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It is election day and I’m excited to have a guest here to talk about Bee-Friendly Gardening and Bee-Friendly Practices and sustainability! from https://glorybee.com/ (GloryBee )in Eugene Oregon here’s Shandy Carroll! https://glorybee.com/ () It is election day and I have my mail in ballot in my purse and I’m excited to where my sticker the rest of the day! Tell me about your first gardening experience? I actually grew up in New Zealand, apparently my sentence structure is British Colony, which I really don’t know what that means. So, I grew up in New Zealand in a fairly rural part in a town known for it’s diving and fishing. I grew up in a nice area with a great big garden and a view of the ocean! The great thing about that spot was we could grow whatever we wanted! It’s pretty temperate located at 34º south on the coast tomatoes carrots lettuce kale All these things meant my mother didn’t have to drive 30 minutes into the supermarket too often. We had a really fun kitchen garden! So that was my first experience with it! I live in an apartment now my garden is some basil that is quite sad and some succulents that are doing pretty well because I can ignore them! I admire folks who are able to garden and my neighbors who have an amazing garden on their balcony. Sound issues of restaurant? Tell us about https://glorybee.com/ (Glory Bee )! https://glorybee.com/ (Glory Bee ) is a family owned company in Eugene OR it’s been in business since 1976. I have worked there for the last five years as the sustainability manager! The main products are natural food ingredients 30% of honey nuts grains flours sweeteners like agave and molasses once a year we bring in bees We have a partner who is a bee breeder. We have a a whole big event introduce our customers to bees and their hives. We have a whole education piece. Anyone can come that wants to learn about bees, they don’t hae to be getting bees to attend right? sell NUCs and hives and educational events Yes, anybody can come to the event It is in Eugene Oregon. we have food trucks and music Try to have lots of vendors that can talk about bee-friendly practices and bee friendly gardening! https://glorybee.com/savethebee () bee friendly practices for folks like myself where I don’t have a garden, I do live in an apartment complex. So I don’t have a garden so the easiest thing is to do is Have a side conversation with the property manager make sure that we are not putting harmful pesticides on the flowers. That’s important to because I have a pet and friends that come to visit so I don’t want pesticides sprayed around my home. products that are pollinated by bees are best to be organic for the bees. So sometimes that’s really easy to do. Where I live avocados that are pollinated by the bees. organic avocados cost like 10¢ organic almonds What about bees and almonds? My husband is always concerned about the water with almond trees that they require and the droughts in California. I know, that’s concerning I live in California, I’ve seen they’ve had to pull out almond plantations because there isn’t enough water for that agriculture sometimes. They’ve put in a lot of really friendly water saving practices so most of the existing almond farms have drip irrigations that’s because the price of water is going up so it makes business sense for those farms to put in those practices. Sometimes that is an excuse for people to eat cheese and not almonds, but the amount of water that goes into producing the amount of a pound of almonds vs a pound of meat it’s disproportional the amount of water needed to produce a pound of meat. it’s interesting to get hung up on the popular boogie man the big picture we do need to eat locally as... Support this podcast