Bees teach patience, resilience, and thankfulness for nature’s gifts. They teach us to work with them rather than control them. Today, bees have been forced to work in an agricultural model that poisons and malnourishes them. The demand for performance requires selective breeding, shallowing their gene pool and creating a welfare state for our bees– hives that cannot survive without chemical treatments and artificial feed. They live on plastic comb and are not allowed to swarm. Then they are at the mercy of a climate destabilized by Global Weirding. And yet the bees still thrive. They are wild.

And they are rebelling.

The practice now known as “American Beekeeping” is repulsive, and I am determined to destroy it. Not for the sake of the bees, who will bee just fine once these sacrileges cease, but for the sake of the beekeepers and every person’s relationship with land, food, love, and fear. Call it a not-so-hidden agenda. Call it Anarchy.

The bees in the Hudson Valley are having an EPIC YEAR. Seen above are the bees of my dreams: Wild Hives that give a middle finger to an industry that says bees need treatments and management. Would you like to meet this Epic Hive, removed safely from a demoed building in Copake to the Anarchy bee yard in Milan? Would you like to learn how to keep bees and let them keep you? To learn more (or less) then come to our 3rd annual Beekeepers Association of Northern Dutchess (B. A. N. D.) Potluck Field Day. We will meet at Cedar Cliff Farm once again to play with the bees- weather and bees permitting. Sunday July 25th, starting around 1 PM.

The bees are fattening up, so bring something to help the humans along!

Bring a veil. (Well, nobody ever does.) I didn't need one when removing this hive.

I am humble in front of these bees.

RSVP for directions - anarchyapiaries@hotmail.com

I love bees.
- sam