FarmingGERC2019PermaculturePresenters

Benjamin Pixie – Honey Co.

Business-Organization: Pixie Honey Co, & Skalitude LLC

Benjamin Pixie is a plant romancer (herbalist), revolutionary bee centered beekeeper, & alchemist. He uses poetry as a radical tool of human feeding of non-human beings. He is currently running the Skalitude wilderness retreat center, a founder of a budding eco-village community and building a bee sanctuary in the wilds of Washington’s Methow valley. This land is named Skalitude (to be in harmony with nature) and holds space for humans to live in balance with wilderness and will be planting permaculture food forests/ forage gardens to be a resource toward future human bee collaboration for the thrival & liberation of all beings

Carlton, WA
USA

360-790-3401

Website: https://www.skalitude.com/

Social Media: https://www.facebook.com/benjamin.pixie

Workshop(s)

Workshop 1: The Magic and Medicine of the Honey Bee

Learn about the ways honey bees are working hard to save the humans & the diversity of life on this planet and how we can work with them as our teachers and guides.

Honey Bees are the little winged cupids of the plants- whose love work feeds the fecundity of life and teaches how to practice civilization in service to diversity & fertility.

Through poetry, myth, story & science this class will dive deep into the role of Bees as stewards of the fecundity of life and teachers of alternative styles of civilization that promote diversity.

Through myth, story and honey tasting this class will ingest the sweet plant medicines of the bees while exploring the bitterness of our current experiments in civilization. Come and learn how to be a better bee ally and repair our relationships with the wild plants, the ecosystems in which they dwell & heal colony collapse disorder through creating healthier habitat. Through remembering & celebrating the gifts of the plants, & listening to and furthering the magig and gifts of the bees we can turn the tide of our agricultural practices from nutrient devoid monoculture wastelands to refugia of diversity, vitality and the delicious flowering of life!


Workshop 2: No 2nd workshop has been scheduled.