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Arizona is Swarming
01/31/2026
Arizona is Swarming
Season 7 Episode 4: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – Arizona is Swarming It’s been a bit wetter than last year in Arizona and the bees are swarming. I know that because I chatted with my niece, Monica King, who is based just outside Tucson. We talk about swarming, some serious pesticide damage, swimming pools, and bee rescue work. Southern Arizona Beekeepers Association https://www.southernazbeekeepers.org/ Monica's YouTube channel Recorded in Calgary, Alberta, Canada in January 2026. Please subscribe, like, love, and follow. We live or die by your adulation. Podcast website: About Ron Miksha: Finally: email your questions, comments, and angst: miksha@gmail.com
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What's Blooming in January?
01/28/2026
What's Blooming in January?
Season 7 Episode 3: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – What's Blooming in January? What's Blooming in January? Not much. Unless you're in the deep south, west coast, or Hawaii. We look at these places and we look at how to feed bees in colder areas. Recorded in Calgary, Alberta, Canada in January 2026. Please subscribe, like, love, and follow. We live or die by your adulation. Podcast website: About Ron Miksha: Finally: email your questions, comments, and angst: miksha@gmail.com
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139 Ways your Bees Can Die
01/18/2026
139 Ways your Bees Can Die
Season 7 Episode 2: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – 139 Ways your Bees Can Die Enjoy this quick overview of 139 honey bee pathogens and pests that should be keeping you awake at night. Have fun! Recorded in Calgary, Alberta, Canada in January 2026. Please subscribe, like, love, and follow. We live or die by your adulation. Podcast website: About Ron Miksha: Finally: email your questions, comments, and angst: miksha@gmail.com
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Ten Bee Predictions for 2026
01/09/2026
Ten Bee Predictions for 2026
Season 7 Episode 1: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – Ten bee predictions for 2026 Here we go. I might be wrong more than right, but it’s still worth a think. 1. I expect more bees declines, but not kept honey bees. 2. Honey bee colony numbers will surprise researchers. 3. Climate-driven phenological mismatches will dominate ecology news. 4. In the USA, lax rules will allow easier registration of agriculture chemicals, resulting in more pollinator deaths. 5. I predict pollinator restoration projects will be big. 6. I expect a new pathogen jump from honey bees to wild bees. 7. In 2026, I think that there will be bee stories regarding extreme weather. 8. I expect at least one article titled something like “Tiny robots are replacing bees as pollinators.” 9. Not a wild prediction, but I think bees will be less common on social media in 2026. 10. Robotic androids will not replace beekeepers in the field during 2026. In 2026, I don’t expect to see: Robots lighting smokers Robots reading brood patterns Robots making judgement calls about nectar flows, weather, and beekeeper intuition Or even Robots carrying deep honey supers to the truck Recorded in Calgary, Alberta, Canada in January 2026. Please subscribe, like, love, and follow. We live or die by your adulation. Podcast website: About Ron Miksha: Finally: email your questions, comments, and angst: miksha@gmail.com
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2026 Short Trailer
01/08/2026
2026 Short Trailer
Season 7 Episode 0: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – 2026 Short Trailer This trailer, our introduction to Season 7, sets the stage for season 7, the About Bees podcast's next 12 episodes. Our winter season. A great time to get caught up. Enjoy. Recorded in Calgary, Alberta, Canada in January 2026. Please subscribe, like, love, and follow. We live or die by your adulation. Podcast website: About Ron Miksha: Finally: email your questions, comments, and angst: miksha@gmail.com
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2025: Ten Bee News Stories
12/31/2025
2025: Ten Bee News Stories
Season 6 Episode 12 About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – 2025: Ten Bee News Stories Links to our ten featured news stories from 2025: 62% Bee Losses Honey Bee Health Washington State study on colony losses USDA pinpoints reason for colony collapse Michigan State USDA study shows virus magnification via mites UBC Pheromone signalling reduced by viruses, leading to supercedure Developmental and Caste Regulation (weak queen resistance to pesticides) California Almond Growers PDF Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems – natural mix of pollens leads to better bee success Engineered yeast provides rare but essential pollen sterols for honeybees. Nature First continent-wide bee strategy (Canada and USA) plan to protect bees Recorded in Calgary, Alberta, Canada in December 2025. Please subscribe, like, love, and follow. We live or die by your adulation. Podcast website: About Ron Miksha: Finally: email your questions, comments, and angst: miksha@gmail.com
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Bees or Greenhouses?
