in a world brimming with complexity few creatures
embody harmony like the honeybee with tireless
precision she dances from bloom to bloom each
motion guided by millennia upon millennia of
instinct each act in service to the whole and
then There are the beekeepers, watchful stewards
of this ancient symbiosis. Part agriscientist,
part poet, they move along their hives with the
efficiency of mow, levy and curly, tending to
the bees' needs as best they can comprehend,
and with the infrequency of a waterfall in the
Sahara, sometimes running off flapping and flailing
like a penguin on a hot sidewalk. This is their
journey. Welcome, welcome to Be Love Beekeeping
presented by Man Lake. Today we're going to have
a change of pace with a fun conversation with
a new beekeeper just finishing up her first year
with her own bees. And just in time for Valentine's,
yes it's a love story. First some news about
Neonicotinoid Pesticides also known as Neonics.
These have been around for a number of years
and are known to be toxic to honey bees as well
as the pests that they're designed to kill but
until this newest research just came out we didn't
fully understand why they're so toxic. Now I'm
going to translate the findings from scientific
jargon into plain old English but if you want
to nerd out and read the research yourself there
will be a link down in the show notes. In a nutshell,
the neonics tested led to an elevation in the
body temperature of honeybees. That is a problem.
Furthermore, the researchers observed a considerable
upregulation of a flight gene. This gene accelerates
the homing behavior of honeybees and facilitates
the rapid and frequent transport of neonic contaminated
nectar to the hive. Consequently, this accelerated
the enrichment of neonicotinoid pesticides and
increased the toxicity risk to honeybee populations.
In addition, the interference of neonics induces
a series of temperature and behavioral changes
that are aided by the bee's strict social behaviors,
such as swarming, nectar collection, food hand
-feeding transfer and food storage and feeding
behaviors. To make matters even worse, the honeybees
preferred to collect pollen from fields sprayed
with neonics, which significantly accelerated
the transfer, diffusion, and enrichment of the
pesticides in larvae, queens, and males of honeybee
populations, which then affected honeybee reproduction
over time. Bottom line, we knew neonics were
a problem, now we know they're even worse than
we thought. Alright, enough of the scary news,
now let's switch gears to go inside the hive
presented by Primal Bee. Did you know that a
queen bee and a worker bee start as the exact
same egg? Same DNA, same potential. The only
thing that decides which one she becomes? Food.
Every larva gets fed royal jelly for the first
three days. After that, workers switch to a diet
of pollen and nectar. But if the colony decides
it needs a new queen, they keep feeding select
larvae, royal jelly, and nothing else. Three
days, that's the entire window. After that, the
switch is permanent. Queen or worker, decided
by lunch. Here's where it gets wild though. A
colony might raise five sometimes even ten queen
cells at a time. When the first queen hatches
she makes a high -pitched piping sound. I've
heard it's really cool by the way. Then she listens.
The unborn queens pipe back from inside their
cells and then the first queen goes and finds
them and stings every one of them. Brutal right?
But it works. fastest, strongest queen wins.
During her busy lifetime, she'll go on to lay
up to 2 ,000 eggs a day and live for years. The
workers who raised her? About six weeks. Next
time on Inside the Hive, we'll cover what actually
happens during a swarm. Spoiler alert, it's not
as scary as it looks. Now give a warm welcome
to our very special guest. I'd like to welcome
to the show today, one of my favorite people
in the entire world, in the entire universe.
This is Juniper Bennett, my niece in Montana.
Hi, Juniper. Hi, Eric. Thank you. You're welcome.
And I know you're feeling under the weather today.
Thank you for joining me anyway. And best well
wishes to you and your whole family. Get better
soon. Thank you so much. Experiencing influenza
B, it is no joke this year. Well, we're not meeting
in person and maybe that's one of the reasons
why we don't want to joke about it. But I do
want to talk to you all about your very first
year of beekeeping. It is such an exciting thing.
