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Lui bee farm Aruba

ORANJESTAD — Honey bees wild and all animals. Luis started work-
and domestic perform about 80 ing with bees when he was only
percent of all pollination world- 15 years old. At that time there
wide. A single bee colony can pol- were no special equipment to use
linate 300 million flowers each day. when working with bees such as
Grains are primarily pollinated by face masks and smokers. Luis used
the wind, but fruits, nuts and veg- to make his own face protection
etables are pollinated by bees. equipment from wired screens
Seventy out of the top 100 human sewed to a t-shirt. He also cut out
food crops — which supply about the legs of his jeans to use them to
90 percent of the world’s nutrition protect his arms and as smoker he
— are pollinated by bees. used cookie cans.
11 Years ago Luis met 3 young peo-
Seeing the importance of saving ple who love bees and saw the im-
the bees Aruba is not staying be- portance that these bees have for at their homes. Luis together with whole island. Honey is very benefi-
hind. We have many people in- the humanity. Giles, Jourdan and Giles, Jourdan and Suyen have cial for your overall health and is
terested in saving and protecting Suyen. With much passion and been all over the island bringing very important for the human be-
these bees. Many are practicing all the patience in the world Luis their passion and knowledge in or- ing. Honey products are daily used
Apiculture which consists of saving taught these 3 youngsters every- der to save these bees. for as medicine and in many beau-
and protecting the bees with the thing they needed to know about ty products.
sole purpose to produce honey lo- bees. From there started the idea Organic honey:
cally. One of these persons is the of the farm. To save and protect At Lui Bee farm Aruba they have Most of the time bees rescued
very well-known on the island Mr. these bees. They all try to dem- special bee boxes which are filled from houses are in swarm or have
Luis Winterdaal, founder of Lui Bee onstrate and teach the people of with bees that were rescued from been there for years. Common
Farm Aruba. Aruba the importance these bees different houses and locations places to find bees are: under the
have. Their vision is to save as much all around the island. Not always roof, on the roof, ceiling, in trees, in
Luis Winterdaal was born and bees as possible from being killed. when rescuing bees you will find tires, on the walls, bird cages, un-
raised in Aruba on October 10th For more than 45 years Luis has honey. Sometimes you will find the der containers even in septic tanks
1954 in the city of Savaneta. A per- been helping our people of Aruba wax with only baby bees and if anywhere you can think of is pos-
son with great love for the nature to solve any type of bee problems you are lucky you will find wax filled sible. They have even been called
with honey. several times at hotels to remove
The honey from the boxes at their hives from a bedroom or from the
location are not being emptied rooftop.
every time why? Because of the
lack of rain on the island, most of At Lui Bee Farm they know how
the time it’s very dry and this can important these bees are for our
be very stressful for the bees. Why environment therefore when assist-
the stress? Because they have to ing at removing these hives they
make new wax and also in such will stay there until they find the
dry period they use honey to feed ‘queen’. Who naturally is the most
themselves to survive. important for the production of
the honey. Whenever they find her
Honey that they produce and sell their job is done.
at their farm does not contain any According to Luis bees in Aruba
chemicals. Their honey goes di- are not aggressive. If you leave
rectly from the wax to the bottles. them alone and don’t disturb them
The whole process takes place at they won’t attack you. Therefore
their own facility. They encounter Lui Bee Farm kindly requests you
all types of color of honey on the to help the bees by putting water
island from light to black honey. around the house. Especially dur-
Since they depend very much on ing dry seasons. These bees need
the water/rain for these bees to as much flowers and water as pos-
survive the production of see is sible in order to survive. Please do
not consistent. Lui Bee Farm wishes not kill them!! To Lui Bee Farm a
to someday be able to produce world without bees is like a dessert
enough honey to distribute to the without food!!q