What is going on everyone? Kevin from Epic Gardening here. I'm back with Dave Hunter of Crown Bees and we're kind of tying up a lot of the knowledge we've learned from the last five episodes into the practicality of a home garden. How do you cultivate an environment that's good for bees of all types?

Because we've learned now that you know there are many bees

and bee species that we want in our gardens that aren't that classic honeybee.

So I'm gonna let Dave come in and talk probably first a little bit about native bee hotels, what works

and what doesn't, and then going into the larger question of cultivating an environment that's

just going to be supportive of bees in general.

Got it.

This is a fun episode.

I always like, how do we help you be successful?

And so one of the easiest bees to raise that is a bee that nests in a hole.

You can clean them up.

They're right there. Using holes that can be opened, we find today, Costco, Home Depot, Walmarts. They're

all carrying stuff made in China, made out of bamboo, the holes of the wrong size, they're glued in.

I welcome that people are learning about native bees through buying low-end stuff.

That's okay.

If you are to be raising these bees healthily, we want you to be raising these

healthily, we want you to open these holes,

paper tubes that unravel, reads that snap open,

and you can see it, or wood trays that can be opened up and you can see what's going on there.

Those are the three components that, three types of holes that you're going to use best. So my company, Crown, is we have those, but you

find them other companies have them as well. Just be careful. They're not glued in. They're not too thin.

They're not they're not bamboo and they're not too thin, they're not bamboo, and they're not drilled blocks of something.

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