520: Natural Beekeeping, The Best Honey, And How To Help Bees With Nathalie B.
Wise Traditions
Weston A. Price Foundation
4.7 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2025
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Why are bees so important for our food supply and for life on this earth? How is "natural beekeeping" different from regular beekeeping? What are horizontal hives? And what can we do to protect natural bees in our area? And what's the deal with honey? How do we find the best source?
Nathalie B. has answers to all of the above in today's podcast. She goes over why honey is considered a superfood and often referred to as 'liquid sunshine,' sharing its powerful nutritional and healing benefits. And she explains what it is like to be a natural beekeeper and how you could even start an apiary in your own backyard!
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| 0:00.0 | From the Weston A. Price Foundation, welcome to the Wise Traditions podcast for wise traditions in food, farming, and the healing arts. |
| 0:13.9 | We are your source for scientific knowledge and traditional wisdom to help you achieve optimal health. |
| 0:22.9 | And now here is our host and producer Hilda Labrata Gore. |
| 0:28.3 | Hey, Hilda here. |
| 0:30.8 | Are we in danger of losing bees altogether because of colony collapse? |
| 0:35.7 | Why is raw honey different and better than what we find in little |
| 0:40.4 | plastic bears on the supermarket shelves? And if we want to help bees, does that mean we all need |
| 0:46.1 | to become beekeepers? This is episode 520 and our guest today is Natalie Bee. Natalie is the creator and |
| 0:53.4 | owner of Be Mindful, a full service beekeeping company |
| 0:58.0 | that offers a comprehensive and wide range of services, including beekeeping apprenticeships |
| 1:03.6 | and workshops in sustainable and natural beekeeping situations as well as offering affordable, |
| 1:10.0 | practical horizontal hives and treatment-free |
| 1:12.5 | bees. Natalie today goes over the amazing benefits of honey and how we can help bees and know we |
| 1:20.8 | don't have to all become beekeepers to do so. And she goes over why she's not particularly |
| 1:25.8 | worried about colony collapse either. |
| 1:28.3 | That said, she explains how we can get going if we want to start a small apiary in our backyard or rooftop |
| 1:36.3 | and what we can do to support the natural bees in our environment, whatever we do. |
| 1:41.3 | Before we get into the conversation, I want to invite you to become a member of the |
| 1:44.9 | Weston A Price Foundation. Did you know it's only $30 for the year? Yes, using the code pod 10. |
| 1:51.6 | And when you join hands with us, you continue our important work of education, research, and |
| 1:56.5 | activism. And on this, our 25th anniversary of the West Ender Price Foundation, you can become |
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