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december 2017
Naturally Sweet Service
Luckily there was enough honey for me to
experience Bee Beautiful (80 min./$215), a body
treatment that begins with an application of warmed
lavender oil, followed by a homegrown calendula
and honey scrub. Earlier that day, I had partaken in
the A to Bee Experience, along with several other
resort guests. Meaning, we'd zipped into white
full-body beekeeping suits to help Carmel Valley
Ranch beekeepers feed new colonies, inspect hives
and remove the chambers where bees store excess
honey, called supers, so as to harvest the goods.
Climbing onto the treatment table, I had
a newfound appreciation for just how critical
our planet's most prolifi c pollinators are to the
ecosystem, and for their work ethic—I'd learned that
a single bee produces only about a teaspoon of
honey during its four- to six-week lifespan. I was still
thinking about how a queen becomes a queen—a self-selecting
process through which one bee per hive gains "superpowers," as
one beekeeper had put it, from a lifetime of consuming nutrient-
rich royal jelly rather than honey.
As I settled deeper into this fi t-for-a-queen experience, I
was still coming down from the adrenaline rush wrought by
venturing within the apiary—even though we'd been told that
bees have zero biological imperative to employ their self-
destructive stingers.
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