Foodie Fridays: The Bee’s Knees

Foodie Fridays: The Bee’s Knees

Buzzzz! This event will feature Phil Frank, a member of the Montgomery County Beekeepers Association. The talk will focus on honey bees’ role in food production, the kinds of foods we’d miss out on without honey bees, and exactly what it is morphologically and behaviorally that makes bee pollination irreplaceable.

Phil Frank – Beekeeper, Montgomery County Beekeepers Association

Phil Frank, co-author of Hive Tour: The Insider’s Guide to Honey Bees, is a science journalist and TV producer, writer, and director of non-fiction films. His programs have been seen on CNN, Discovery Channel, National Geographic Channel, Science Channel, A&E, Travel Channel, Headline News, History Channel, TLC, NYTimes website, Washington Post website, and international channels. While producing a National Geographic program about mass animal die-offs, Phil became fascinated by honey bees. In 2014, he started his first hive. Now he has 15 hives on his deck, and one glass walled hive in his kitchen (link to video) where he studies busy bees year round. Phil developed and runs websites for the Maryland State Beekeepers Association and Maryland’s Montgomery County Beekeepers Association. He designs beekeeping curricula and teaches honey bee biology for beekeepers.

This event will be held at Josiah Henson Museum and Park