This episode of Gritty and Green, it’s a deep dive into bees both the wild and the domesticated varieties! Host Meredith Nutting is joined by Amelia Mraz and Natasha Pham from Half Mad Honey to learn about mindfulness and honeybees. They do a deep dive on what it is like inside a honeybee hive and then talk about how to save our native wild bees.
To learn more about Half Mad Honey go to: https://www.halfmadhoney.com/
More information about wild bees:
https://extension.psu.edu/conserving-wild-bees-in-pennsylvania
https://www.phillyorchards.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/UF023-Conserve-WIld-Bees.pdf
For information about what native plants to grow for our wild bees head to: https://homegrownnationalpark.org/
And here’s a cheat sheet of what to grow in your container garden”
https://hgnp.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/HNP-CONTAINER-GDN-L.2_8.5s.pdf
More information about growing, harvesting, and preserving herbs: https://extension.psu.edu/growing-harvesting-and-preserving-herbs
If you want more information about local sustainability go to https://www.greenphl.org