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The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

How to Get Started Beekeeping

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2022

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Beekeeping is an intimidating hobby to get into, but Hilary explains exactly how to get started…and why you just might want to wait?! Connect With Hilary Kearney:  Hilary Kearney is the founder of Girl Next Door Honey and the author of Queenspotting and The Little Book of Bees. Girl Next Door Honey Queenspotting The Little Book of Bees Shop the Store As an exclusive for listeners, use code EPICPODCAST for 5% off your entire first order on our store, featuring our flagship Birdies Raised Beds. These are the original metal raised beds, lasting up to 5-10x longer than wooden beds, are ethically made in Australia, and have a customizable modular design.   Shop now and get 5% off your first order. Get Our Books Looking for a beginner's guide to growing food in small spaces? Kevin’s book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, explains the core, essential information that you'll need to grow plants, no matter where you live! He also wrote Grow Bag Gardening to provide you with specialized knowledge that can bring you success when growing in fabric pots. Order signed copies of Kevin’s books, plus more of his favorite titles in our store. More Resources Looking for more information? Follow us: Our Blog YouTube (Including our Epic Homesteading and Jacques in the Garden channels) Instagram (Including Epic Homesteading, Jacques, and Chris) TikTok Facebook Facebook Group Discord Server   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

If you want to start beekeeping much like I do and you have no clue where to begin then

0:18.6

this episode is going to be great for you and honestly for me we have Hillary Kerney

0:22.6

back on the podcast founder of Girl Next Door Honey she got a couple books out Queen

0:26.9

spotting the Little Book of Bees also a pretty robust amount of course work

0:31.5

and education you can check out so Hillary I remember when I had moved into my

0:35.3

new place you mentioned make sure that you know beekeeping is the last thing

0:40.7

you you set up and I was it surprised me and so I'm curious why that is yeah

0:46.4

so that that's really only true if you have like a smaller space in your

0:51.8

you're using like every exhibit the way that I know you're gonna do so if you

0:57.5

have like a huge property you could get start you don't have to wait you know

1:01.9

but if you're working with kind of a more intensive spot it's definitely the

1:07.6

last thing you want to do because once you have the bees there it just

1:10.9

complicates everything like let's say like you're putting in your pond right

1:14.8

you already put it in and you're doing all the stonework and stuff and you're

1:18.3

having your mural painted well like at any of those could have been disrupted by

1:23.4

the bees you know if the bees are in the way if they're too close to the area

1:27.1

where the work is being done and somebody who's not comfortable with bees

1:31.2

has to go be in that space now you have an issue you know so sometimes you

1:36.8

you're trying to hire someone they don't want to do the job because you've got

1:39.8

bees too close sometimes the bees like don't know that person and they're

1:43.8

actually chasing them around like get out of you know get away from my hive you

1:48.1

know because it's interesting because like my bees are are pretty prominent in

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