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“Beewildered Companions makes a beautifully filmed
argument in favor of a bees-first philosophy, but evades the most perplexing issue: can natural and economic be compatible?”
A forager fills up with water in a soggy bog.
Beewildered Companions was both satisfying and disappointing in approaching this fundamental divide. their feral nature paramount. Disappointing in not asking might we transition to softer approaches in commercially managing honey bees? Clearly we all can’t keep our honey bees feral up in trees. As one beekeeper said in Bewildered Companions beekeeping beautiful but it’s not for me. Too much driving into the forest and too much work.” While I wish the producers had gone deeper into all sides
does point out one reason to be grateful to varroa: “It is In that way beekeeping today represents a microcosm
of the essential agricultural conundrum of our time: management to favor sustainable systems that have a lighter environmental footprint but perhaps (although not necessarily) somewhat reduced productivity.
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generation of beekeepers evolves. Beewildered Companions the Darwinian beekeepers.
beekeeper put it: “Tree beekeeping is about knowing how to replicate the natural habitat of the bees... I feel obligated to help my friends the bees.”
Mark L. Winston is a Professor and Senior Fellow at Simon Fraser University’s Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue, and author of the recent book Bee Time: Lessons From the Hive as well as the co-author of Listening to the Bees, with poet Renee Sarojini Saklikar.
www.winstonhive.com (personal blog and website)
www.sfu.ca/dialogue (Centre for Dialogue)
www.sfu.ca/dialogue/semester (Semester in Dialogue)
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