And it's such a refreshing change on this show
because we have commercial beekeepers and all
these experts and stuff. And we can also learn
from people that are brand new at it and be reminded
of some of the reasons that we got into it in
the first place. And that's where I want to start
with you, Juniper, is what got you interested
in honeybees? Well, we live out in the middle
of nowhere and before we pushed record we were
talking about chemicals and how do we how do
we save our bees from all the chemicals and we
are lucky enough to live somewhere where we're
surrounded by wilderness and you know our closest
neighbor is over a mile away and he doesn't spray
his his fields and so I've always felt it in
my heart like we've opened our land up to making
a beautiful home for animals without expectations
of them and just to give them a safe and loving
home. I wanted to do the same for bees because
I think it's one of the few places left on earth
where we're not surrounded by a mass amount of
chemicals. It helps also that my son, my eight
year old son, he loves bees. So as you know,
Eric, my family has spent much of the last decade
living and traveling in an airstream and everywhere
we would go, he would find bees in a puddle or
be limping or having a hard time. And he's always
trying to rehabilitate these bees. I don't know
how many friend bees we've had in our airstream.
And most of the time, you know, he just gives
them, holds them lovingly in his hand while they
die. And then they join us. So his love for bees
also made me very interested. And so last winter
I decided, well, I know nothing about beekeeping,
but we're just going to go for it. And I want
to give people a little bit better picture of
where you're at, because you're in Montana, a
little ways north of the north end of Yellowstone.
And I'll let you fill in some of those blanks.
You're on, I think, 10 acres. Beautiful little
stream running through it. It is so picturesque.
And what kind of animals do you also have now?
So we have a horse and two donkeys. One of our
donkeys, he just turned 27. We had no idea that
donkeys live. so old, but apparently they can
live into their 50s. So he's this middle aged
sweetest thing. And gosh, what else? Well, can
I tell you about our chickens? I know you have
chickens. You'll love this story. So I had put
an ad when we decided to stop traveling and move
home. I put an ad on Craigslist and said, we're
just opening our land up to animals who, who
need a loving home. And I didn't get any response.
And then many, many months went by. And I get
a text from a woman and she's like, I have nine
layer hens. Do you want them? And I was like,
sure. And she's like, I'll deliver them tomorrow.
Otherwise we have to butcher them. And I was
like, yep, bring them. And so I'm Googling, like,
what is a nine layer hen? And she shows up and
they're nine lang hens. But I love that story
because it really just kind of. Shares the culture
and the energy of our home and our land is We
really don't know what we're doing But we're
just we're ready to learn and open our hearts
up and like we don't eat eggs were plant -based
and like these nine chickens are the biggest
healthiest happiest chickens and It's just been
so fun having them and our daughter got two ducks
and they are so fun with the chickens and then
Eric I'm gonna have to send you a picture we
have at first we thought they were grouse and
then partridges and we just learned in a bird
book that they're called Chuckers so a couple
of months ago a Chucker just moved in and it
started tucking itself into the hen house at
night and It will just spend hours on our deck
peeking in our window and like wanting to be
really close. It's eating out of our hands and
then suddenly two more showed up. So we now have
three Chuckers that have joined our, our hens.
You're attracting all this. You're going to start
attracting swarms of bees too. You know, we live
in the middle of nowhere. So pigeons are not
like a typical bird you see out here, but we
now have two pigeons that also moved into our
lean to. And so it's just this big love, love
house out there and Don't let me forget. My son
has his bearded jargon still. And we have a dog
and we have a cat. But it's also, it's big and
it's lovely and it's so alive. But it's also
big and our sky is really big and it doesn't
feel like an animal, like a zoo. You know what
I mean? Like it's just lovely. Yeah and just
also to help people get to know you, when you
guys were traveling in the Airstream, you two
with your four children and how many animals?
Let's see we made our son's bearded dragon is
truly his best friend in the whole world and
so we made an enclosure at the end of his bed.
So she traveled with us and we pulled the microwave
out and my daughter had a bunny at the time and
He was the love of her life. And so we turned
the microwave spot into a cute bunny hatch. And
then we had our dog. You forget the snake. The
snake is right. Aki, he had his snake, but she
passed away. He had the snake when we had stopped
traveling to have our fourth baby. And she was
like a rescued garter snake that he found outside.
that wasn't doing well, and he prolonged her
life and gave her so much love, but she ended
up passing before we moved back into the Airstream,
which I think was probably best for her well
-being. And by the way, a lot of people that
live an RV life have a cute little dog, a little
lap puppy. Not yours? No, we have a Czech Shepherd.
