Anarchy Apiaries: Bee Esoteric with Sam Comfort

Welcome to the House that Bees Built (REST BEFORE LABOR)

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Sam Comfort won six beehives in a poker game in 2002, then spent several years working in large-scale migratory pollination, honey production, and queen rearing. Exploring an alternate route, his Anarchy Apiaries now provides varietal honey, queens, and shook swarms from around 400 rustic, treatment-free hives, a mix of Kenyan top bar, Warre-style "Comfort" hives, and Langstroth frames in New York, Florida, and other diverse locations.

Sam freely shares a lot of tips, songs, why's, how's, and plenty of opinions for and against this approach, the state of the bee industry, how communities can work together towards self-sufficiency in beekeeping, and how this model can change the scope of our agriculture. The mission of Anarchy Apiaries is to bring the means of production back to the beekeeper, to make beekeeping feasible, simple, and affordable for all, and to facilitate the beekeeping network with more hives than televisions. Working with Bees is all about overcoming fear. The Hive is love incarnate. The Hive is the window to our new world. It takes patience and emotional energy to dismantle power dynamics Ð more awkward than a newborn goat. We are rediscovering what it means to live in peace with the insects, the landscape, and each other, outside of the corporate scheme.

What is happening? Apart from global warming, apart from a weak dollar and high oil prices, apart from our energy, food, water, economic, and personal crises, why are we so grumpy? Where is the connection that sustains our life force? Are we losing our ability to live in peace with ourselves and care for living things? Well, ask not what your paradigm can do for you- nobody out there has your solution. The generations now seem like separations. Nothing out there is going to change until we change ourselves. What we have brought the Honey Bees to bear is an ecological problem. An ecological problem is a social problem. Estranged, packed-in but alone, we have allowed fear and mistrust to govern our freedom.

They got the bombs but Bees got the numbers. Join together!

Bring questions, instruments, BYOBee & wild honey child