317. Save the Honeybees! | EARTH DAY BONUS EPISODE | HEATHER WOOD RETURNS! | Evergreen Urban Bee Sanctuary

From the Evergreen Urban Bee Sanctuary Heather Wood is here to share with us about natural beekeeping and why it is so important for everyone to have a hive on their property big or small. Donate to the Evergreen Urban Bee Sanctuary and help Heather continue her work on her Shunpipe donation page here.

Welcome to the GREEN Organic Garden Podcast it's Saturday • April 18, 2020 and I have an awesome guest back here to talk to us because she is just like you and me and all the green future growers out there so I know you are going to love every single golden seed that is going to come out of her mouth!

So, I have so many new listeners since I was on the Melissa Norris show so they maybe haven't heard of you.

Bonus Care Bellamy's informative Permaculture garden tour of her food forest and pollinator beds:

https://youtu.be/C6SQUlsQq8w

Tell us a little about yourself.

Returned to college a little later in life

taking a biodynamics class just different aspects of

farm

including beekeeping

watched a series of films, I said this is what I wanted to do. So I started a non-profit. Everything was in sync with other events.

We got to host Corwin Bell of Backyard Hive

He has done all sorts of research on Honeybee Genetics

colorado

natural style beehive that bees might prefer

honeybee genetics

non-profit to build natural beehives

awareness to catch honeybee swarms

straw hives

started to build his design which is the top bar hive

still have the sun hive which is the woven business

just about 150 top bar behaves now

so that’s pretty phenomenal for me, I didn't know anything about woodworking and I have developed a proficiency

Got my certificate in bee keeping

Where did you learn all this? I guess from Corwin?

local association before I

We hosted him to come and speak that drew all these people to the area and through my class and I became aware of this movement natural bee keeping that is geared toward local organic farming as opposed to giant mono-cropping and opposed the artificial insemination of honeybees

I just graduated in 2014 and I'm in my 6th year so I'm

learned about genetics, I knew it was important but haven't done a

• ton of homework
• still scratching the surface

The male honeybee is derived from an unfertilized egg!

You can imagine all of those worker bees you see, there are 10s of 1000s of bees in any colony

most are female!

• foraging
• doing work
• queen of course laying...