12/30/2025
Bees or Greenhouses?
Season 6 Episode 11: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – Bees or Greenhouses? Bees or Greenhouses? Which would make more money as a business? Ron chats with his brother Joe of , a Wisconsin greenhouse business. We engage in a race to the bottom. I make the case that beekeeping is definitely the less profitable business. Recorded in Calgary, Alberta, Canada in December 2025. Ricky Nelson's Garden Party: Please subscribe, like, love, and follow. We live or die by your adulation. Podcast website: About Ron Miksha: Finally: email your questions, comments, and angst: miksha@gmail.com
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A Langstroth Christmas
12/25/2025
A Langstroth Christmas
Season 6 Episode 10: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – A Langstroth Christmas Let's look at the inventor of the modern North American beehive. It's Christmas and it's L.L. Langstroth's birthday. Hope you enjoy this! Recorded in Calgary, Alberta, Canada in December 2025. Please subscribe, like, love, and follow. We live or die by your adulation. Podcast website: About Ron Miksha: Finally: email your questions, comments, and angst: miksha@gmail.com
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A Candid Chat with Alberta's (former) Agriculture Minister
12/13/2025
A Candid Chat with Alberta's (former) Agriculture Minister
Season 6 Episode 9: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – A Candid Chat with Alberta's (former) Agriculture Minister In this episode, I enjoy a conversation with the Honorable Oneil Carlier, former Agriculture Minister of Alberta. Alberta is cowboys and ranching and enormous forests and wheat fields and wide-open spaces. Alberta, where I live, is also the biggest honey-producer in Canada. All of this is handled through the Agriculture Ministry which was directed by Oneil Carlier. We touch on Oneil’s experiences growing up in the cowboy town of Val Marie, Saskatchewan, working in geosciences, helping workers through collective bargaining, and enabling agriculture in Alberta. Mr. Carlier is candid about his life and his job as the Honorable Minister. Hope you enjoy this! Stompin’ Tom’s song Ian Tyson’s song Recorded in Calgary, Alberta, Canada in December 2025. Please subscribe, like, love, and follow. We live or die by your adulation. Podcast website: About Ron Miksha: Finally: email your questions, comments, and angst: miksha@gmail.com
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Buzz Pollination in the Greenhouse
12/08/2025
Buzz Pollination in the Greenhouse
Season 6 Episode 8: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – Buzz Pollination in the Greenhouse I was looking around for something in bloom here in December to talk about on this podcast, but I didn’t feel like stepping outside into the deep snow and arctic temperatures. Then I realized that greenhouses are full of blooming plants – pollinated by bumble bees, mostly. So, that’s what we’re doing on this short episode. We talk about the risks and benefits of bumble bee pollination inside greenhouses. Recorded in Calgary, Alberta, Canada in December 2025. Please subscribe, like, love, and follow. We live or die by your adulation. Podcast website: About Ron Miksha: Finally: email your questions, comments, and angst: miksha@gmail.com
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What’s it like to run 6,000 hives of bees?
12/05/2025
What’s it like to run 6,000 hives of bees?
Season 6 Episode 7: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – What’s it like to run 6,000 hives of bees? What is it like being responsible for 6,000 colonies, a couple dozen employees, and 150 apiary locations? And producing and selling over a million pounds of honey each year? Here’s your chance to find out. We visit with Murray Hannigan of Hannigan Honey. The operation is in Saskatchewan, eight hours north of the US border. Honey crops in his area are usually big but depend on keen management. We discuss queen production, disease control, and crew management. Murray tells us what works for him. Whooping crane music: Hannigan Honey: Recorded in Calgary, Alberta, Canada in November 2025. Please subscribe, like, love, and follow. We live or die by your adulation. Podcast website: About Ron Miksha: Finally: email your questions, comments, and angst: miksha@gmail.com
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Is All Manuka Honey Fake?
11/30/2025
Is All Manuka Honey Fake?
