Beekeeping 101: How You Can Cultivate Your Own Bee Colony | 3 Essential Tips
Finding Genius Podcast
Richard Jacobs
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 5 February 2023
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Today we connect with Tanya Phillips, a Director at Texas Honey Bee Farm based in Austin, Texas. In addition to her work at the bee farm, Tanya is also the author of Beginning Beekeeping: Everything You Need to Make Your Hive Thrive!, a book that outlines how to foster and maintain healthy, vibrant colonies.
Tanya has always found bees fascinating, and her initial interest blossomed into an immense passion for their preservation. Are you thinking of keeping a bee colony of your own? Tanya is certainly the person to guide you through the process…
Join the conversation now to learn about:
- What time of year to buy a new bee colony in Texas.
- The difference between male and female bees, and how each bee functions in their colonies.
- How the worker bee's and queen's colony cells are different from each other.
- What you can do to help your local bee population.
To find out more about Texas Honey Bee Farm, click here now!
Episode also available on Apple Podcast: http://apple.co/30PvU9C
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| 0:00.0 | I kind of found a bee's sort of fascinating |
| 0:02.5 | and had rescued a few out of swimming pools |
| 0:05.0 | or places like that. |
| 0:06.0 | Just always but it'd be kind of cool to get in a bee suit |
| 0:09.1 | and put it on and be surrounded by bees |
| 0:11.3 | and not be able to get hurt. |
| 0:13.9 | And that was all it really was when I started. |
| 0:16.7 | And then as soon as I started reading about the bees |
| 0:20.3 | and studying books and watching videos |
| 0:23.8 | and doing all this other stuff, |
| 0:24.9 | I really got completely swept away |
| 0:28.9 | in all sorts of parts of beekeeping. |
| 0:32.0 | It just became really fascinating. |
| 0:33.9 | Forget frequently asked questions. |
| 0:35.7 | Common sense, common knowledge, or Google. |
| 0:38.2 | How about advice from a real genius? |
| 0:40.4 | 95% of people in any profession |
| 0:42.7 | are good enough to be qualified in license. |
| 0:44.7 | 5% go up above a beyond. |
| 0:46.6 | They become very good at what they do, |
| 0:48.3 | but only 0.1%. |
| 0:50.4 | Are real geniuses. |
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