Earth Speak with Natalie Ross and Friends: Beekeeper Ang Roell on the Wisdom of Bees and Building Resilient, Collaborative Communities [episode 21]

Beekeeper Ang Roell on the Wisdom of Bees and Building Resilient, Collaborative Communities [episode 21]

Jul 9, 2020

Ang Roell shares about rethinking community and collaboration, through re-connection with the honey bee. You’ll also hear about:

Community centred agriculture
Creating access to beekeeping for queer communitites
A lineage of prophetic dreamers
Reconnecting with our ancestors through Earth based practices

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Ang Roell is a beekeeper, educator, writer, evaluator, and facilitator, from They Keep Bees and Mainspring Change Consultants, living and working in the US. They Keep Bees connects humans and honeybees in a cooperative learning community. Exploring how people access beekeeping, how people participate in beekeeping, and who has access to creating relationships with honey bees. Their work highlights the need to rethink our relationship with the natural world, and specifically our extractive relationship with honey bees. Remembering them as teachers for collaborative, cooperative, and reciprocal relationships, and communities. Ang’s book Radicalize the Hive is available to download for free on their website.

In this episode, we talk about:

Intuitive beekeeping
Creating new lineages of beekeepers
Reconnecting and remembering our ancestors through Earth based practices
How Ang’s work of increasing equity and inclusion in business, is influenced by the ecological world
The human induced challenges currently facing the honey bee
The parallels between honey bee health and human health
An ancient connection between humans and bees
The honey bee as a teacher, not a resource
Creating cooperative models for the future
The queen bee as the heartbeat of the hive
Non-hierarchical roles within the hive, that support the bee community
Naming both our privilege and our vulnerability
Creating opportunities to be bridges between communities
Using our collective power to move forward and create the kind world we want
Why white led business’s need to be accountable to histories of harm
Building trust and accountability as a community
Connecting to the Earth and our bodies - to witness the grief and trauma created by capitalist / colonial systems
What resilience could look like in our communities
Why guilt and shame don’t always work as tools for change
Holding space to be wrong and make mistakes
Community centred agriculture
Creating queer role models in agriculture, and access to beekeeping for queer communitites
Starting small and building thoughtfully, to develop a relationship with expansion and contraction
Bees as asexual femes - living collectively
And we chat about Ange’s free downloadable book, Radicalize the Hive!

Bonus Secret Episode! Get the secret episode where Ang Roell takes us on a tour of their bees, at https://www.earthspeak.love/secret.

Earth Speak with Natalie Ross and Friends

Beekeeper Ang Roell on the Wisdom of Bees and Building Resilient, Collaborative Communities [episode 21]

Beekeeper Ang Roell on the Wisdom of Bees and Building Resilient, Collaborative Communities [episode 21]

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