I watched "The Last Beekeeper" on the Planet Green channel yesterday...
And I was absolutely mesmerized.
It's a documentary that follows several beekeepers in different parts of the nation as they try to figure out why so many of each of their colonies are randomly dying.
You may have heard stories in the news in the last few years that have mentioned the unexplained decline in bee colonies over the last few years. The film documents how beekeepers and experts across the nation have been baffled by the unexplained deaths and are scrambling to figure out whether disease, parasites or maybe even stress are to blame for the hemorrhaging loss of their financial investments.
Apparently, the current "bread & butter" of beekeepers is not in harvesting honey - these days, beekeepers travel thousands of miles across the country with their hives to get paid for their bees to pollinate crops. Some crops, such as almonds, rely solely on bees... so more and more beekeepers have been forced to abandon the honey industry, which turns little profit, for the larger promise of pollination contracts.
If you have a chance to catch this flick, please give it a chance. It is surprisingly moving and inescapably captivating.
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