Swarm with Patrick Pynes

From NAU  Sustainability Dept.

Our friend Patrick Pynes is honoring the new spring season with an upcoming event he calls SWARM. Come learn about bees, honey, sexuality, democracy and more! See his description below for details.

SWARM

Behold!! A SWARM of honeybees in springtime, one of the most powerful and “terrifying” forces of Nature. 5,000 or more bees and their mother (the queen) boil out of their home and go searching for a new one, leaving half of their sisters and a virgin queen behind.

For humans, honeybee SWARMS can provoke biophilia (love for the rest of Nature) and/or biophobia (fear of the rest of Nature), although SWARMS don’t sting.

But what IS a SWARM really? And what can beekeepers do to encourage/discourage SWARMS and to catch or harvest them? Butterflies are free, and so are SWARMS.

SWARMS have everything to do with springtime, with wild sexuality and the sun, multiple partners, and rainbow-colored flowers; and with Democracy, intelligence, and fishing, but not for fish.

In this two hour presentation and workshop, local organic top bar beekeeper Dr. Patrick Pynes of Honeybeeteacher LLC will teach you everything that you’ve wanted to know about SWARMS, but were afraid to ask. Music, photographs, and video included. Local raw honey for sampling and sale.

Audience limited to 10-12 people who will meet outdoors, or in a well-ventilated building, if the weather is too cold or windy.

Date: Saturday, April 10, 2021, ten a.m. to noon.

Place: The Center for Organic Beekeeping (COB) in Slayton Ranch/Doney Park, Arizona, near Flagstaff.

Tuition: 20 dollars suggested donation, more or less, depending upon your circumstances.

To RSVP/Directions: Write to Patrick at this e-mail address: honeybeeteacher@gmail.com, or send a text message to (928) 600-1193.

“First Come, First Served.” Children, young people, and elders welcome