Bees

Last Sunday I went to the Philadelphia Beekeeper's Guild meeting to attend a lecture on organic beekeeping and apitherapy. Silly me, I thought apitherapy was kind of an occupational therapy - like animal assisted therapy. I was thinking that for some people, watching the bees collect honey, raise their young, cooperate, and so on, would be therapeutic to the depressed and lonely. So I was wrong! Apitherapy is about healing the body by using bee products such as honey, pollen, propolis, and bee stings.

At any rate, I learned a lot and found that a lot of people I know are interested in bees. For example, I went with two others (Ernst & Julie) and each of us knew someone at the event.

I am definitely buying a hive. But it is a confusing world out there. I can place an order with an Amish man, but what to buy?