Interfaith Spiritual Travelers Circle
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Debra Roberts: The Sacred Path of Bees
First Speaker: When you first meet Debra Roberts there are two words you're likely to hear right away: bees, and Appalachia. Debra is a natural beekeeper and international honeybee educator, speaker, mentor, advocate, artist, and writer. She stewards her bee sanctuary in the Appalachian Mountains, where she and her husband Joe live outside Asheville, North Carolina.

She travels around the world to speak and teach on subjects like:
  • Natural Compassionate Beekeeping
    The Sacred Path of Bee: Beekeeping as a Sacred Practice
    Love as the Ultimate Activism
    Women and Beekeeping: Women’s Ways in the Apiary and How They are Changing Modern Apiculture
I am a honeybee educator, speaker, and advocate. I teach and travel around the world, and I am totally bee-sotted. I am not commercial and rarely harvest any honey. My bee sanctuary is right next to our house in the mountains of Western North Carolina. It is a place that is holy to me. I spend time there every day that I am in town. My path is to explore sacred relationship with the bees, to learn from them, and to inspire and support others in doing the same, and it is also to provide a safe place for bees to flourish in the world....

We depend on honeybees for over a third of the food we eat... It is my belief that many of the challenges in this world stem from our disconnect with nature -- both within us and outside of us. When we steward bees in a bee-centric rather than business-centric way, there is an opportunity to learn about the interconnectedness we share with all life.
    From an interview on With Five Questions.

    (Update: the original book title quoted in this article, The Song of Increase, Returning to Our Sacred Partnership with Honeybees, has been updated to Song of Increase: Listening to the Wisdom of Honeybees for Kinder Beekeeping and a Better World.)

More at About Debra Roberts.
Sunday, January 8, 2017, 9:00 - 10:30 AM Pacific Time You can find your corresponding local time at Time and Date. To join us for the videoconference, please RSVP below!  (limit: 25 participants) 

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