Keeping Bees in this "Modern” World

“The way things stand now, bees can’t be kept just anywhere in this modern world of ours – not to mention kept using natural methods. There are several reasons for this: huge swaths of land planted with monocultures, catastrophically impoverished and polluted natural environments, the large-scale use of pesticides and GMOs (genetically modified organisms). At the same time, a tremendous number of valuable crops (including fruit) depend on bee pollination. Therefore, so-called developed countries have recently been sounding the alarm concerning a sharp drop in the number of bee colonies, but there’s nothing they can do about it. After all, improving the situation would require moving in a completely different direction and beginning to search for an alternative path for all of humanity. Are we prepared to do that?”

Excerpt from Keeping Bees with a smile: Principles and Practice of Natural Beekeeping