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Artemis Smiles

The Bee Sanctuary

The Bee Sanctuary

The Bee Sanctuary

Artemis Smiles is a Honeybee Sanctuary where the loving, reverent and mutually beneficial relationship bees once enjoyed with humans is being restored.  Honeybee ‘shaman’ Alison Yahna founded the sanctuary in 2002.  The sanctuary provides a loving space for Honeybees to live according to their own ancient wisdom and help us humans remember how to live in harmony with Nature.

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The Bee Sanctuary

The Bee Sanctuary
Artemis Smiles is a Honeybee Sanctuary where the loving, reverent and mutually beneficial relationship bees once enjoyed with humans is being restored. …
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The Mother Temple

The Mother Temple

The Mother Temple

The Mother Temple is a devotional community honoring the Divine Feminine as life-sustaining Mother Nature, especially in Her form as the Honeybee.  We venerate the Honeybee for the Divine Intelligence she embodies and re-establish a sacred relationship with her in this age.  We honor her in all the ways she has appeared in human consciousness as spiritual teacher and guide, who reveals to us the ancient truths and new awareness needed to move through this time of social and ecological crisis.

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The Mother Temple

The Mother Temple
The Mother Temple is a devotional community honoring the Divine Feminine as life-sustaining Mother Nature, especially in Her form as the Honeybee.  We v…
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Offerings

Bee Removal, Rescue & Relocation

Bee Removal, Rescue & Relocation

Bee Removal, Rescue & Relocation

Because sometimes our golden friends choose their new home in walls,  electrical boxes or other inconvenient locations.  I can remove and relocate most swarms and colonies to our Sanctuary, or help you set up your own garden hive.

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Bee Removal, Rescue & Relocation

Bee Removal, Rescue & Relocation
Because sometimes our golden friends choose their new home in walls,  electrical boxes or other inconvenient locations.  I can remove and relocate most …
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Order Honey

Order Honey

Order Honey

Our honey is gently and humanely harvested comb by comb.  Made from Hawaiian flower nectars the bees gather in pristine mountain and coastal forests, our varietal honey is among the rarest and highest quality in the world.  Because we harvest only when it is beneficial for the bees, quantities are limited.  Please use the form below to place an order.

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Order Honey

Order Honey
Our honey is gently and humanely harvested comb by comb.  Made from Hawaiian flower nectars the bees gather in pristine mountain and coastal forests, ou…
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Tours, Education & Mentorship

Tours, Education & Mentorship

Tours, Education & Mentorship

Artemis Smiles offers a number of services to support the Honeybees and their Keepers.  These include custom tours, beekeeping education workshops and mentorship, bee-bed sessions, and our exciting global Bee Grid project.

Whether you are meeting the Bees for the first time or want to deepen your connection with these marvelous creatures, we would love to hear from you.

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Tours, Education & Mentorship

Tours, Education & Mentorship
Artemis Smiles offers a number of services to support the Honeybees and their Keepers.  These include custom tours, beekeeping education workshops and m…
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Reflections

Marion Deschenes, Canada

I am a traveller who came to Big Island in hope to meet the bees and to learn all about them. How grateful I am to have met Alison! I spent 3 weeks with her in beautiful Ka’u. Not only did I have the chance to learn how she respectfully takes care of “her babies”, but I also got to witness her spiritual ways of talking and interacting with them. Her philosophy and practices deeply resonated for me, as I knew deep down in my heart, that it is possible to care for bees without all the fuss of bee suits, expensive equipment and medications. I also got to participate in a highly complex bee rescue and relocation – a wonderful hive thriving in a small cave under a house, whose owners had tried to kill them by smothering them with a ton of poisonous ‘insect killer’ powder. Let’s say that I was shown just as much love and devotion when she crawled down there to take them out. That experience in mind forever, I go back to Quebec with love in my heart for the bees in my future apiary.