beekeeper way before I was born and still kept bees as I was growing up. I remember bees in the backyard because I remember being stung once. I put a bouquet of flowers in my pocket and got stung. It was pretty painful but it always stuck with me.

- Ruth Eastman

Life!

laura — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 04:17:10 +0000

It’s wonderful to see… life!

- Mery Molenaar

Pollinators

laura — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 04:16:43 +0000

I’ve always been interested in bees as pollinators, but when we lived in the city I didn’t think I had to worry that much about them. When we moved out here it was my intention to plant fruit trees. So in the back of my mind I thought it would be important to keep bees.

- Patricia Butler