Salon No 46. with Constanza Prieto Figelist and Dr. Rosa Vásquez Espinoza
Arboreal Apiculture Salon
It was an honor to welcome Constanza Prieto Figelist, Latin American Legal Director at the Earth Law Center, and Dr. Rosa Vásquez Espinoza, a leading voice in the global movement to protect wild pollinators and the Amazon, as our guests for Salon #46. They share their advocacy for the recognition of the rights of stingless bees in the Amazon and the broader legal frameworks emerging to protect them.
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Salon No. 45 with Laura Pustarfi, Ph.D.
Arboreal Apiculture Salon
We are honored to welcome Laura Pustarfi, Ph.D. to the Salon. Laura is Director of the Psychedelic-Assisted Therapies and Research Certificate Program and a lecturer in Philosophy and Religion at the California Institute of Integral Studies. Her work bridges plant studies, integral ecology, environmental philosophy, and psychedelic scholarship. She is co-editor of The Wisdom of Trees: Thinking Through Arboreality and serves on the board of The Plant Initiative, with ongoing contributions to the Plant Perspectives journal. Laura brings a rare blend of rigorous scholarship, ecological insight,...
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Salon No. 44 with Dr. Robert Mutisi
Arboreal Apiculture Salon
It was an honor to have Dr. Robert Mutisi from Zimbabwe as our guests at the Salon. Robert is a professional forester who specialises in commercial and social forestry plantation development. A passionate beekeeper and trainer who contributes to improved African beekeeping systems that addresses sustainable issues related to poverty, hunger, and the environment. Robert has pioneered a Nature-based Beekeeping approach in Zimbabwe where communities in marginal areas have realised their potential. The use of low-cost hives made from local material, bee ecology and native species, inclusivity,...
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Salon No. 43 With Bas Blaasse
Arboreal Apiculture Salon
It was an honor to have Bas Blaasse as our guest at the Salon. He is a writer, researcher, and filmmaker based in Brussels. His work explores the intersections of art, visual culture, philosophy, and ecology-often tracing connections between aesthetic practices and the conceptual or material realities they engage with. Together with artist Aladin Borioli, he published the book “Bannkörbe”, an anthology of ceremonial use of masks in historical beekeeping. His current research focuses on collective practices in the arts and the historical development of the notion of landscape. He is also...
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Salon No. 42 with Dr Keith Delaplane
Arboreal Apiculture Salon
It's an honor to have Dr. Keith S. Delaplane as our guest. Keith is Professor Emeritus of Entomology at the University of Georgia where he served as Director of the honey bee program there between 1990-2024. Research by Keith, his students, and coworkers resulted in hundreds of publications including over 70 refereed research papers, 7 books, and 5 book chapters ranging across basic honey bee (and termite) biology, health management, pollination, and social evolution, garnering over 6300 citations by peers around the world. His latest book, Honey Bee Social Evolution was published in October...
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Salon No. 41 with Jovana Bila Dubaić - Citizen Science and the Belgrade bee
Arboreal Apiculture Salon
Jovana Bila Dubaić is a Doctor of Environmental Sciences at the Faculty of Biology, University of Belgrade. Her scientific field covers biodiversity protection and invasive species ecology. Her PhD thesis topic covered “Diversity of the Wild Bees in Belgrade: faunistic overview, patterns of distribution and status assessment of the chosen group population”. More about the research she does at the Faculty read here and her instagram page can be found at: belgrade.bees.ecology In this Podcast we talk with Jovana discussing her work with free-living bees and in particualr...
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Salon No.40 With Maggie Shanahan, PhD & Héctor Morales Urbina MSc
Arboreal Apiculture Salon
We were honoured to welcome Héctor Morales Urbina and Maggie Shanahan as our guests to Salon #40. They both are beekeepers and bee researchers from Chiapas, Mexico and the United States, respectively. Maggie shares some broad context around beekeeping in Chiapas and compare and contrast beekeeping systems in the U.S. and Mexico. Héctor talks about how beekeepers in Chiapas and their use traditional ecological knowledge to better care for their bees and discusses the ways that the Chiapa culture shapes beekeepers’ relationships with their bees. Together, Maggie and Héctor discuss...
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Salon No. 39 With Kaylin Kleckner - Bee-lining in the Bush
Arboreal Apiculture Salon
Kaylin Kleckner is a PhD Candidate at the University of Florida Honey Bee Research and Extension Laboratory. Through collaboration with Rhodes University, Kaylin conducts field research with wild and unmanaged honey bees in the Eastern Cape, South Africa. She used beelining techniques to locate 130 nest sites to study nesting ecology, population structure, and disease dynamics. Long term, she aims to inform local land management decisions and pollinator conservation initiatives in Africa.
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Salon No. 36.5 (Brasil Português) Com Felipe Mendes - Colmeias de toras no Brasil e São Tomé e Príncipe
Arboreal Apiculture Salon
Neste podcast, conversamos com Felipe Mendes, do Brasil. Felipe é um apicultor e consultor arbóreo e biodinâmico, pioneiro em abordagens inovadoras de manejo animal por meio do uso de TreeNests (colmeias em toras). Ele trabalha com híbridos de Apis mellifera scutellata (abelhas africanizadas) e colaborou com o Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (MST) no Brasil, um movimento social que ocupa terras agrícolas não utilizadas para promover a agricultura sustentável e a autossuficiência econômica.
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Salon No. 38 With Susan Murphy - How Zen Koans can help us approach Apiculture
Arboreal Apiculture Salon
In this Salon we are joined by Dr Susan Murphy Roshi from Australia. Susan is a distinguished Zen teacher with a profound interest in the intersection of Zen practice and indigenous Australian concepts of 'care for country'. For 25 years, she co-led walks in Country with the late, highly respected indigenous Elder, Dulumunmun, Uncle Max Harrison, exploring the deep connections between these traditions. Susan's work emphasizes the transformative power of Zen koans in addressing life's challenges, particularly our duty of care for the Earth. Her latest book, "A Fire Runs Through All...
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In Salon 29. we are joined by honeybee researcher Maggie Shanahan, and author of the 2022 paper “Honey Bees and Industrial Agriculture: What Researchers are Missing, and Why it’s a Problem” - Link. The conclusion of that paper offers a great introduction to our conversation with Maggie in this episode of the Salon:
"When honey bee researchers recognize industrial agriculture as the root cause of honey bee health issues, we open ourselves to the opportunity to collaborate meaningfully in these movements, and contribute to the future that must be built. We add our voices to the growing chorus that knows, and insists, that industrial agriculture is not the only way. It is one way. It is a way that we made. It is a thing we can change. The question is whether we open up and allow that change to happen through us, or dig in our heels until that change happens to us."
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