He's huge. I think he's 90 pounds and he's his
whole own story. He's so lovely. He had a very
rough life before coming. He's awesome. And he
can carry a basketball in his mouth. We've seen
it. All right. We're supposed to be talking about
bees and beekeeping. So I've got my job is to
get us back on track here. You also met bees
when you were at our house a few years ago, and
you got to put a bee suit on I think for the
first time I'm sorry your son didn't I do have
children sizes here now, but I didn't back at
the time I remember they all kind of gathered
around though like everybody was amazed and loved
it if I remember right we took a frame out of
a hive and Let them each stick a finger in and
taste the fresh honey Mm -hmm. What was that
like for them? Well, I mean that's rude that
was even my first exposure to bees and I remember
thinking that is probably pretty dangerous to
have bees but you were just like This is Zen
be guy and it wasn't scary at all. And I think
that that's probably My kids experience too is
that oh, wow. This is like a really calm Calm
happening here Yeah, that fear we number one
we don't need to have and number two if we're
working with bees We don't want to have they
literally can smell it All right. Let's get back
to your journey So this last winter so about
a year ago right now you made the commitment
How did you decide like where to buy bees and
what kind of beehive you wanted to use? So I
had been watching different people in the bee
world, you know, just some friends who share
about their bee experience on their Instagram.
And I have a friend who lives a couple miles
up the road and they caught a wild swarm. You
might know her husband actually, Casey Anderson.
He's like a big wildlife guy on YouTube. They're
very inspirational because they are wild. I fell
in love with the Flow Hives. I, it just really
spoke to me and it really aligned with, it aligns
with my vision of, you know, I have this philosophy
that is very different than most people's, which
is I don't believe that animals are on earth
for our use. I believe that it's our obligation
to really take care of animals and let their
souls feel peace in this life. And I love that
the Flow Hive offers that to the bees, that I
don't have to disrupt anything that they've created
to harvest the honey. Because ultimately, my
objective in having bees isn't really even for
the honey. It's to give the bees a magical home.
So I fell in love with the Flow Hive. And I think
in my mind, when I picture land and a home with
so many animals, my mind thinks like, very, very
messy and so something about me is I did grow
up in a very messy home and it's very much, well
I guess I'll say I made a promise to myself when
I was very little that I would give my family
a different experience growing up and we would
live in a very clean, beautiful space. Luckily
Ty shares that. that vision in life. And we are
both very committed to a very clean, beautiful
space. And the Flow Hive is so stunningly beautiful.
And, you know, we stained it and painted it too.
It looks just like a miniature version. We have
two of them. They're, gosh, 20 feet off of our
deck. Like, we purposely put them, like, right
outside our back door so we can watch the bees
all day. And... So if I can paint the picture
a little bit for you, there's a little pond right
outside the beehives and then our corral with
the donkeys and the horse are right next to that
and the hen houses in the corral and so everybody's
like literally right outside our front door.
But it's all so beautiful and it's so clean and
it all just kind of works. You know the bees
and the chickens are at the pond drinking water
together and So anyways, that was a long way
to answer that we went with the Flow Hive. So
shout out to Cedar at Flow. Yes. Good guy. He's
been on the show. He was a lot of fun and I think
they're great for a lot of people and they're
not for everybody and that's okay. But do your
research. What advice would you give to brand
new beekeepers on how to make decisions like
that and like where to buy your bees and what
kind to get? So I knew intuitively that that
is what I wanted. And so I didn't ask anybody
their opinion because I didn't want anybody to
change what I intuitively felt was made for me.
And so I purposefully didn't, like there were
many times where I was like in my mind thinking,
I wonder what Eric thinks about this, but I'm
not gonna ask him because I don't want to influence
how I feel about this. And so. that would be
my encouragement, is find what lights you up.
Find what, find, like, if you see something that
really resonates with you, trust that. And then
be really proud of going that path. And, you
know, I never even researched other behaves.
