Our guest this week is organic beekeeper and gardener Patrick Pynes. I met Patrick through a comment he left on a blog post I did about Africanized bees. We talk about this subject as well as top bar hives and what it means to keep bees, as Patrick puts it, “beecentrically.” Patrick’s website is Honeybee Teacher. During the podcast we discuss:
- Les Crowder
- The language around beekeeping: “beecentric” vs. anthropocentric approaches to honeybees and “Bee-having” vs. “beekeeping”
- Dealing with swarms
- Golden Mean Top Bar hive, which you can see at backyardhive.com
- Africanized bees
- Aggression vs. defensiveness
- Top bar hives and Africanized bees
- Inspecting bees
- Advantages of top bar hives
- Eight frame Langstroth hives with foundationless frames
- Diseases
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OT: What do you do if you find a dead raccoon, possum, rabbit, cayote or deer in your backyard?
In LA, you call the Bureau of Sanitation.
nice episode! I’m working my way toward someday hosting bees in my backyard and I appreciate the (re)surgence of beecentered practices and the resources available now. Thanks Patrick and Erik!