Season 6 Episode 6: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – Is All Manuka Honey Fake? Is all manuka honey fake? I used to think that manuka is overrated. Not much there, there – if you know what I mean. Yes, of course I’m a cynic, or at least a skeptic. But follow along with this episode and see why I changed. It’s a path of discovery. We will cover the fraud fights, the discovery of manuka’s antibacterial qualities, how honey kills germs, and my conversion to an appreciation of this amazing honey. How does it work? What does it taste like? You’ll have to listen to find out. Recorded in Calgary, Alberta, Canada in November 2025. Please subscribe, like, love, and follow. We live or die by your adulation. Podcast website: About Ron Miksha: Finally: email your questions, comments, and angst: miksha@gmail.com
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Philosopher-Beekeeper Richard Taylor
11/07/2025
Philosopher-Beekeeper Richard Taylor
Season 6 Episode 5: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – Philosopher-Beekeeper Richard Taylor Dr. Richard Taylor's 106th birthday memorial is this week. That's as good of an excuse as any to open up his best-selling book, The Joys of Beekeeping, and chat about his life as a commercial beekeeper and philosophy professor. We look at his life and explore his thoughts on being a better beekeeper and a better person. Enjoy! Recorded in Calgary, Alberta, Canada in November 2025. Please subscribe, like, love, and follow. We live or die by your adulation. Podcast website: About Ron Miksha: Finally: email your questions, comments, and angst: miksha@gmail.com
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Brother Joe: Bees & Greenhouses
11/04/2025
Brother Joe: Bees & Greenhouses
Season 6 Episode 4: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – Brother Joe: Bees & Greenhouses Joe and I talk about neonicotinoids (and other poisons), problems with wax worms, the greenhouse business, our oldest brother, David, and innovations, a BrainPopping drink, politics, economics, and "Why be good?" Hope you enjoy this episode. Recorded in Calgary, Alberta, Canada in October 2025. Honeymoon Acres: BrainPop - New Age Drinks: Please subscribe, like, love, and follow. We live or die by your adulation. Podcast website: About Ron Miksha: Finally: email your questions, comments, and angst: miksha@gmail.com
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A Halloween Shorty
10/31/2025
A Halloween Shorty
Season 6 Episode 3: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – A Halloween Shorty Do you celebrate Halloween? Beekeepers should. Listen to find out why. Recorded in Calgary, Alberta, Canada in October 2025. Please subscribe, like, love, and follow. We live or die by your adulation. Podcast website: About Ron Miksha: Finally: email your questions, comments, and angst: miksha@gmail.com
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Down in October
10/29/2025
Down in October
Season 6 Episode 2: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – Down in October It's October and things are shutting down here in North America - at least the part of North America that's north of Mexico. Just before it all ends, there are a few final bursts of flowers to treat pollinators of all shapes and sizes. Today, we talk about Asters, the stars of fall, and Brazilian Pepperbush and Melaleuca, the intruders of Florida's deep south. All three of these plants give a little end-of-season honey and support before winter to your bees and to wild pollinators. Recorded in Calgary, Alberta, Canada in October 2025. Please subscribe, like, love, and follow. We live or die by your adulation. Podcast website: About Ron Miksha: Finally: email your questions, comments, and angst: miksha@gmail.com
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Apimondia 2025
10/23/2025
Apimondia 2025
Season 6 Episode 1: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – Apimondia 2025 Ron is back from Apimondia Scandinavia 2025. If you missed this world bee event, listen up as we walk through the Global Honey Bar, hundreds of posters, the mega-exhibition hall, and the heart of the conference - the presentations. This is not an exhaustive review, but this overview will give you a sense for the dizzying amount of bee knowledge on display in Copenhagen at Apimondia 2025. Recorded in Calgary, Alberta, Canada in October 2025. Please subscribe, like, love, and follow. We live or die by your adulation. Podcast website: About Ron Miksha: Finally: email your questions, comments, and angst: miksha@gmail.com
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The Autumn Flower: Goldenrod. Plus a bonus - the end of human civilization
10/10/2025
The Autumn Flower: Goldenrod. Plus a bonus - the end of human civilization
Season 5 Episode 12: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – The Autumn Flower: Goldenrod. Plus a bonus - the end of human civilization Goldenrod is the keystone species for plant, animal, and ecological survival in a huge part of North America. It is also suffering from an unexpected problem, which is hurting bees, butterflies, and other pollinators. That's this episode's bonus - the collapse of human civilzation. Recorded in Calgary, Alberta, Canada in October 2025. Please subscribe, like, love, and follow. We live or die by your adulation. Podcast website: About Ron Miksha: Finally: email your questions, comments, and angst: miksha@gmail.com
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Bright Shiny Bees
10/02/2025
Bright Shiny Bees