I just knew that that one was exactly what I
wanted. Aesthetically, the way that it works,
the way that, you know, I really get to leave.
the bees so much. I love everything about that
and I just have to say like I have no experience
with any other hive but this company is unbelievably
amazing and the quality is amazing and I'm not
affiliated with them by any means but I just
remember like opening the box to build the hive
and just being completely blown away from how
beautiful the tissue paper was to like this these
beekeeping newspapers that are separating the
you know the different layers of wood and the
smell I got the cedar hives and the smell is
so phenomenal And so it's just very much in alignment
with the life that I desire living. Every part
of becoming a beekeeper was a really beautiful
experience, and that was a big part of that.
How about the kind of bees? How did you decide?
Because there are different varieties of honeybees.
OK, Eric, so this is where my newness really
gets to shine. I have no idea what kind of bees
I have. OK, thank you for being honest. Yes,
I have no idea what I have. All I know is in
so we are we're equal distance from Bozeman and
Livingston, Montana. So there's a cute little
bee shop here in Bozeman. And I had seen a sign
outside. tend to order your honeybees and so
I called them to ask all the questions and and
she's the one and I was like so just one hive
is good right and she's like oh no no no I highly
recommend two so that you can really learn from
both hives so like okay well I'll order two gosh
do you call them swarms when you're ordering
them I can't even remember right now well packages
or new depending how you got them and buying
and starting with two is really good advice by
the way I agree when I was building my flow hives
there were times because I forgot to mention
this we homeschool so you know becoming beekeepers
I just kind of incorporated into our school and
with the flow hive they also have a course that
I just kind of worked through with my kids so
that we can all kind of learn it together and
some of my kids are more Intuit and others kind
of like watching from a distance and both is
so beautiful but that course has been really
helpful to me and So when I called the the B
store here, I ordered two packages and She's
like, okay, we'll send an email a week before
they're ready to pick up you have to be there
like there's no like you can't send a neighbor
you can't like we can't hold them for you you
just have to be there to pick up the package
and i was like okay are you planning on expanding
your apiary this year or are you a beginner thinking
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these hives ready and as I'm building these two
hives, it's kind of a lot building two hives.
We have a lot happening in our life and I was
like, oh gosh. Two's a lot, but now I am so grateful
I have two because my two, they have very different
personalities and it's so neat. Like I'm learning
double time, right? Because I'm learning such
different things from each hive. So I love that
she recommended that I get two. As far as the
kind of bees to get, there are places online,
including at Man Lake's website, where you can
find a guide. and it will tell you, okay, buckfast
bees, here's sort of the pros and cons of them.
Italians, pros and cons of them. Carniolans,
Russians, etc. And so you can look and say, okay,
I'm in a place that's super warm weather, so
maybe this kind of bee is different, or the opposite
is true. And your local bee shop in Montana probably
realizes hey these are the best bees for Montana
and so this is just what we sell. Yes and it
turns out it's this really incredible they actually
raise and breed the bees here and so like I imagined
that it was just like a third party right they're
just buying them from somewhere else. It often
is so that's great that you got local. Yeah.
So as you go down this journey, this beekeeping
journey, you're going to find it's not always
easy and sometimes there are heartbreaks. Most
of us have had bees die and that can happen from
disease or varroa or a number of different issues.
Also where you are, you guys have bears. Did
you do anything to protect your hives from bears?
No. You might want to think about that. Consider
it. That's interesting. They will destroy hives
like overnight. You can find them completely
destroyed out on the ground done. They can wreak
terrible havoc with bees. And I remember seeing
a picture of a bear at your house from a few
years ago. So that's something to think about.
Well, thank you. I appreciate that because I
hadn't that had not crossed my mind. That's probably
the worst predator problem that you might have
to think about in your area. There's skunks and
other things. The worst one I have, and you may
get some of this too, is yellow jackets. Near
the end of summer, they can be a big problem.
So we can talk about all that stuff offline here
sometime. I can tell you just love these bees.
What is it about them? So maybe I'll share a
story of when we first picked up the bees because
it... I didn't know that I was going to love
the bees. So Ty and one of our boys, they were
out of town at a skateboarding competition. So
it's me and our three other kids, and I get the
email that it's time to pick up the bees. And
my eight -year -old thought it was so funny that
we picked them up in the Applebee's parking lot.
