Ang Roell: Collective care and responsiveness in the hives of honeybees

Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration

kaméa chayne

Nature, Alternative Health, Society & Culture, Philosophy, Health & Fitness, Science

4.9 • 661 Ratings

🗓️ 26 December 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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“One in four bites of our food is pollinated by honeybees, but at what cost in the system that we are in now? How could that look different if our agriculture was more localized, regionalized, and sustainable?”

In this episode, we warmly welcome Ang Roell—founder of They Keep Bees—to discuss their practice of working and learning with honeybees as models of resilience, care, and responsiveness. Ang’s work, which demystifies bees to decenter logics of power-over relations and consumer-driven work culture, frames a conversation around how we might learn from hive-lives in times of collapse.

Join us in this invitation to re-member our webs of interdependence—to slow down, swarm together, and work within rhythmic fields of collective care. And join us in alchemize: radical imagination for collective transformation, to experience two practices led by Ang: “You are a honeybee” and “Pollinating networks of collective care.”

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1:10.4	In this system, honeybees are exploited as a labor and a cost of doing business, which
1:17.6	doesn't create a relationship with any reciprocity or care or tending within it because
1:25.6	it just can't, because it's extractive by nature.
1:30.6	And so, yes, like one in four bites of our food is pollinated by honeybees, but at what cost
1:36.7	in the system that we are in now?
1:39.1	And how could that look different if our agriculture was more localized, regionalized, and sustainable.
1:48.6	You're listening to Green Dreamer, and I'm your host, Kamehashane. Today we are speaking with
1:54.2	Anne Role, a facilitator, thought leader, and dreamweaver. They reside in the Connecticut River
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