Season 5 Episode 11: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – Bright Shiny Bees Our guest today is Ilan Domnich of the . We dig deeply into the care and appreciation of native bees in North America. Bright green bees, yellow-faced bees, bees that make cellophane (sort of), mine into the sand, plus tiny, tiny bees. Bees that turn their blood into wine? This episode is a trip. We talk about taking care of native, wild bees and helping them help us. Bee hotels? Maybe they do more harm than good. Sticks and leaves? Your excuse to let your garden go wild in the fall. Build your own bumble bee nests? We chat about that, too. Learn more about wild bees: Please subscribe, like, love, and follow. We live or die by your adulation. Podcast website: About Ron Miksha: Finally: email your questions, comments, and angst: miksha@gmail.com
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Apimondia: The World's Bee Meeting
09/13/2025
Apimondia: The World's Bee Meeting
Season 5 Episode 10: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – Apimondia: The World's Bee Meeting This short introduction to Apimondia will be of interest to all beekeepers, whether attending Apimondia 2025 in Copenhagen or not. I hope you are among those going to the conference! Please subscribe, like, love, and follow. We live or die by your adulation. Podcast website: About Ron Miksha: Finally: email your questions, comments, and angst: miksha@gmail.com
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Beekeeping along Canada's Sunshine Coast
09/05/2025
Beekeeping along Canada's Sunshine Coast
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 a honey producer (mostly Himalayan blackberry honey) and he produces and sells queens and nucs. It's a really different part of Canada - a rainforest where it seldom snows, but summers can get hot and sunny. This episode was recorded in Halfmoon Bay, British Columbia, in September 2025. Please subscribe, like, love, and follow. We live or die by your adulation. Podcast website: About Ron Miksha: Finally: email your questions, comments, and angst: miksha@gmail.com
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Chile for Avocado Pollination, Queen Production, and Adventure
08/31/2025
Chile for Avocado Pollination, Queen Production, and Adventure
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 farmer. We talk about the country of Chile, Francisco's 43 years of beekeeping, queen breeding, Francisco's friendship with researcher John Kefuss, Francisco's family-run bee farm, avocado pollination, avocado honey, exporting queens, and we talk about why you should visit Francisco in South America.. This episode was recorded in August 2025. Francisco Rey's Chilean Bee Farm: Please subscribe, like, love, and follow. We live or die by your adulation. Podcast website: About Ron Miksha: Finally: email your questions, comments, and angst: miksha@gmail.com
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Buckwheat: Our Favourite August Honey Plant
08/30/2025
Buckwheat: Our Favourite August Honey Plant
Season 5 Episode 7: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – Buckwheat: Our Favourite August Honey Plant Buckwheat is quirky. Both the plant and the honey. We look at both - plant and honey - in today's podcast. Especially the black, chokingly-strong honey. Buckwheat, though often mistaken for a cereal grain, is actually a member of the Polygonaceae family, kin to rhubarb and sorrel. First cultivated in China more than 6,000 years ago, it spread westward along trade routes and became a staple in Eastern Europe for its short growing season, tolerance of poor soils, and high-protein, gluten-free grain. Farmers turned it into groats, roasted kasha, soba noodles, dumplings, pancakes, and beer. In North America, buckwheat once covered millions of acres, especially in Pennsylvania, New York, and later Manitoba. Today, only about 50,000 acres remain in the U.S., with North Dakota as the largest producer. Farmers planted it as a rescue crop when other fields failed, and its continuous bloom provided nectar during mid-summer gaps. For bees and beekeepers, buckwheat is both boon and bane. Yields could soar to 200 pounds per hive in good years, but hot, dry weather can shut nectar off completely. The honey is almost black, rich in minerals and antioxidants, with a flavor that people either cherish or despise. Folks often describe it as barnyard-like, molasses-like, or medicinal. Culturally, buckwheat honey was prized by Eastern European immigrants and Jewish communities, especially for Rosh Hashanah. Today, production is rare, but the memory and distinct taste linger. I know. I made a few thousand pounds of buckwheat years ago in Pennsylvania and I spill some memories here today. This episode was recorded in August 2025. Please subscribe, like, love, and follow. We live or die by your adulation. Podcast website: About Ron Miksha: Finally: email your questions, comments, and angst: miksha@gmail.com
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Laura Sends us Deep into the Beekeeping Groove
08/21/2025
Laura Sends us Deep into the Beekeeping Groove
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 Alberta, Canada, with beekeeper Laura Barritt. We look at commercial beekeeping in New Zealand and touch on Sir Edmund Hillary, manuka honey, queen breeding, package shaking, honey producing by under supering, migratory beekeeping, favourite honeys, the Bee Cube®, viral 13-year-old harvesting honey in his house, maintaining queen bee lines, aging of beekeepers, fireweed honey production, honey bee adaptaions to new crops, and becoming a commercial beekeeper. Links from this episode: This episode was recorded in July 2025. Please subscribe, like, love, and follow. We live or die by your adulation. Podcast website: About Ron Miksha: Finally: email your questions, comments, and angst: miksha@gmail.com
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World's Most Interesting Bee Museum - and more...
