Teach Me Bees

This week, Dave Wescott and Scott Calentine talk with special guest, Amanda Joyce, a local Washington beekeeper. Amanda is a beekeeper and the proud owner of HoneyLux Honey. Her passion for beekeeping began as a hobby in 2018 and quickly turned into a fascination with every aspect of bees and honey. In 2020, she turned her hobby into a business and established HoneyLux. At present, Amanda manages approximately 10-20 bee colonies. She sells the raw, unpasteurized honey and wax her bees produce both online and in select local markets. Amanda is pursuing a degree in counseling psychology and aims to integrate beekeeping into her future counseling practice.

You can check out Amanda's work at https://honeyluxhoney.com/ or follow her on social media @honeyluxhoney Here's the beekeeping resource working with veteran's mentioned in the episode https://wafarmvetco.org/healing-through-hives

As always, thank you for listening. We hope you had fun with us and learned something insightful or new about bees. Honey bees are key to our world. Stay tuned for more episodes to come!

Teach Me Bees is a weekly podcast hosted by Dave Wescott and Scott Calentine where we share about Honey 4 Hope, beekeeping, and talk about life. Episodes are released on Thursday mornings at 10 am PST through major audio podcast platforms and video platforms such as YouTube, LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter. Visit our website below and follow Honey 4 Hope on all social media platforms and Dave Wescott on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter.

Visit https://honey4hope.org/ to learn more.

This week, Dave Wescott and Scott Calentine were able to talk with the wonderful Charlotte Wiggins. Charlotte Ekker Wiggins is an award-winning author, blogger, Certified Master Beekeeper and Master Gardener Emeritus. She has been keeping honey bees for 15 years and gardening ever since she can remember. Her one-acre Missouri limestone hillside garden, where her neighbors said nothing would grow, is now a working apiary, certified wildlife garden and Monarch Way Station. Charlotte is a wealth of knowledge about bees and many things, she is well worth listening to!

As always, thank you for listening. We hope you had fun with us and learned something new about bees or the bee world, which is our world! Stay tuned for more episodes to come!

Check out Charlotte's website: https://www.charlotteekkerwiggins.com/ or https://www.bluebirdgardens.com/ Link to Charlotte's books https://www.amazon.com/s?k=charlotte+wiggins&crid=12PDWQBPP9TPT&sprefix=charlotte+wiggins%2Caps%2C439&ref=nb_sb_noss_2

Teach Me Bees is a weekly podcast hosted by Dave Wescott and Scott Calentine where we share about Honey 4 Hope, beekeeping, and talk about life. Episodes are released on Thursday mornings at 10 am PST through major audio podcast platforms and video platforms such as Youtube, LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter. Visit our website below and follow Honey 4 Hope on all social media platforms and Dave Wescott on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter.

https://honey4hope.org/

This week, Dave Wescott and Scott Calentine had the joy of interviewing Peter Notle of Rainy Day Bees, a Seattle based beekeeping company. In this episode we tap into Peter's wealth of knowledge and experiece in beekeeping and starting a beekeeping company. Peter Nolte has been keeping bees in the Greater Seattle area since 2011, working in urban and rural areas as the owner and head beekeeper of Rainy Day Bees. This variety of locales and over 150 beehives gives him a unique perspective on beekeeping in the Puget Sound region, and he loves sharing his experience with both new and experienced beekeepers through classes and conversations.

Check out Peter's business here: https://rainydaybees.com/

Peter recommended several books: Beekeeping for Dummies - https://rb.gy/ssreyt Bee Culture magazine - https://www.beeculture.com/magazine/ and American Bee Journal - https://americanbeejournal.com/

As always, thank you for listening. We hope you had fun with us and learned something new about bees or the bee world, which is our world! Stay tuned for more episodes to come!

Teach Me Bees is a weekly podcast hosted by Dave Wescott and Scott Calentine where we share about Honey 4 Hope, beekeeping, and talk about life. Episodes are released on Thursday mornings at 10 am PST through major audio podcast platforms and video platforms such as Youtube, LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter. Visit our website below and follow Honey 4 Hope on all social media platforms and Dave Wescott on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter.

https://honey4hope.org/

This week, Dave Wescott and Scott Calentine talk about the forbidden topic.... reproduction! Honey bee reproduction is quite different to human reproduction. From egg to larvae to pupua and emerging as a worker bee... it's quite the interesting process! There's a lot of fun had and Dave shares a midnight horror story that happened to him.

As always, thank you for listening. We hope you had fun with us and learned something new about bees or the bee world, which is our world! Stay tuned for more episodes to come!

Check this out for more on honey bee reproduction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wU8pMswhnVs

Teach Me Bees is a weekly podcast hosted by Dave Wescott and Scott Calentine where we share about Honey 4 Hope, beekeeping, and talk about life. Episodes are released on Thursday mornings at 10 am PST through major audio podcast platforms and video platforms such as Youtube, LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter. Visit our website below and follow Honey 4 Hope on all social media platforms and Dave Wescott on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter.

https://honey4hope.org/

Scott welcomes Victor Croker, founder of HiveIQ, to the podcast this week to talk about revolutionary new technology in beehives.

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