What is up everyone? Kevin from Epic Gardening here. It's been a little bit of time since we've had a guest on the show and so today I have and actually this whole week I have Peter Nelson who is a beekeeper and a cinematographer.

He's got a new documentary called The Pollinators and it's coming out in Newport Beach

at the Newport Beach Film Festival. If you're in the area, it's going to be

screening May 1st. So you can check that out and of course links will be in

description. But the first thing I thought we'd talk about with Peter is you know give him a chance to

introduce himself and just give us an overview of the film and then as we

progress through this week we're going to be talking about some of the issues with

bees I know we've had Dave from Crown Bees on, we've had other people on. I think

Peter is going to offer a pretty unique perspective because he's a storyteller, but also he's

effectively a lifelong beekeeper about 30 years now.

So, Peter, thanks for coming on the show.

Well, thanks for having me, Kevin.

It's really great to be here.

Really enjoy your show.

Thank you.

Yeah.

So do you want to just kind of give us the overview?

I think maybe from the title, we have an idea of what it's about, but you're taking a different approach with this film versus other other films as far as as I can tell?

Yeah, so the film is called The Pollinators and it's it's about basically it's about

honey bees and our food system and what I did with the film was I followed

commercial migratory beekeepers around the United States and as they pollinated crops and use that journey as a way to talk about our food and agricultural system, which is really dependent upon managed

honey bees, if you will.

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