PolliNation | A Pollinator Health Podcast

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2025-02-17

  283 - BEEvent: the Mighty Conference on Pollinators for Gardeners | PolliNation

The BEEvent, hosted annually by the Linn County Master Gardeners, provides gardeners and small farmers with essential knowledge and practical tools to support and protect bee pollinators. This week, Master Gardeners Ranee Webb and Rich Little join us t...
2025-02-03

  282 - Checklist of the Bees of Washington State | PolliNation

While there has been a lot of attention to the plight of wild bees, we are increasingly discovering that there is a lot more that we don’t know. A state checklist of bees is a great starting point for taking stock of what we do know. This week I am joi...
2025-01-27

  281 - Rock Gardens with Dancing Oaks Nursery | PolliNation

This week on PolliNation, Fred Weisensee from Dancing Oaks Nursery in Monmouth, OR shares tips on creating a pollinator rock garden using native and exotic plants inspired by Oregon's high-elevation landscapes  Dancing Oaks Nursery: https://dancingoak...
2025-01-20

  280 - Buzzing with Innovation | PolliNation

 Karen Pedersen is a fifth generation commercial beekeeper and apiary owner in Cut Knife, Saskatchewan, Canada. Pedersen Apiaries make hundreds of pounds of honey bee colony, while wintering single brood chamber colonies outdoors when temperatures are ...
2025-01-13

  279 - Southern Oregon Buzzway | PolliNation

In this episode we learn about an effort to map pollinator habitat, as well as their stories, in Southern Oregon. The Southern Oregon Buzzway is a collaboration between Southern Oregon University and Pollinator Project Rogue Valley.  Pollinator Project...
2025-01-06

  278 - Fabrication For Beekeepers | PolliNation

This week on our Commercial Beekeeping segment, Nick VanCalcar from VanCalcar Apiaries in Amity, Oregon joins us to discuss the importance of doing your own fabrication in beekeeping operations.
2024-12-23

  277 - New PNW Bee Keys | PolliNation

There are over a thousand species of bees in the Pacific Northwest. However, The resources available for someone to tell the bees apart is lacking for this region. In this episode we hear from the team that is working to solve this problem. Carol Yamad...
2024-12-16

  276 - Large Colony Losses Looming

 Early reports are that there may be a large loss of commercial honey bee colonies across the U.S. this winter. In this episode we are joined by co-host Harry Vanderpool to talk with Russell Heitkam. Russell is a second generation beekeeper and Norther...
2024-12-09

  275 - Do Filter Strips Help Bees and Butterflies?

Filter strips surround agricultural fields and reduce soil loss and pesticide effluent reaching streams and rivers. They can also host flowering plants that bees and butterflies like. We talk to Dr. Amy Toth about whether these narrow ribbons of land c...
2024-12-02

  274 - Commercial Beekeeping

This week we kick off our new segment on commercial beekeeping with our new co-host, Harry Vanderpool of Vanderpool Farms in Salem, OR. Harry shares his beekeeping journey and what it takes to run a successful operation.