08/14/2025
World's Most Interesting Bee Museum - and more...
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 Slovenia and family in Hungary. You don't want to miss what this curious beekeeper has to say about what he saw! Among other things,, I explored the world's most interesting beekeeping museum. What would you put into the museum if it were yours? This episode was recorded in August 2025. Please subscribe, like, love, and follow. We live or die by your adulation. Podcast website: About Ron Miksha: Finally: email your questions, comments, and angst: miksha@gmail.com
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Bees, Greenhouses, and 18-hour Work Days
07/26/2025
Bees, Greenhouses, and 18-hour Work Days
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 to keep a dozen hives of bees on the side to pollinate a10-acre pumpkin patch. Our guest is Joe McShaw, of in Wisconsin. Joe is Ron's youngest brother, so we have a lot of fun on this episode. We do bees, wintering (or not), raising plants to retail, and we answer that old question, "Why be good?" Visit Honeymoon Acres: This episode was recorded in July 2025. Please subscribe, like, love, and follow. We live or die by your adulation. Podcast website: About Ron Miksha: Finally: email your questions, comments, and angst: miksha@gmail.com
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Ask Me Anything for July 2025
07/21/2025
Ask Me Anything for July 2025
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 wants advice with their bees. Keep this phrase in your toolkit. Also, just a bit about putting supers on and taking supers off. Summer management questions, answered in this AMA. This episode was recorded in July 2025. Please subscribe, like, love, and follow. We live or die by your adulation. Podcast website: About Ron Miksha: Finally: email your questions, comments, and angst: miksha@gmail.com
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July's Best Honey Plant
07/13/2025
July's Best Honey Plant
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 is sweet clover. It's a spectacular honey plant, one of the best in the world, but it originated far away from the western plains. It's invasive. Wild. Part of today's episode considers what this means - native, invasive; old, new; wanted, unwanted. This episode was recorded in July 2025. Please subscribe, like, love, and follow. We live or die by your adulation. Podcast website: About Ron Miksha: Finally: email your questions, comments, and angst: ron@aboutbees.net
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Beekeeping on Canada Day
07/03/2025
Beekeeping on Canada Day
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 retrieved, and of course Stompin' Tom Connors. Enjoy, eh? This episode was recorded in July 2025. Please subscribe, like, love, and follow. We live or die by your adulation. Podcast website: About Ron Miksha: Finally: email your questions, comments, and angst: ron@aboutbees.net
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Slovenia, the Country that Buzzes
06/29/2025
Slovenia, the Country that Buzzes
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 country of Slovenia. I always learn a lot about beekeeping by looking at beekeeping in other parts of the world. It’s amazing how many good ideas, and a few bad ones, I pick up this way. Anyway, I wrote a bit about beekeeping in the quaint country of Slovenia, and today I am reading my story to you. One of the first things I discovered during my research, is that the two million people in Slovenia are almost all beekeepers. Or they know a beekeeper. Or they know where to buy good local honey from a beekeeper. With ten thousand beekeepers, that’s a lot more than the number of people keeping bees in many much larger and more populous countries. The country of Slovenia borders on Austria, Hungary, Croatia, and Italy. What a mix! And the scenery goes from ice-capped Alps to Mediterranean seaside. We have a lot of history, culture, and beekeeping to do – so, let’s get going! This episode was recorded in June 2025. Please subscribe, like, love, and follow. We live or die by your adulation. Podcast website: About Ron Miksha: Finally: email your questions, comments, and angst: ron@aboutbees.net
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