I like it. He's really quick with stuff like
that. He was dying laughing. So just a trailer
behind the Applebee's and I didn't know what
to expect at all. And I tried to learn like,
what am I going to do when I bring these bees
home? Like, I don't know what we're doing. We
have our equipment, but that's it. We pull up
and there's maybe four other cars there. And
there's this man with this big trailer. and it's
full of these boxes of bees. And I'm just standing
there watching these other people collect their
bees. And I'm sitting with my three kids and
he's like, how many did you order? I was like,
we got two. And he's like, all right, let's get
them loaded up. And I was like, okay, I'm not
really sure what you're giving. Like, can you
tell me what this is? You know, and he's like
pulling this like candy plug from his pocket.
And I'm like. I don't even know what to do with
that. And it turns out he owns the bee shop in
town with his wife. And he just was so nice.
He took like a half an hour to just kind of show
us how you like tap them to the bottom. And as
he's teaching me, he puts the box of beans in
the back of the truck and Look over and my eight
-year -old he's just climbed up into the back
of the truck and he's sitting with his hip touching
this box of bees and of course, there's bees
that have gotten out and He just has his hand
up to the box and he's so calm and so happy and
When you're around that and like as a mom and
just knowing that really any animal feels our
energy like I I'm not gonna be the one to panic
here and then still fear in him and like my youngest
is sitting there watching him but of course there's
like this oh okay all right this is this is okay
and he starts singing to these bees and they
start like they stop swarming the box and they're
just on his bear arm and he's singing to these
bees and then my youngest climbs up in the back
of the truck and to him this is what you do with
bees this is all he's ever seen is his big brother
singing to bees so then now I have these two
little boys singing to bees and my eight -year
-old he's laid back and he's just so comfortable
and he's singing to these bees and he's so happy
to be with these bees No fear in him whatsoever.
They have yet to be stung. Nobody has been stung
by these bees yet. They are the calmest hives.
And we're pulling away. And he says, Mom, our
family just grew by 40 ,000 bees. And I was like,
oh my gosh, you're right. Our family just grew
so much. And it's just like this calm, beautiful
presence. you know so setting up our our boxes
i mean he's really guiding you know he's like
mom remember to do this part he's just like so
into these bees and so i wouldn't i don't even
know if it's my i don't even know if beekeeping
is my thing or if i'm just like holding the space
for him to run with this i know i'm not really
sure but It's just so beautiful. And so I, I
don't have like any knowledge yet, really. It's
just the experience of being their presence and
having the gift to be able to offer them a really
loving home. So beautiful. Wow. And a good tip
for people that are going and picking up their
first package or nuke of bees is sometimes they'll
pull up to the place to get them and then realize
Oh, wait, where do I put them? In the back seat
of the car? And that can make some people very,
very nervous. Well, we were in awe. There's this
cute older couple and they're just putting them
in the back seat of their Subaru and like, yeah.
Yeah. And that's what you do. That's what most
people do is just stick them on the floor in
the back seat. It's fine. And a couple may get
out, not very many, but yeah, it's all good.
But to your point of losing bees, I shared this
with you when we were talking a couple weeks
ago. I'll be very honest, this winter in Montana
is quite a breath of fresh air. I mean, I know
that it's not wonderful for the earth, but it's
so sustainable and manageable. Like we haven't
had the negative temperatures, but it's been
astronomically warm and I feel so scared for
my bees. They're so busy. Have you been feeding
them? Yes. After we talked, I did some research
and I did put some food out there for them and
they're going to be okay. But they're flying
like it's summer. It's wild. That's crazy how
warm it is. Yeah. And it sounds like your bees
are pretty adapted to the kind of weather that
you have there, but still you're not going to
see bees flying at 30 degrees. They're not capable
of it. I've seen them try. and they'll get about
three feet and then just nosedive into the snow,
and that can be kind of sad too. So, okay, so
you're learning about food. How about the big
V word, Varroa? What's your knowledge of Varroa,
and did you do any testing in the fall? No, my
knowledge is low, and I'm sure that experienced
beekeepers listening are going to say, well,
being naive is dangerous, but But that's where
I am. And I kind of also took this approach with
the bees. I mean, it's kind of my philosophy.
