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Little Bee Mystique is a seasonal practice devoted to ecology, bees, and herbs, rooted in relationship rather than control. With workshops, devotional gatherings, and botanical offerings, I guide people into deeper connection with the land, following the rhythms of bloom, rest, and renewal. I work with plants and pollinators not as resources but as teachers, inviting care, attention, and presence as ways of tending both our inner and outer landscapes.
WHY I BEGAN THIS WORK?
I didn’t begin this work with a business plan.
I began because I felt disconnected < from land, from season, from my own body.
Beekeeping entered my life at a time when I needed structure and rhythm. The hive required consistency. It required observation. It required patience.
Plants followed naturally. The more I paid attention to pollinators, the more I understood that herbs and flowers were not separate from that ecosystem. Everything was relational.
What started as learning how to keep bees became learning how to listen.
Over time, that listening turned into study. Study turned into practice. Practice turned into sharing.
Little Bee Mystique grew from that progression, slowly, season by season.
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A Sprinkle of Divine Wisdom
eros, queen-dom of flowers, the nymphs, :: experiences that merge the living mythic with modern needs, informed by the bees.
I work with honeybees as both ecological beings and living symbols.
Across cultures, the hive has carried mythic and feminine resonance, a model of collective intelligence, devotion, and cyclical order. That lineage still moves through my work.
But symbol alone is not enough.
My practice is rooted in observation, seasonal timing, and the daily responsibilities of tending living colonies. I do not approach bees as units of production, but as complex communities with their own rhythms and autonomy.
As a woman in bee guardianship, I am part of a growing shift away from extractive models toward stewardship grounded in listening. The hive becomes both teacher and mirror, not metaphor only, but organism.
Little Bee Mystique exists where plant medicine, pollinator ecology, and seasonal education meet. Myth and soil are not separate here. They inform one another.
This is slow work. Cyclical. Place-based. Guided by the understanding that we are participants in living systems, not masters of them.
Roothed in Practice My Path
My work with bees and plants began in 2010, when I moved from California to New York with the intention of living more closely with land and season.
What began as beeswax craft and herbal study gradually deepened into hands-on bee guardianship, horticulture, and biodynamic land stewardship.
I tended my first honeybee colonies at Midwinter Farms in Ancram and later traveled to Spikenard Honeybee Sanctuary in West Virginia, where ecosystem-centered beekeeping reshaped my understanding of non-extractive care.
From 2016–2018, I worked as a horticultural manager and organic flower and herb gardener in Connecticut while formalizing my herbal studies through the Herbal Academy.
In the years that followed, my practice expanded into collaborative farming, floral design, apothecary work, and women-led earth-based workshops- including co-facilitating Sacred Honeybee gatherings in Tuscany.
Over the past decade, this work has evolved season by season, always grounded in observation, reciprocity, and respect for natural systems.
when we open our minds to otherworlds...
you become in tune with the seasons, natural rhythms, and the cycles of life
an unspoken language comes naturally
The path of the Honeybee is Ecstasy
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Did you know that bees are one of the only other species that have been shown to communicate with symbolic language, dancing, to indicate where the abundant nectar source is in direction of the sun?