Aurora and Luca make a stop at Samuel’s, Calabria in the ascent that will take them north from host to host. Ancestral land, for Aurora, but also a land of discovery: the industriousness of the bees, which they will learn about here, is mirrored in that of the men who, amidst a thousand difficulties, continue to raise them and live symbiotically with them. Happy reading!

The explorer bees set off to discover a comfortable place and then return to their companions and say “girls we found a location that is too top, ‘nduma!” Gradually they all come out, the queen last, well protected. And they leave. And hello. Hi honey.

…The truth is that unless you deal with the countryside you don’t know how bees work and you don’t know what a beehive looks like inside. Movies there are almost none, books neither. There is Bee Movie which is a beautiful cartoon but not enough. And so when you see one for the first time and you realize what a freaking crazy, complex society these little bugs have of course you fall in love….

https://aurorafaletti.substack.com/p/wwoofing-in-calabria-miele-orsi-e