I mean, it was with birthing my children and
being a mother and having our animals is I want
to give space for life to happen as it's supposed
to happen, while also, you know, of course, doing
what we can to love and protect. But I kind of
took the approach. This year of, you know, I
did a couple of hive checks, but I was very hands
off and very much I want to let the bees do the
bees thing. What has surprised you the most?
Definitely that we run around barefoot and play
outside all day every day and no one has been
stung. We have bees that just seem like curious
of what we're doing. They'll come and watch in
the same exact doors as these new birds that
have joined our hands. They'll just sit outside
that door and just like watch in and that is
just amazing to me. You know when you sit and
you watch you see like they are so focused on
doing their jobs and then to see just some of
them come and sit at the door and just watch
the happenings of life. It feels magic. All right.
Last thing, Juniper. Yeah. What advice from your
first year beekeeping, what advice do you have?
I'm going to ask for two pieces of advice. One
for people that are brand new and don't have
their bees yet. And the other for seasoned beekeepers
that may be helping mentor or guide some beginners.
I would say for new beekeepers, it's very similar
to gardening. We built this new beautiful garden
this summer, and I had these expectations that
it would, by the end of summer, be this big,
lush, beautiful, weed -free garden. And it was
this huge wake -up of, okay, this is actually
a very timely endeavor here. It's not going to
happen overnight. I think beekeeping is the same
and that it's not about harvesting the honey
or whatever your goal and having the bees. It's
not about that goal. It's about the process of
becoming with your garden or becoming with your
bees and what you're learning throughout that
journey. For seasoned beekeepers helping new
people like myself, probably You know, Eric,
if you lived here, I would have probably asked
you to come and pick up the bees with me and
help me move the bees into their hive and come
and do the first several checks with me. And
that would have been amazing. But I don't think
that I would have been able to get to really
know. myself and my my one son who's really into
it and my bees the way that I have because I
just kind of figured it out on my own and So
while I would have absolutely loved to have had
you here I think if if someone is helping others
with bees probably encouraging them to take space
and to you know experience some trial and error
and Because it's in that space that we kind of
learn our own ways and I did it like you did
I did it without a mentor and That's right for
some people and some other people really want
somebody holding their hand and Most people are
some probably somewhere in between those two
places. So I'd say for mentors don't assume that
they want you to help them with every single
thing but let them have their space and learn
at their own speed and get as much help as they
want but not more than they want or maybe not
more than is good for them. Well and I will say
like I didn't really know anybody that I could
call or that could be a mentor to me. And had
that been an option, I probably would have been
the one that's like, okay, please help me with
all the things. And like even myself, I would
think like, I want my hand to be held throughout
this whole process because it's so new and intimidating.
But just like with everything in life, gosh,
the fastest way to learn, it's just like diving
head first in. And so how beautiful for somebody
to be able to have a mentor. But I love what
you said. Not just assuming that that means that
they want you to do everything for them or with
them, but really encouraging them to To learn
it. Yeah, let them grow at their own pace and
Be in tune with the bees and you said something
really early on about being intuitive And I'm
a huge believer in that with our beekeeping that
whether it's what kind of hive design you buy
or where you buy your bees or whether you treat
them or don't treat them for Varroa or things
like that. It's really important that we are
intuitive. I've probably mentioned this on this
show before but I have been known to actually
sometimes not know what to do for my bees and
to ask them. And if somebody was there watching
they'd probably think I'm a little crazy. You
know, there's Eric talking to his bees, but asking
them, I think you need something. I don't know
what it is. You're going to have to give me some
help here. That's so beautiful. So be intuitive.
Anyway, keep it up, Juniper. We're going to talk
Varroa offline and go from there. And good luck
with year number two. You're going to learn a
whole bunch more. And before you know it, knowing
you guys and your family, you're going to have
a lot of beehives around there. So just plan
on that. I'll let Ty know. Okay, yeah, you let
Ty know. Alright, thanks, Juniper. Thanks again
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