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Lui bee farm Aruba

with bees that were rescued from from houses are in swarm or have
different houses and locations been there for years. Common
all around the island. Not always places to find bees are: under the
when rescuing bees you will find roof, on the roof, ceiling, in trees, in
honey. Sometimes you will find the tires, on the walls, bird cages, un-
wax with only baby bees and if you der containers even in septic tanks
are lucky you will find wax filled anywhere you can think of is pos-
with honey. sible. They have even been called
The honey from the boxes at their several times at hotels to remove
location are not being emptied hives from a bedroom or from the
every time why? Because of the rooftop.
lack of rain on the island, most of
the time it’s very dry and this can At Lui Bee Farm they know how
be very stressful for the bees. Why important these bees are for our
ORANJESTAD — Honey bees, wild raised in Aruba on October 10th the stress? Because they have to environment therefore when assist-
and domestic, perform about 80 1954 in the city of Savaneta. A per- make new wax and also in such ing at removing these hives they
percent of all pollination world- son with great love for the nature dry period they use honey to feed will stay there until they find the
wide. A single bee colony can pol- and all animals. Luis started work- themselves to survive. ‘queen’. Who naturally is the most
linate 300 million flowers each day. ing with bees when he was only Honey that they produce and sell important for the production of
Grains are primarily pollinated by 15 years old. At that time there at their farm does not contain any the honey. Whenever they find her
the wind, but fruits, nuts and veg- was no special equipment to use chemicals. Their honey goes di- their job is done.
etables are pollinated by bees. when working with bees such as rectly from the wax to the bottles. According to Luis bees in Aruba
Seventy out of the top 100 human face masks and smokers. Luis used The whole process takes place at are not aggressive. If you leave
food crops — which supply about to make his own face protection their own facility. They encounter them alone and don’t disturb them
90 percent of the world’s nutrition equipment from wired screens all types of color of honey on the they won’t attack you. Therefore
— are pollinated by bees. sewed to a t-shirt. He also cut out island from light to black honey. Lui Bee Farm kindly requests you
the legs of his jeans to use them to Since they depend very much on to help the bees by putting water
Seeing the importance of saving protect his arms and as smoker he the water/rain for these bees to around the house. Especially dur-
the bees Aruba is not staying be- used cookie cans. survive the production of see is ing dry seasons. These bees need
hind. We have many people in- 11 Years ago Luis met 3 young peo- not consistent. Lui Bee Farm wishes as much flowers and water as pos-
terested in saving and protecting ple who love bees and saw the im- to someday be able to produce sible in order to survive. Please do
these bees. Many are practicing portance that these bees have for enough honey to distribute to the not kill them!! To Lui Bee Farm a
Apiculture which consists of saving the humanity: Giles, Jourdan and whole island. Honey is very benefi- world without bees is like a dessert
and protecting the bees with the Suyen. With much passion and cial for your overall health and is without food!!
sole purpose to produce honey lo- all the patience in the world Luis very important for the human be- For more information call them at
cally. One of these persons is the taught these 3 youngsters every- ing. Honey products are daily used 593-6694, email luibeefarmaruba@
very well-known on the island Mr. thing they needed to know about for as medicine and in many beau- gmail.com or check their Face-
Luis Winterdaal, founder of Lui Bee bees. From there started the idea ty products. book page Lui bee farm aruba or
Farm Aruba. of the farm. To save and protect follow them on Instagram @luib-
Luis Winterdaal was born and these bees. They all try to dem- Most of the time bees rescued eefarmaruba. q
onstrate and teach the people of
Aruba the importance these bees
have. Their vision is to save as much
bees as possible from being killed.
For more than 45 years Luis has
been helping our people of Aruba
to solve any type of bee problems
at their homes. Luis together with
Giles, Jourdan and Suyen have
been all over the island bringing
their passion and knowledge in or-
der to save these bees.

Organic honey:
At Lui Bee farm Aruba they have
special bee boxes which are filled