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The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Crown Bees Native Bee Network

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2019

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

In our final episode, Dave talks about his incredible Native Bee Network, which I am personally participating in this year with mason bees and leafcutter bees. Connect with Crown Bees https://crownbees.com/ Instagram YouTube Facebook Order Field Guide to Urban Gardening My book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, will be out May 7, 2019. If you pre-order the book and forward your receipt to kevin@epicgardening.com, I'll send you a free pack of heirloom, organic seeds from one of my favorite seed suppliers! Pre-Order Field Guide to Urban Gardening Support Epic Gardening Support Epic Gardening on Patreon Follow Epic Gardening YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Facebook Group   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

What's going on everyone? Kevin from Epic Gardening here and I'm back for our final

0:06.2

episode for now at least with Dave Hunter of Crown Bees. So we've been going

0:11.4

into the life and times of bees. So we've been going into the life and times of bees quite in depth this week

0:16.6

which has been fantastic. We've learned a lot about bees that are not the

0:20.1

classic honeybee. How to cultivate a good bee environment and really just understanding

0:24.6

a little bit deeper and rounding out our knowledge of bees in the garden.

0:29.2

So I think it's a really good conclusion to this week to talk about Dave's program.

0:34.4

It's called the Native B network.

0:37.2

And so I am going to be participating in it this year.

0:40.0

I'm really excited for it.

0:41.4

But I thought, Dave, why don't you give us the pitch?

0:44.8

What is the Native B network?

0:46.1

What's going on with this program?

0:47.1

Thanks, Kevin.

0:49.1

So I'm on a conference call, well, every quarter at least with a whole bunch of scientists,

0:55.2

worldwide scientists that kind of focus on the whole nesting bees and it's 12 with them

1:00.3

and one in me and gosh years ago a couple years ago one of this

1:03.7

there's talk I said you guys out of the 350 species is a possible of these

1:10.1

types of bees you're only talking. Do you want to know why?

1:14.4

Someone said humorous, Hunter, why? I said, because that's all you have in your hands.

1:21.1

We've got a one European mud using bee, one Asian mud using bee, and one US mud using bee, and that's it.

1:30.6

I said, what if I went out and gave you guys more bees to study?

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