“By buzzing and quivering, leaning and turning, bees communicate remarkably accurate information.”
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Honey Bees, Worker Bees, and the Economic Violence of Land Grabs
In this collaboration with Economic Hardship Reporting Project, Melissa Chadburn challenges her own belief that environmental justice issues are reserved for people of privilege.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story, Unapologetic Women
Honey Bees, Worker Bees, and the Economic Violence of Land Grabs
Melissa Chadburn challenges her own belief that environmental justice issues are reserved for people of privilege.
Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Unapologetic Women
Honey Bees, Worker Bees, and the Economic Violence of Land Grabs
Melissa Chadburn challenges her own belief that environmental justice issues are reserved for people of privilege.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
Changing of the Guard, Bee-Style
When a queen bee dies, both her subjects and her beekeeper need to process the loss.
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Loyalty Nearly Killed My Beehive
When a queen bee dies on a Brooklyn rooftop, an amateur beekeeper follows (and meddles with) the bumpy succession process.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
The Successful Startup That Disrupts Using Bees Instead of Code
Fifth-generation beekeeper Leigh-Kathryn Bonner bucks convention in the male-dominated apiary industry.
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The Queen Bee of Downtown Durham
A profile of fifth-generation beekeeper Leigh-Kathryn Bonner, whose startup, Bee Downtown has 100 sponsored hives on the roofs of old tobacco warehouses in Durham, Raleigh, and Chapel Hill, North Carolina. The hives house thousands of bees who do their part to pollinate the cucumber, apple, and berry crops that are staples of North Carolina’s economy. […]
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Venom That Heals: How a Swarm of Bees Saved One Woman’s Life
For three days, she was in pain. Then, she wasn’t. “I had been living in this… I call it a brown-out because it’s like you’re walking around in a half-coma all the time with the inflammation of your brain from the Lyme. My brain just came right out of that fog. I thought: I can […]