At the very end, Hannah was actually sticking the recording microphone down into the colony while the bees were contentedly buzzing away.
She was a lot more comfortable and the bees took note. Toward the end of our afternoon in Mike’s bee yard, Hannah visibly relaxed. We beekeepers tend to forget our first experience with an open hive it can be somewhat intimidating for a new-bee. When Hannah first suited up and stood by an open hive, you could tell she was… well, tense. Mike is also experienced in handling reporters and quickly agreed to host Hannah at his home bee yard to see what the inside of a bee hive looked (and sounded, since this is radio) like. As all we had at the time were dead hives, we suggested a meeting with the Center of Michigan Beekeepers (COMB) club president Mike Risk. Toward the end of her interview, she asked this writer to see some bees. Intitally, she was asking questions about the farm bill but the conversation soon drifted over to the role of honey bees and the state of the honey bees in general. Hannah had the interest in finding out about honey bees and was sort of starting from scratch. You can listen to the broadcast by clicking here.įinally, another field reporter, Hannah Meiklejohn, this time from WKAR radio, the public radio station broadcast out of Michigan State University, contacted this writer a few weeks after conference. The half-hour long program is a mix and talk and music (bee themed, of course). The radio program featured two beekeepers and they talked about the issues surrounding honey bees. Rich is getting to be an old hand at this sort of thing. In case you missed it, click here to listen to Sara’s report.Īt the other end of the state in Ann Arbor, Detroit beekeeper Rich Wieske, of Green Toe Gardens, was the guest on an Ann Arbor talk radio station. This report was originally aired on Tuesday, April 8, 2014. The first of her reports is now available on Michigan Radio, part of the National Public Radio network. She spent two days tracking down her sources and interviewing them. Surprisingly, Sara got the OK from her boss(es) and she showed up at the conference, voice recording equipment in hand. During the course of the conversation we mentioned that the annual MBA spring conference was just a week away and that would be a good place to get to interview all of the Michigan honey bee movers and shakers in one place. She contacted this writer about a week before the conference with questions about the recent bee forage initiative in the 2014 Farm Bill. If you were fortunate enough to attend the 2014 spring conference in early March, you may have noticed Sara Hoover, a field producer from Interlochen public radio. If nothing else, all of this press coverage has certainly raised the awareness among the public of the problems honey bees are currently encountering. But still, as is said in Hollywood, there is no such thing as bad press. Unfortunately, the topic is usually about the problems that honey bees are experiencing. There is little doubt that honey bees have been enjoying good press over the past few years.
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