About Bees, Culture & Curiosity

Season 5 Episode 5: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – World's Most Interesting Bee Museum - and more...       I am just back from a quick trip to central Europe, where I visited bees in Sloven...

14 Aug 202541min

Season 5 Episode 4: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – Bees, Greenhouses, and 18-hour Work Days      It takes 18-hour workdays to keep a greenhouse that produces 3 million plants a year, and to...

26 Jul 20251h 41min

Season 5 Episode 3: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – Ask Me Anything for July 2025       Ask me anything.  I start off with a powerful phrase you can always use when a pesky new beekeeper wan...

21 Jul 202541min

Season 5 Episode 2: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – July's Best Honey Plant      What's July's best honey plant? In much of the northern hemisphere, if the soil is sweet alkali, the answer i...

13 Jul 202551min

Season 5 Episode 1: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – Beekeeping on Canada Day      It's Canada Day, up Canada way, on the first day of July. We talk bees, sunshine, swarms that refuse to be r...

3 Jul 202549min

Season 4 Episode 9: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – Slovenia, the Country that Buzzes     In preparation for a trip to central Europe, I have been learning about beekeeping in the small coun...

29 Jun 202527min

Season 4 Episode 8: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – Late Spring Beekeeping    Rain brings flowers, flowers bring nectar, nectar brings bees, beekeepers make honey. We are getting heavy rains...

25 Jun 202559min

Season 4 Episode 7: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – Judging your Honey   Today we judge your honey. Not by flavour, but by the tiniest nuances of bottle fill and floating specks of bee smoke...

15 Jun 202552min