Of course, to do this you need all the right products-which is where our 2022 Healthy Beauty Award winners come in. A smudge of neutral eyeshadow and well-defined brows can add polish to your daily glow, while dark and dramatically lined eyes coupled with long, voluminous lashes can instantly turn any evening into a red carpet moment. The best mascaras, eyeshadows, eyeliners and brow products can truly define the mood and the formality of any look. There is nothing nicer than being a bee guardian and benefiting from the excess honey they produce, rather than a ‘farmer’ who’s focus is volume of honey over bee wellbeing.If your foundation and blush set the stage, then your eyes and brows are where the real drama unfolds. I have sugar powder to puff on them (so they groom and clean themselves as a basic varroa treatment) and a water mister – a couple of sprays and they keep their heads down because the girls hate getting wet! Removing one bar at a time and closing the space with the follower board kept the colony enclosed and warm. I have no plans to use smoke, my first inspection yesterday during a huge pollen flow and chaos around the hive saw no problems at all. Honey is collected in small amounts over time, always ensuring enough honey is left for the colony – feeding is kept to a minimum. Also, inspections are much less invasive and generally TBH beekeepers LISTEN and OBSERVE the bees, trying to work with them. I decided on a Top Bar Hive (TBH) in preference to National/Langstroff hives because a TBH allows the bees more freedom to behave in a more natural way and create comb of their choice. If there were no beekeepers there would be very few bees – BUT, if there were no beekeepers the varroa mite would probably never have got to the UK. The UK has big varroa mite problems and our native black bee is all but extinct. The whole natural discussion is interesting and sits quite well with my day life which is new baby communication. I picked up a Top Bar Hive and colony last Friday. I’m in the South East UK, it’s early spring here. If you asked the bees their opinion of human interlopers, I’m sure it wouldn’t be good-no matter what techniques they ascribe to. Natural beekeeping is something you can aspire to, strive for, but you’ll never actually achieve. I would argue that even those beekeepers on the extreme natural end of the curve-those that consider themselves super natural beekeepers-aren’t really. Don’t let people intimidate you into a definition of naturalness that doesn’t fit with your own goals, beliefs, experience, or financial means. If you are a beginner, I think it is important to find your own place on the continuum. And if you are keeping bees-managing bees-you have already crossed the line into unnaturalness. My point is that naturalness is a relative thing. Harvesting honey, pollen, propolis, or wax.Making the bees build up when the want to build down or vice versa (brood nest management).Artificial feed, including sugar and pollen substitutes.
The following things are definitely unnatural, at least from the bees’ perspective: Where else might you draw the line? Well, like I said, it depends on who you talk to, but here are a few ideas. But what about organic acids or essential oils for mite control? Some say it is okay, some say it is not. For example, most beekeepers agree that using chemical pesticides precludes one from being natural. Some aspects of beekeeping engender more argument than others. So if you are keeping bees in a manmade structure and you try to prevent them from leaving (swarming), you’ve created an unnatural situation-one that does not exist in nature. Bees don’t naturally live under the care of humans they would rather do it their own way. So what is a natural beekeeper? As Phillip over at Mudsongs recently pointed out, the phrase “natural beekeeper” is an oxymoron. Labels come with a host of expectations which are different depending on who’s listening. So I don’t bother with a label because it just confuses people. On some issues you could call me left (liberal) and on other issues you could call me right (conservative). If I call what I do natural, it will just elicit argument from those whose definition is different from my own. On this website, I’ve deliberately avoided calling my style of beekeeping natural, although it is much closer to natural than unnatural.
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