I live with my mother and father at Alma del Monte, on a mountain above La Canalosa, a small village in southern Spain. This is where I share what I'm learning — with drawings — about the bees and their quiet, golden world.
a small note from his family
Each chapter holds wide drawings, simple words, and everything Mathias is learning about the bees — quietly, step by step.
Who lives inside a beehive, what each bee does all day, and why the cells are built in the shape of a hexagon.
Read chapter one →
The queen, the workers, and everything they do each day, working together like a tiny village.
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Bees are sensitive to the weather. Here I share when it is safe to open the hive — and how to work with calm and respect.
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How nectar travels from a single wildflower to a jar of honey on the table — a slow, sweet journey, made by thousands of small wings.
Read chapter three →We work with the bees,Mathias, age 8
not against them.
They know things we do not.
I never go to the hives alone. Raoul is the beekeeper who teaches us almost everything. Papa comes with me most days. Mama takes the photographs. We learn together, slowly.
Six hives stand in the sierra: four of a very old design, and two of something more modern. Each one works in its own way.
These are the classics — what beekeepers have used in Spain for as long as anyone can remember. Wooden, sturdy, simple. To take the honey, you open the hive gently, lift the frames out one by one, and spin them in a centrifuge. Slow work, done the way it has always been done.
These come from Australia — a clever invention. Their trick is genius: you turn a small tap and the honey flows out through a tube, already clean, with no need to lift the frames or use any machinery. The bees barely notice.
I share how the bees are doing, what we've discovered this season, and the next chapters from the journal. No advertising. No rush.
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