beeswax

Traditional beeswax candlemaker, Alysia Mazzella, talks with us about how honeybees collaborate, the importance of local economies and knowing where your honey (and your candles!) come from.  We share about using candles as a way to mark sacred time and what bees can teach us about what sustainable work looks like.

we discuss

• Candle making as a vehicle for sacred time and being close to nature
• A historical narrative on human relating with bees and honey
• How bees model working relationships for social sustainability 
• Finding ethical, respectful, reciprocal ways of working with nature
• How bees teach her how to run her business and work with others
• Why local economy + purchasing from people you know is important for sustainability
• The benefits of beeswax candles
•  Why most store-bought candles are bad for your health + the environment
• Why buying soy candles is supporting climate change
• Alysia’s personal practices with candles to hold ritual
• The special spectrum of light from beeswax candles + how it interacts with our bodies

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LINKS —

If you enjoyed the episode, check out —
Episode w/ Ang Roell
Episode on the 3 Landscapes of Purpose

More about our guest —

Alysia's website
Alysia's IG

Mentioned in the episode —

Mapping our Roles in Social Change Ecosystems (.pdf)
Honeyland documentary. Watch on Hulu.
Rotten episode on fraudulent honey importation . You can also read this article.
More about pesticides + honeybee health
Conflict is not Abuse, book by Sara Schulman
Bliss, book by Peter Carey
Farming While Black, book by Leah Penniman

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free pesticide education tool for easy learning + distribution

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Tom Theobald and Laura Tyler chat about swarm season. Tom remembers the first swarm he ever saw as a boy in Arvada, Colorado.

"I came out one late spring morning to find them hanging form the picket fence near the gate. I knew little about bees but it was quickly apparent that they meant me no harm and I spent a good part of that day and the following morning watching them coming and going. I recall my disappointment on the second afternoon when I found that they had left without a trace . . . "

CREDITS
Producer: Laura Tyler
Author: Tom Theobald
Editor: Andy Schwarz
Music: "Americana" and "Sonorus" by Mr Smith are licensed under CC by 4.0
Logo Design: Janet Cerretani

Tom Theobald talks about maximizing honey production in Boulder County, Colorado. Tom and Laura chat about how beekeeping has changed since “Working Toward the Honey Flow” was first published in 1990.

"It’s a chess game that you play with the bees. Only after you’ve played the game, after you’ve had the chess match, can you determine whether you’ve been successful or not . . .”

CREDITS
Producer: Laura Tyler
Author: Tom Theobald
Editor: Andy Schwarz
Music: "Americana" and "Sonorus" by Mr Smith are licensed under CC by 4.0
Logo Design: Janet Cerretani

Tom Theobald outlines the basics of spring survival for honeybees. Tom and Laura chat about dandelions, and about "what beekeeping does to you."

"As I go out to do the chores at dawn, the frozen grass shatters underfoot like shards of glass. These spring storms are brief, though, and soon the sun returns. And well it does, for some of the greatest challenges and finest pleasures in beekeeping lie just ahead."

CREDITS
Producer: Laura Tyler
Author: Tom Theobald
Editor: Andy Schwarz
Music: "Americana" and "Sonorus" by Mr Smith are licensed under CC by 4.0
Logo Design: Janet Cerretani

Tom Theobald and Laura Tyler introduce themselves and welcome you to Notes from the Beeyard.

"I am a beekeeper. One of a few hundred commercial operators and thousands of hobbyists, I ply my craft along the Front Range of the Rockies in Boulder County, Colorado. I never anticipated becoming a beekeeper. In fact, like many others, I put beekeepers in that same cubbyhole I reserved for lion tamers, snake charmers, and sword swallowers. But here I am, and here I've been, immersed in a craft which captivated me from the first moment I came in contact with it . . ."

CREDITS
Producer: Laura Tyler
Author: Tom Theobald
Editor: Andy Schwarz
Music: "Americana" and "Sonorus" by Mr Smith are licensed under CC by 4.0
Logo Design: Janet Cerretani

Jessica and Melissa have fallen in love with Beeswax (we're not sure about Lauri yet).  Listen as we share our experiences using it  and our best ideas, tips, tools and techniques for creating collage with Beeswax. 

You'll learn some fun and easy methods to experiment with, some tricks for trying it out without buying a lot of supplies and some important tips on safety.

We've also got some really exciting fun finds this week and a new prize winner!

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This week’s topic is the Honeybee, or if you want to be fancy, “Honey Bee”. Honeybees have been domesticated by humans to help crop pollination and for yummy honey. Everyone knows about the Western Honey Bee (Apis mellifera), and most people probably know of Eastern Honey Bee (Apis cerana), but did you know there are at least six other species of Honeybees and around 20,000 species of bees on this planet?

First, Happy Belated Earth Day! If you’re interested in donating or volunteering here are some of the sisters' favorite charities.

350.org which is dedicated to combating climate change by reducing the atmosphere's carbon dioxide concentration to the safe level of 350 parts per million. (We currently sit at 400 parts per million.)

4ocean.com Every purchase helps fund our global ocean cleanup operation and supports a growing movement to end the world’s reliance on single-use plastic.

www.ucsusa.org  Union of Concerned Scientists is a non-profit science advocacy organization dedicated to the lofty goal of making the planet a healthier and safer world.

