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Bees with Ben: A Podcast for Bee Lovers
The Ben’s Bees Honey House
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Bees with Ben: A Podcast for Bee Lovers! 🐝

Any of you that know me know, I love a good yarn! Whether it’s in my suburban street, down at the farmers market, rescuing an unruly bee colony, on stage at an apiary conference, or just at the dinner table, I am full of ideas about this, that and the other thing. One the of the best aspects of my job is getting out and about with local people, sharing the knowledge I have about bees, the environment, produce, gardening and healthy living. Therefore, it might not surprise you that the idea of starting a podcast has been bubbling away for some time!

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I am super excited to be doing these podcasts and

I am super excited to be doing these podcasts and just finished recording with Norwegian beekeeper Manuel Hempel!
The podcast will be up in 2 weeks but next Thursday is Nicholas Bishop from the London Honey Company! @vindfloy.bees @anglo.sardo #podcast

People often ask me what’s the funniest thing th

People often ask me what’s the funniest thing that has happened to you Ben with bees? Having a hive fall through the back window was up there! .
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Love the little notes people leave in my honey hou

Love the little notes people leave in my honey house! #themlovefeels

Happy World Bee Day! Ivan Aristeguieta became a f

Happy World Bee Day!
Ivan Aristeguieta became a full time comedian after having a successful career as a Brew Master and Food Technologist in his home country of Venezuela. He left the Brewery, but drinking beer is still part of his job. He quickly escalated to become a prominent feature in the new Venezuelan comedy movement; selling out shows around Venezuela and Miami-Florida (USA). In 2012 Ivan migrated to Australia and took on the great challenge of performing comedy in a second language. 8 years after performing comedy for the first time in English, Ivan is one happy comedy-migrant and willing to grab hold of all the wonderful opportunities the First-World has to offer! Follow this comedian guru @ivancomedy

World Bee Day 2020: Celebrating Bees in Isolation

World Bee Day 2020: Celebrating Bees in Isolation
Some people love Christmas. Others get a real kick out of birthdays. But there is another day of the year that I am most excited about celebrating, and it’s just around the corner. World Bee Day is the 20th of May 2020! A day to celebrate why bees are so important and to shine a light on all the miraculous things bees do to help us and our planet. World Bee Day was set up by the United Nations to raise awareness of these vital pollinators, highlighting the threats bees face daily and singing them praise for their incredible contribution to sustainable development. The UN chose the 20th of May as it was the birthday of 18th-century Slovenian pioneer of modern beekeeping, Anton Janša, who “praised the bees for their ability to work so hard, while needing so little attention”. World Bee Day is celebrated all over the globe through amazing events run by the bee-loving community; however, due to the unprecedented COVID-19 crisis, most World Bee Day activities have been cancelled this year or at least altered to comply with social distancing regulations. This made me want to reach out to you, the Ben’s Bees Community, as my heart breaks to think that our favourite fuzzy friends might go unnoticed in 2020! The show must go on, and here are some tips for celebrating World Bee Day from the comfort of your own city, suburb, or town.
Get to work planting a bee-friendly garden; there has never been a better time to make your backyard a sanctuary for both you and the bees. Throw some dollars in the pocket of your local beekeeper and buy raw honey from a small, ethical producer. Set up a water fountain so the bees have somewhere to drink when they are thirsty. Throw out nasty pesticides, fungicides and herbicides if you can. And explain to kids that bees are the ones out there pollinating the crops that fill their plates and tummies at night. Bless the bees this World Bee Day and keep an eye out on Ben’s Bees social media for more bee-loving celebrations this week. Love Ben x

