Flower Power: Establishing Pollinator Habitat
Musings & Observations
November 12, 2022, 11am MT
Tammy Horn Potter’s entry to apiculture started with helping her grandfather in 1997. From there, her life followed a dog-legged path of a hobby becoming a career. Interested in cultural history, she wrote Bees in America: How the Honey Bee Shaped a Nation, in 2005. That effort led to writing Beeconomy: What Women and Bees teach us about Local Trade and Global Markets (2012), and involved travel to five continents and working for a queen bee company in Hawai’i. With the benefit of a private grant as start-up, she developed Coal Country Beeworks in 2008, working with surface mine companies in Eastern Kentucky to establish pollinator habitat as a reclamation management practice. She published Flower Power: Establishing Pollinator Habitat about that experience in 2019. In 2014, Tammy became the KY State Apiarist. In this role, she samples for USDA-APHIS Honey Bee Health Survey grants, has helped start the KY Queen Bee Breeders Association, and helped the Kentucky State Beekeepers Association launch the Certified Kentucky Honey Program. She manages a small apiary (200 hives) with her husband Douglass Potter in Lexington, KY.
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