Honeybees live in eusocial colonies, which you've probably heard about in biology class, but were just never told the scientific name for it.  Eusocial is a fancy way to say there's a strict caste system of the Queen, female workers bees, and of course the mostly useless male drones, and everyone sticks to their duties. But did you know that female worker bees have different jobs throughout their lives? Or that a few selfish worker bees can cause anarchy within a colony? Or that a Queen can mate up to 60 times? 

You’ve also probably heard that the bee population is declining, but do you know why? And, if the honey bee population collapsed, would the human population also collapse? 

Listen now to learn about the fascinating Honeybee 

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Learn how Arabella Lubbers, founder of Bushwalk Candles,  creates unique, Australian made scents to transport you to the Australian bush; her connection to Banjo Patterson, and how she supports local beekeepers and bees. Amazing! 🥰

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.

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
*The parallels between the health of bees + the health of humans in our current moment
*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

If you enjoyed the episode, also check out:
//Bees hold Sacred Time w/ Alysia Mazzella
Self-Care as Social Justice w/ Anana Harris Parris
Sovereignty + Responsibility w/ MaryGrace Allerdice

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Honeybee Democracy by Thomas Seeley

Today I am joined by Alysia Mazzella --  a traditional beeswax candlemaker and the author of Fourfold the Oracle, an oracle deck she created based on natural cycles of four. She is also the co-founder of Backland Gardens a project in upstate New York focusing on skill shares, education + self-sustainability.

WE DISCUSS /
*How she got into candle making -- a process that grew from a personal practice, honoring sacred time + a desire to be as close to nature as possible
*A historical narrative on human relating with bees and honey
*How bees model working relationships for social sustainability
*How having a livelihood directly related to bees orients her relationship to value and work
*Finding ethical, respectful, reciprocal ways of working with nature
*How bees teach her how to run her business
*Why local economy + purchasing from people you know is important for sustainability
*The benefits of beeswax candles compared to candles from other materials
*Why buying soy candles is supporting climate change
*Alysia’s personal practices with candles to hold sacred time
*The special spectrum of light from beeswax candles + how it interacts with our bodies

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Alysia's website: Use code MARYGRACE to get a discount
Alysia's IG
Mapping our Roles in Social Change Ecosystems (.pdf)
Honeyland documentary. Watch on Hulu.
Rotten: episode on fraudulent honey importation . You can also read this article.
Bliss, book by Peter Carey
Conflict is not Abuse, book by Sara Schulman
Farming While Black, book by Leah Penniman

Tomáš Libertíny is an artist and designer, who was born in Slovakia but currently lives and works in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. He burst into the wider consciousness with his Honeycomb Vase during Milan’s Design Week in 2007. For the extraordinary piece, Libertíny constructed vase-shaped beehive scaffolds and, essentially, let nature take its course, in a process he dubbed ‘slow prototyping’. The beeswax work took one week, and approximately 40,000 bees, to create. It is now in MoMA’s permanent collection in New York. 

Since then, the designer has worked with a range of other materials, including paper, which he turned on a lathe, ink from Bic biros, and hand-welded layers of stainless steel, as well as refining the Made by Bees series. 

He has had major solo exhibitions in Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Brussels, while his pieces are in the permanent collections of the Cincinnati Art Museum, Corning Museum of Glass and the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, to name just a handful.

In this episode we discuss: becoming a chat show host over lockdown; his love of literature; the importance of copying; and how exactly art is like a cat (while design is much more like a dog). But mostly we talk about his relationship with bees – why he came to work with them in the first place, and how they are about to collaborate on architectural-scale projects. 

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In this episode, Heather speaks with prior guests and friends of the podcast Chrissy and Jessica to learn all about bees. 🐝 Despite coming from different backgrounds on the topic (Jessica from Industry and Chrissy from Academia), they have a lot of the same messages in regards to bee health, colonies, concerns for bees, and ideas to help your local pollinators.  Plus we get into some myths about bees and do I need to watch now for murder hornets as well?

Some related links:
Waggle Dance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=LU_KD1enR3Q
Making Honey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZlEjDLJCmg

Antoinette Jackson is the CEO of Superbee, a social enterprise that produces everyday products that support green, sustainable lifestyle. They are famous for their beeswax wraps, but what is really fascinating is how Antoinette puts so much focus on the people in the company. She expresses how paying attention to the workers' happiness is key to producing good products and a lasting company.

Tras un verano investigando otras vertientes musicales... los llobos hoy volvemos a tener 2 voces en la 151ª madrugada juntos...
Solo por eso y por hacernos currar en Domingo ya tendríais que estar ahí ;-)
Multitud de novedades, estrenos y con el placer de contar con la música de Joe Lynn Turner, Rainbow, Unexpectance, BeesWax, Leather Boys, SWAP, Gun Machine, La Morgue, TIGRA, Electric Mary, Lendakaris Muertos, Saratoga, Virulency, Skama La Rede, NARCO, Iron Maiden, El Drogas, Trallery, Metallica, Rhapsody Of Fire, Get In Tribal y Warcry Oficial.
Os esperamos todas las  medianoches de Domingo a Lunes, pasamos llista llobooooossss!!
Diales de RPA en toda Asturies y parte del extranjero, canal en HD de la TPA o www.rtpa.es/radio ;-)