Bees with Ben: A Podcast for Bee Lovers Any of yo

Bees with Ben: A Podcast for Bee Lovers
Any of you that know me know, I love a good yarn! Whether it’s in my suburban street, down at the farmers market, rescuing an unruly bee colony, on stage at an apiary conference, or just at the dinner table, I am full of ideas about this, that and the other thing. One the of the best aspects of my job is getting out and about with local people, sharing the knowledge I have about bees, the environment, produce, gardening and healthy living. Therefore, it might not surprise you that the idea of starting a podcast has been bubbling away for some time, and this week I am super-duper happy to announce that I have gone live on the radio (well, podcast) waves, to bring you BEES WITH BEN– a podcast of stories, tips, and expertise about bees, food, the environment and good living.
With years of experience getting on my soapbox, I feel pretty fit for the world of podcasting! I have been a representative at local and international conferences. I have appeared on popular TV and radio programs (including The Project, ABC radio, Network Ten News, and Channel Nine’s reality show, Dream Job). I have launched educational programs at schools and community spaces. I have travelled just to spend time with other beekeepers and learn their craft. I am also a big chatter box in the Melbourne community, and love to get out and about meeting other keepers and local businesspeople. For all of these reasons, I am beyond excited to bring you BEES WITH BEN – a regular podcast where I interview people from the Ben’s Bees community so that you too can see how brilliant local folks are at getting amazing things done using passion, hard work and will power. Even more exciting is that this podcast will follow me wherever I go, so I am keen in the future to introduce you to my heroes and friends overseas as well.
Check out the BEES WITH BEN podcast via Anchor podcasts where you will find Episode Zero – the first of many – where I say hello and have a chat about myself mainly to get the ball rolling for the many amazing guests I have lined up to chat with you, my bee community. Stay tuned for updates! https://anchor.fm/ben-the-beeman Happy listening! x

Mother’s Day always gets me thinking about how I

Mother’s Day always gets me thinking about how I came to be on this incredible planet, and the amazing woman who brought me into the world-- my mum, Lesley!
You see, Lesley is tough. She arrived in Australia as a Ten Pound Pom: a British citizen that migrated here after the Second World War through the Assisted Passage Migration Scheme. Ten Pound Poms were called this as they only had to pay £10 in processing fees to migrate, and the Commonwealth arranged for their travel on chartered ships and planes. Moving across the world to a new home isn’t easy, and there’s no doubt that my mum showed her strength by packing up and making such a big change. Over the past 41 years, I have known her to be tenacious, not to mention kind, generous and a wonderful grandmother to my three kids. She is also incredibly hard working and helps me make Ben’s Bees candles and embed wax into frames for hives.
But having a baby wasn’t that easy for my mum. Over thirteen years, and two different husbands, my mum tried to get pregnant to no success. Nowadays, Lesley would have been diagnosed with polycystic ovarian syndrome-- a common issue among many women-- but in the 1960s there wasn’t the same understanding or knowledge about this condition. But due to her intense desire to be a mother, she decided to take part in a government health program for infertility that involved a human pituitary treatment. In a life-changing win for my mum, dad and (of course) me, the treatment was successful, and I was one of the 2000 babies produced through this test tube, or in vitro, fertilisation process. Happy Mother’s Day Maa x

‘Me’ first bee hive!

‘Me’ first bee hive!

The Ben’s Bees Honey House Not a single person

The Ben’s Bees Honey House
Not a single person that knows me would describe me as a shrinking violet. The limelight doesn’t scare me much, and I like to be out there, talking about what I love, meeting like-minded people and spreading the bee-news wherever I can. In other words, you could say that I am a happy-go-lucky extrovert with a sunny expression and … a penchant for the colour yellow! It reminds me of all the best things – flowers, sunshine, and of course bees, their honey, their wax, their comb! I have a yellow hat, yellow socks, and even a big yellow-splashed van!
With all this in mind, it might not surprise you as much as it probably should that I have done a little renovating on the honesty box out the front of my house in Melbourne’s eastern suburb of Blackburn. What was once a demure little wooden roadside stall suitable for just a few jars of honey, is now…a Ben’s Bees honey house, a miniature bee-produce store, painted in the most glorious colour of them all – bright, sunny, bee yellow!
You see, small business is where my heart’s at, and the COVID-19 lockdowns have made life tough for all of us with a business built on passion, not loads of cash. You will see that businesses all over Australia and the world have been finding new ways to make ends meet while we fight the virus together. The Ben’s Bees honesty-system Honey House can’t be missed and is even worth a drive or walk to collect your honey from a local producer! Its sunshine-y colour is sure to put a smile on your dial, and kids love it!
Let’s put the profit back into the pockets of small and local business owners, starting now, as we look inward and realise that we have to nurture what is made with passion and love. I look forward to seeing you make your purchases at the Ben’s Bees Honey House, at 15 Marilyn Court, Blackburn North. There is a wealth of honey supplies inside, and you just leave the correct change in the honesty box provided. A shopping trip to the little yellow hive on the corner couldn’t be more uplifting! See you at my place! Lots of love, Ben x

No one likes a home invader! Specially these bees

No one likes a home invader!
Specially these bees!! .
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Can’t wait till spring time as I miss my little

Can’t wait till spring time as I miss my little helper! .
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