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Jacqueline Freeman

Jacqueline Freeman

Biodynamic farmer, natural beekeeper, and author of "Song of Increase: Listening to the Wisdom of Honeybees for Kinder Beekeeping and a Better World."

Jul 26, 2026

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not
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the headhunters.
14:58
These were jobs through trade boards, job boards and...
15:06
And I was like, this is a rort.
15:09
What happened was, and I talk a lot about this on my platform, which is the impact it had on my value of myself.
15:23
And I started to think, well, hang on a minute, I'm not worthy.
15:27
In fact, a friend of mine, I know she was trying to be kind, but she said, well, you just have to accept that your big jobs are behind you now.

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And probably, metabolically speaking, we're probably way younger than what we were.
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Mm.
2:59
I rescued, uh, probably over 100 bees over the seven-week tou- course, and that was it.
3:06
Nothing special happened other than that.
3:09
Then in 2000 and 2003, I think, somewhere in the early 2000s, I had moved to a farm.
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My husband and I own a farm in Northwa- in Southwest Washington.
3:24
And a friend of mine came up and said, "You have a farm.
3:28
You should have bees." I said, "That's a great idea.

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Mm-hmm.

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