Coxsackie Bee Goods

06/18/2026

“What is more glorious than gold?”
“LIGHT!”
“What is more quickening than light?”
“CONVERSATION!”
-from Goethe’s fairytale “The Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily.”
I’m hopeful for blooming conversation in a world which offers more practice in interaction through data, presentation, and content rather than inquisitive conversation. I’m picking up that the apparent difficulties and obstacles to light-led conversation are a sign that the possibility of wisdom and love arriving through conversation has not only increased but are now manifold. All doors are always open. Yes? The space to do so arrives, in full awareness of it, and when mutually accepted, a bridge is crossed and something new arises. While lifting my lids on a beehive I ask prior to going inside “What do you want me to see?” The conversation afterwards never goes where I thought it would. Now it seems Chit Chat has other gifts and sometimes that is all I have energy for and grateful for not being overloaded with wisdom.

06/18/2026

Who’s been eating my Edamame and Spring Magnolia beans? Coming along so beautifully I looked forward to watering them everyday. In one row just stalks and dicot leaves left. Mouse, squirrel, chipmunk? An insect.

06/18/2026

Examining fallen things in my own backyard. Living maples. Less so now. 6/6/26

06/02/2026

Day #2. The swarm was not as “In The Pocket” as I thought. The cluster remained outside of the box overnight. I hung out with it this afternoon and as the bees slightly parted I caught a flash of some beautiful white comb they were building on the OUTSIDE of the swarm box. I coaxed them to another box underneath by holding up a frame of honey which appealed to about half of the cluster. On the frame and in the 2nd box they went and remained. When the bees started fanning on the top of the second swarm box 30 minutes later I figured “success,” but we’ll see.

06/01/2026

Some swarm right in the pocket. Greetings, Earthlings.

05/19/2026

Join Us 5/20/26 5:30PM at the Heermance Memorial Library in Coxsackie, NY. “To Be With the Bees” puts many perspectives on the screen about our relationships in the living world…some interests dictated by learning to observe the being in its own right and others shaped by material understanding of production. Is there a True picture which has endurance? Puzzle pieces are spread out on the table thanks to difficulties and hardships experienced by many. Can we consciously arrive at something greater than the thinking which created the problems? In the instance of bees, after circa 200 years of commercial manipulations, we find ourselbes and the natural world NOT in a “better” or “stronger” place. The same is said of commercial agriculture and monoculture. What is the better place and can we do this as sovereign beings who give a damn? The process of hearing many voices, as this film presents in a grand sweep of opinions, seems the way. Experience counts. Let’s hear it! We are all the teachers and all the students! Join us at the Heermance Memorial Library 5:30 pm 5/20/26.

05/16/2026

It’s been a couple of “interesting” swarm days. Here are a couple that looked like an ideal catch. It had other plans. In the hive it went. Outta the hive it went. Settled in a tall evergreen overnight and still undecided… hopefully about the 3 swarm traps and two empty hives for the picking. Actually held the Queen…a small black unmated Queen the coloring of which I had not seen before in a hive. It was so much easier last year when I had done less reading on swarms.

05/14/2026

Please come! Registration link below. Fundamentally this is a film about our relationship with nature and the many thoughts from farmers, scientists, beekeepers, and backyard gardeners/beekeepers navigating the arena of these challenging times. It just ain't easy, but we can face the challenge.

Join us for a screening of: To be with the Bees
“to be with the bees is a beautifully immersive 1 hour 30 film that raises awareness of the challenges bees face and invites us to reflect on our relationship with the natural world”
Registration Preferred. https://heermancelibrary.org/calendar/
Drop-in welcome.
Film followed by a brief Q & A.

05/10/2026

Lots of mothering going on here…and everywhere.