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Keeping Bees – What's the Buzz All About?

KSCO’s Live and Local edition of Food Chain Radio with host Michael Olson

Guest: Lynne Bottazzo, beekeeper and apiary expert

Did you know that about one-third of the human diet is derived from insect-pollinated plants and that the honeybee is responsible for 80 percent of this pollination? Learn how bees produce different kinds of honey and the plight of bees due to pesticides and colony collapse disorder.

Guest beekeeper, Lynne Bottazzo, is passionate about her profession of caring for bees, traveling throughout the state with her hives, making delicious honey, and raising awareness about the serious plight of bees.

Join host and moderator Michael Olson, an award winning broadcast personality, author, and speaker, as he broadcasts KSCO Food Chain Radio program LIVE AND LOCAL from the Aptos Farmers Market.

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