Bee Teachings on Resilience + Consensus w— Ang Roell

In this episode, regenerative beekeeper Ang Roell talks with us about how bees teach us about consensus, planning to thrive and the parallels between bee health + human health within our current agricultural system.

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we discuss

• Their lineage + family history of beekeeping

• The complexity of collaborating directly with the natural world to earn a living

• White folk’s cultural displacement of heritage + assimilation of whiteness

• The role of bees in ecosystems + why they are necessary

• How bees were brought to the US and became part of our agricultural system

• Parallels between the health of bees + the health of humans

• Why bees don’t need saving

• How we confuse consumerism with a solution

• The connection between identity, resilience + place

• The importance of meeting basic needs + collaborating to survive + thrive

• How bees model consensus + planning to do better

• Their proposal for a regenerative beekeeping school to re-skill folks for their own bee practices

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Honeybee Democracy by Thomas Seeley

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