If you’re interested in starting a honey festival in your city, you have to speak with Steve Rogenstein who founded the Ambeesadors. A former event manager, he fell in love with bees and has used his unique skills to organize honey festivals in both New York City and Barcelona.  Currently he lives in Berlin, Germany.

Steve is also involved with the COLOSS Survivor Taskforce, coordinating the citizen science project Honey Bee Watch. This project seeks to connect beekeepers, bee enthusiasts and scientists in identifying feral and wild honey bee colonies to help preserve their genetics and learn more about their survival traits.

In this episode of Beekeeping Today Podcast, Steve sat down with guest host Kirsten Traynor to talk about unique honey profiles, the hoarding tendency of honey lovers, and what it takes to organize a giant citizen science project.

Listen today!

Additional information:

• The Ambeessadors - https://www.ambeessadors.com
• The Honey Bee Watch - https://www.honeybeewatch.com
• The College of Melissae - https://www.collegeofthemelissae.com
• Learning From The Bees, Berlin - https://www.learningfromthebeesberlin.com
• BCN Honey Festival - https://www.bcnhoneyfest.com
• NYC Honey Week - http://nychoneyweek.org
• North American Pollinator Protection Campaign (NAPPC) - https://www.pollinator.org/nappc
• 4th International Bee and Hive Monitoring Conference - https://colonymonitoring.com/events/

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