On a fine summer day a man I will call Karel (real name withheld for reasons that will become clear later) took a walk in a South Bohemian forest where the evergreen trees were dripping with honeydew that ants, flies and wasps were feasting upon. At the same time, only a few hundred meters away he noticed his purebred Carniolan honey bees languishing around their hive, looking out at him from its entrance and not making a move toward the rich source of nourishment dripping from the trees. Fourteen days later they were starving and had to be rescued with tanks of sugar water, and he said to himself: “Damn, what kind of bees are these if they can’t make use of what nature offers?” (Vondrák; my own interview with Karel). As he later discovered, the problem lay in a mismatch between the type of bees that is predominantly bred in the Czech Republic and the environment they were living in. Like many others, he knew that fugitive colonies of indigenous dark bees were sometimes found far from civilization, but it was the recognition that imported breeds failed to make use of what the native bees instinctively recognized and sought as food sources was a first step toward applying the principles of bioregionalism to beekeeping. This experience made an activist out of him. ReWilding Bees Steps Toward Bioregional Beekeeping by Melinda Reidinger The history of modern civilization is one of domination of the natural world, rather than learning how to live in balance within it. Some obvious results include global warming, deforestation, air pollution, water wars, and the rapid destruction of the very creatures most crucial to the medicinal and food plants we depend upon. Melinda does a fabulous job of bringing to light for us herbalists the necessity for a rewilded relationship with our endangered insect allies.