26. Holistic Edge Radio w Guest Nick Hoefly NYC Beekeeper Teaches How to Become a Beekeeper & