*Through a partnership with
Global Bees, DC Honeybees was able to help install two beehives at a
primary school in Almeria near Cusco, Peru. Here are our updates and stay tuned for more!*
WE BOUGHT OUR BEES TODAY! Our director, Oscar, came back from his
business trip, corraled me, Mads and Baltezar into his car, and drove us
to his “bee guy” in Cusco. Well, this was a friend of his former bee
guy who now is apparently a fugitive avoiding law enforcement somewhere
in Argentina. Sounds a little crazy, but apparently todos los apicultors
en Peru son un poco loco, and actually, that’s pretty much the same in
DC too. Anywho, I digress. Once we got to the Mundo de las Abejas de
Jossua (a self-proclaimed Gringo, according to his flyers) the
Quebecoise owner, Jossua, immediately starting falling all over himself
to help us out. We told him about Almeria and our current state of
funding, or better yet, lack thereof, and immeiately he jumped on board,
handing us some sort of cure-all diluted propolis spray por los ninos.
Over the course of what seemed like five hours, Jossua had — very
thouroughly — gone over the beekeeping basics, rattled off the same bee
statistics that Jeff Miller and I quote for DC Honeybees engagements,
scooped out taste-testers from each of his honey/pollen products, and
last but not least, showed us his nucleus colonies on the rooftop behind
his shop (sound familiar Jeff?)
