Rudolph Steiner talked a lot about the cycle of bees, the love in the hive, and how we should emulate that. Because everyone has a job and works together to the benefit of the hive. Rudolph Steiner talks a lot about how the bees bring the love- life of the flowers into the hive, and the honey that is produced by this is made from the parts of the plants centred in love. The elixir of life!
Casa London: What inspired you to start keeping bees?
Chuck: I started bee keeping 5 years ago off the cuff. We went to visit a friends farm where he had had 2 hives. Not long after that visit, I invested in two hives myself and it grew from there. We have 90 now, and this year is the first year that we have had an abundance of honey so we have been able to play around with incorporating Jane’s love of herbal medicines and infusing them into honey.
We have our yards two or three miles apart, so the different yards supply different honey. Not drastically different flavours but there is definitely a difference. The different types of plants and trees, even how hot the hives get,