About Bees, Culture & Curiosity

Season 5 Episode 9: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – Beekeeping along Canada's Sunshine Coast     

Canada has a sunshine coast. That's where I met up with my friend Steve Clifford. Steve is …

Season 5 Episode 8: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – Chile for Avocado Pollination, Queen Production, and Adventure     

Today's guest is Francisco Rey, a Chilean beekeeper and avocado farme…

Season 5 Episode 7: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – Buckwheat: Our Favourite August Honey Plant     

Buckwheat is quirky. Both the pland and the honey. We look at both - plant and honey - i…

Season 5 Episode 6: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – Laura Sends us Deep into the Beekeeping Groove     

This wide-ranging beekeeping podcast takes us from Wales to New Zealand and then Albe…

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 Slove…

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 t…

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 wa…

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 …

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 …

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 cou…

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 rain…

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 smok…

Season 4 Episode 6: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – Spring Honey Bees  

Bidzina and Ron talk about the status of their hives, leading to a discussion about dandelion honey, which Ron’s colo…

Season 4 Episode 5: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – Alberta Native Bees in Trouble  

We chat about the troubles facing native bees with Alberta Native Bee Council (ANBC) Executive Director …

Season 4 Episode 4: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – Thousands and Thousands and Thousands of Queens  

Dedicated to the memory of Florida queen breeder David Miksa 

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Season 4 Episode 3: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – Bee Thievery 

Pay close attention and you may pick up a few clues to reduce honey bee hive thefts. Listen even more closely and you may p…

Season 4 Episode 2: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – A Rose among the Bees

With Rose, our conversation starts with a bee walking on Ron's neck, progresses to a stash of wax, some bee work, c…

Season 4 Episode 1: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – Philosophy of Bee Happiness 

With Daniel Miksha, we try to unravel the philosophy of happiness. We barely touch on our intended theme (Ca…

Season 4 Trailer: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – Season 4 Trailer 

A quick preview of Season 4! How will we treat for mites? Is spring honey any good in the north? (Ron doesn't think so.) …

Season 3 Episode 11: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – Arizona's Monica King 

Our best podcast so far. We chat with Monica King, who rescues Africanized Honey Bees and teaches beekeepers in T…