Nic Douse is the founder of Honeyfingers, which is a Melbourne-based urban beekeeping network, but also a creative project that works with different creatives to explore the intersection between bees and humanity in the fields of music, art, history, design and education. Subscribe 🔔 http://ab.co/GA-subscribe

European honeybees have been part of human culture for millennia, providing us with candle wax, leather and wood polish, honey, mead and pollinating our crops.
All of Honeyfingers work centres around the beauty of bees and bee culture.

Honeyfingers is keen to bring beekeeping back to cities and manages hives in Melbourne’s inner north and east, in community gardens and private gardens and some rooftops.

Karina is learning about beekeeping from Nic. Before opening a hive Karina has learnt to be in a state of calm, as this reduces the risk of being stung. She says she feels a greater sense of awareness since she started working with bees.
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