S2E9.1 | Beekeeping with Cloister Honey – Paper Trails Podcast

SEASON 2: EPISODE NUMBER: 9.1

EPISODE GUEST: Cloister Honey…and their Bees

Nick suited up and got a lesson in beekeeping from Charlotte, NC’s own Cloister Honey. (there were no bees with Jerry Seinfeld’s voice, unfortunately.) It’s an entirely fascinating process learning about the the work of the queen, the hive, what makes a have successful.

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“Nature is brutally efficient.” Cloister Honey’s Randall York shares on the unforgiving behavior of how the hive crowns a new queen.

A few fun facts Nick shared from the hives:

1) You can move a hive 2 feet or 2 miles… nothing in between because the bees won’t find their hive

2) Bees only live for a few weeks

3) The bottom 2 boxes of hive are never touched bc that’s the honey for the bees to eat and live off of. The ones above that are the ones that bee keepers take to eat or sell.

Beekeeping is fascinating and we’re so excited to share a bit about what goes into their honey with you.

“In the hive, about 97% of all the bees in the hive are female. They do all the work. The males do nothing – all they do is they hope to mate.”

– Randall York, Cloister Honey

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