Walter visits the Beehive

Walter loves to visit the Beehive.  Beehive homies like it when he is here too... lots of interesting conversation, books, food and birds.

   Sara and Walter (aka Dad) early morning birding in the neighbourhood. And with the crew...

Proof of simultaneous enslavement and liberation possible at the Beehive! Note book title.

And walks in the spring blossoms... who says we all wear rose-coloured glasses? OK maybe I do anyways.

Party Invite!

Do you want to live in community?

The Beehive Collective House is looking for a new housemate / collective member for July 1, Aug possible.

Who are we?  

The Beehive is an established collective house located just off Commercial Drive. We believe that mutual support in the domestic realm fosters stronger individuals and stronger communities.  Collective living is a powerful form of activism, allowing us to exercise our values of social and environmental justice right in the home.  Together, we hold safe space for individual and collective growth.

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We welcome interest from queer folk, elders, youth, people of varied colours and cultures. 

We value: 

• Shared meals (we have a big kitchen and eat dinners together)
• Environmental consciousness and practice
• Open communication and supporting each other
• Vegetarian/vegan/freegan/local food & cooking from scratch
• Kids
• Animals
• Community-building and skill sharing
• Laughter, games, music, stories, creativity
• Growing food (we have a garden), and foraging.

Baloons at the Beehive

There was this kid... and he had a birthday party at our house. There was a magician.
Now we have balloons in the living room & snow on the trees. Lucky Beehive!

FREE Popcorn!!!

Isn't this the kind of house guest we all want?! One who comes home with a GIANT bag of FREE popcorn after her trip to the movies.


Day one.
We worked hard at it. Ate lots of popcorn. All is well at the Beehive.


Day two.
Still going strong. Popcorn is delicious.


Day three.
mmmmmmm... popcorn!


Day four.
Sealed in a bag, this popcorn is fresh and tasty.


Day five.
Yup, we've still got some. Do you want to take a bag home?


Day six.
Popcorn. SO GOOD!


Anyways, not sure how many days we ate popcorn for but this was a "hostess gift" that just kept on giving.
Thanks Andrea!

The great Abundance of Collective Living

Things accumulate at the Beehive!


These thirteen umbrellas are one example of the surprising abundance of collective living! Who's unlucky?

There were times before I lived here when I did not have an umbrella when I needed one. I don't have that problem anymore! We've put a few surplus umbrellas in the Free Box (outside on sunny days).

Bees don't really need umbrellas right now because it is SO COLD in our city! Come over for dinner, or to drink tea and be warm!

Dumpster Run with the Bike Trailer!

Impressive! We estimate that we brought home 200 pounds of food today from the IGA dumpster. Haiden had a box on the rack of his bike, and I had two panniers plus a FULL TRAILER! The bicycle trip home took a looong time.

Feels like it was worth it... likely we will be feeding 60 people tomorrow. For sure we will let them know where the food came from so they can make their own choices, but as you know if you read this blog, the food is 100% good, much of it organic.

This is what we brought home. Click to enlarge for a close up of all the goodness! Sorry I couldn't fit all the bananas in the picture.



Oh, and here is a link to information about the Workshops we are hosting tomorrow!
The Vancouver Collective House Network presents
A Day of Workshops about Collective Houses

Mom loves salvaged flowers

This July, Michael's mom, Donna, came to visit the beehive for the second time. After her first visit to the beehive two years ago, she was inspired to begin recycling and doing yoga.

Here's Donna with Sara, helping set up this blog:



During this visit, we introduced Mom to salvaging food. She followed Sara and I through a tour of the dumpsters on Granville Island, where we all found some lovely flowers to wear in our hair.



Mom and Sara went to laughter yoga together, a first for both of them. They laughed for an entire hour. It had a lasting effect on Sara:



Here's Mom looking at the 2010 Olympics development:



Mom had a great time visiting us, and we look forward to her next visit!