Nutrinest has their relocated nests recuperating in an eco garden in The Ashram.

I was pleasantly surprised to be greeted with a quaint yet, fully self-sufficient garden.

The garden presented an entire food cycle and was self-sufficient with its own resources.There was a little chicken coop where there were several chickens, chicks and eggs. The garden is filled with a variety of plants. No pesticides or chemicals are used. Even the fertilisers used on the plants were self-made using composting.

 

The bees simply completed the cycle by acting as the pollinators of the plants that allowed them to bear fruit and proliferate.

 

 

Mr Xavier explained how most of the hives in the garden are only staying temporarily. The garden is just a place for them to stablilise as a hive before they are relocated to a permanent home. While Mr Xavier showed me some of the hives that were housed at the garden, we encountered an ant infestation in one of the hives.

The bees had no choice but to build their combs while avoiding the ants and resulted in the combs being perpendicular to the racks placed in the box instead of parallel.

So Mr Xavier quickly got down to work and put on his protective gear to remove the ant infestation.

Despite me standing without protective gear in the vicinity of disturbed buzzing bees who had their home taken apart for cleaning, the bees did not disturb me, much less sting me. They seemed to be checking me out, then promptly flew back to their home after the cleaning was done. This shows how bees are not dangerous and do not sting for no reason.

From the visit, I learnt that the conservation of bees involves a lot more than just bees. It is a whole cycle of bees and its environment of plants. The bees only form a greater whole of the pollination cycle for the plants, while it forms an even greater whole of the eco system. Nutrinest is not situated in a farm, but in an eco garden, filled with other components of nature, not just with bees. This exemplifies how the conservation of bees should be viewed and treated!

For anyone who is interested in helping out at the Ashram to tend to the fruits and veggies, you can find Mr Xavier’s contact here!