What's up everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening Podcast. We're kicking off a

really cool week with Dave Hunter of Crown Bees. So we're going to talk

about what Crown Bees does as this week progresses and

we're going to go very deep into bees but the first thing we're going to talk

about is setting the stage. How do you play in tune with nature and why is it important to

follow the patterns of nature and why does nature always win and then how does that

relate to what we're talking about this week with bees?

So I figured I'd let Dave come in and set the stage for us.

So thanks for coming on the show, Dave.

Hey Kevin, this is just going to be great.

I totally, I love listening to your podcast and I'm honored to be playing with you this week.

Yeah, it's going to be a good time. So here's what I've kind of learned. When I walk, I live out in the

northwest in the Washington area and I walk out to my backyard and there's a yard. But I go little past that and here is a ravine and no one does anything to this big ravine with trees all stuff and yet everything

grows. Okay so my wife and I learned a little bit ago if I just let nature habits fun

with my yard I don't have to do much we found gosh years ago you'd

find aphids on a rose and we just want to tie in a little ribbon to that one rose and about two or three days

later we would see that there were no if it's on it. We hadn't done anything

nature had just worked itself out. Even last summer we had one of our raised beds, we had broccoli. And there was just gray, you know, the heads were perfect to pick there's gray gross yucky something

crawling all over that my wife and I looked at it it's like every single one was like

this so we picked one little spear one in parboiled it, see if we could kill the, whatever it was,

and it just tasted horrible.

Nah, that wasn't the answer.

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