Natural Beekeeping is managing bees without synthetic chemicals or antibiotics low-intervention, approach prioritizing bee health over maximum honey production and avoiding artificial feeding. This method focuses on fostering resilient, locally adapted colonies. Natural Beekeeping is what we strive for with the hives that we manage at Root Revival Park City Utah.
Unlocking Honey Bee Secrets
The Complete Idiot's Guide To Beekeeping
"Honeybees are the most studied creatures on the planet, second only to humans. Someone was the first to discover that smoke would drive bees out of their cavity and minimize alarm, what time of year there was likely to be the most honey, and that breathing on bees tends to rile them up. Such knowledge is, of course, the result of observation and study.
Working with them, trying to unlock their secrets, is both satisfying and engaging. This is the big secret: bees are more interesting than honey.
Industrial Beekeeping
Unfortunately, beekeeping has suffered--along with all of agriculture--from the introduction of modern high-yeild techniques and industrial-scale approaches. Think about monocrop farming, feedlot cattle, chickens with their beaks removed, and excessive and improper application of pesticides. Similarly, many of our attempts to manipulate the natural processes of the bees have been careless and misguided, and we have treated Mother Nature's generosity with greed. We should know better.
Most beekeepers actually put chemicals in their beehives, or that beekeepers (yes, even the sweet old man at the end of the dirt road who sells honey out of his garage) feed their bees sugar or high-fructose corn syrup. It's shocking that beekeepers don't question these practices, and that some treatments are so common that beekeepers don't even consider them treatments anymore--they've become baseline beekeeping.
What we offer here is a treatment-free approach. We say "treatment-free"because even "organic" and "natural" beekeeping allow for chemical treatments and management practices that are detrimental to long-term health and vitality of the honeybee. An understanding of how bees function in the natural world so you can develop a mutually beneficial relationship with them"
Natural Beekeeping Principles
Natural Beekeeping builds healthier hives, honey, and local environment. It is a good principle to strive for. We understand that sometimes artificial methods can be needed. Beekeeping is working with nature. We believe in using Natural Beekeeping Principals as much as possible.
