Melissa Bees – Pollinating the Earth with Gardens and Hives
In this clip Dr. Alan Dennison MD walks us through a Menuka Honey Preparation for a severe burn wound. The subject’s shin was burned by a scooter exhaust pipe in Aug. 2011, which she treated for three months using only honey from her hives and acupuncture. The preparation shown is using irradiated Menuka honey and […]
The Condit Dam in White Salmon, WA was breached today, near our home. One blocked artery opened so the earth blood can flow, allowing us all the chance to breath freely again. May the mighty Salmon thrive in these waters! She Flows: The White Salmon River Runs Free
When a honeybee colony’s population expands beyond the bounds of a hive, it will swarm, and in one reproductive act, depart with the original queen and 40,000 or so workers, leaving behind approximately the same amount of workers and soon-to-be hatched queens, one of which will mother the left-behind colony. When a swarm commences, the […]
Melissa Bees’ Chemical-Free Hive Honey: No miticides, fungicides, no treatment- nada! Just honey, as pure and raw as the bees who made it, imbued with pollen and propolis from the combs. Straight from the hills of White Salmon, WA in the magnificent Columbia River Gorge. 4 oz. Hex Jar $6.00 + shipping and handling 6 […]
Acupuncture with Bees, Naturally Session #3: Large Intestine 2 The Bee: Jeez Melissa, you’re giving us plenty of work these days! First your heart, then a cold, and now you say your upper jaw hurts? Seriously, the bees’ work is never done! Me: Yep, I had to have three baby teeth pulled a few weeks […]
Acupuncture with Bees, Naturally Session #2 Gall Bladder 13 Nnnnnnnnneeah, bzzzzzzzz bzzzzz, nnnnnnnnnnneeah the guard bee buzzed in my hair near my left temple. I see you aren’t feeling well, Sister she said. Yeah, I’ve had a cold that started five or six days ago with a sore throat and fever. Now it’s migrated to […]
One of my beginning students, Tamara Sutton, has taken to beekeeping with great verve and panache! Check out this beautiful home she created for her bees, not to mention the stylish and jaunty way she sports her veil. I’m looking forward to seeing more great work from her and her husband Louis -in the future, […]
What is a the distance bees fly and forage from the hive you ask? According to the GPS unit on our friends’ sailboat, they will fly 5.2 miles! These pictures were taken off Oaxaca, on Mexico’s Pacific Coast a few weeks ago when several bees came to visit us. Why were they so far out […]
Two Honeybee, Health and Healing Events in Hood River Vanishing of the Bees Documentary Screening and the Molly Bee Good Project Interested in Honeybees, Health and Healing? Join us for two nights of bee health and your health at the Columbia Gorge Acupuncture Clinic in Hood River, May 21st and 24th! Vanishing of the Bees […]
The sky parted and the sun shone brightly yesterday as Barb Fournier was crowned the Queen Bee of Marylhurst University, anointed indeed by her new honeybee colony! Barb took my beginning beekeeping class and wanted to get started with bees right away but lacked the space at her home, so she asked the University […]
White Salmon turned out en masse to show it’s support for bees and pollinators last weekend,with 80 plus attendees at the ‘We Need Bees’ seminar at the White Salmon Library. Jennifer Hull, gracious Community Librarian and our host commented, “Wow, there are more people here tonight than come out for music events!” Attendees spilled out […]
On the evening of April 1, beginning at 6:30 pm, at the White Salmon library, a variety of speakers will give 20-minute presentations about Honey bees and other native pollinators.It will begin with an introductory slide show given by Melissa Elliott of Melissa Bees, landscape designer, contractor and beekeeper. Topics covered will be the ‘Importance […]
Hosted by Melissa Bees Mar 15th 2011 Resource List Package Bees Order from Ruhl Bee now- arriving April 2nd http://www.ruhlbeesupply.com/ Sign up on Swarm List http://www.ruhlbeesupply.com/OregonHoneyBeeList.html http://www.bees-on-the-net.com/beekeeping-clubs.html http://www.bees-on-the-net.com/oregon-beekeepers.html http://www.beesource.com/forums/showthread.php?t=208185 http://www.orsba.org/htdocs/swarm_call_list.php ‘Hiving Illustrated’ Videos Hiving Package Bees for Langstroth: Beemaster.com http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5a4a-Tw-qFI Zen and the Art of Package Bees http://www.thebeeyard.org/?p=389 Package Hiving for Top Bar (Family Style): […]
Bees, the original acupuncturists. Want to experience real medicine? Keep bees! Here’s a story of a recent intake exam by the bees: “So Melissa, tell us -what’s ailing you?” Well, I’m experiencing a bout of PVC’s (pre-ventricular contractions) in my heart. I have a lot of work on my plate and it feels like there […]
When I looked out the window this morning the snow-blanketed hills were back lit with the blush of the rising sun. I grabbed my camera to capture the moment and almost caught the full effect before it stole completely away. Then I remembered how impressed my students were in class by the bees keeping a […]
Here in the Columbia River Gorge, the bees are beginning their forays into spring, collecting Alder pollen and minerals from the soil. That means they’re beginning to raise brood, or new babies. I’m seeing them clambering around on the soil a lot, particularly freshly dug areas, which leads me to write a story about how […]
A student from class last Tuesday wrote to say: I just want to do whatever I can to make it a happy place for the Bees…… That’s the spirit! Happy bees mean a happy garden and happy people and a happy and healthier earth. What can you do to make an easy Eden for yourself […]
KPOJ with Melissa
Dear Maryam and George: I stood there raw and unpracticed, with a hat in one hand and a microphone in the other facing a 200 plus crowd of people, asking them for money. One by one they rose from their seats as if on cue and came forward to make an offering; as if the […]
Listen in to Melissa Elliott of Melissa Bees chatting live with Carl Wolfson on his ‘Carl in the Morning’ show on 620 KPOJ, this Friday, Feb. 11th at 7:30 am!
Vanishing of the Bees Screening TaborSpace, SE Portland Feb. 11th, 7pm Melissa Bees presents the film, ‘Vanishing of the Bees’ which last weekend won Best Documentary at the Idyllwild Film Festival and is receiving worldwide recognition. It’s about the plight of the honeybee and the phenomenon known as CCD or Colony Collapse Disorder. The film […]
My limbs are heavy from lifting rocks all week. The weather is unusually good for early spring and I’m making the most of it, building a dry-stack wall of sedimentary stone chipped from the flanks of the Bitterroot Mountains in Montana. Its golden colors are exotic to our Northwestern landscape of gray igneous basalt. I’ve […]
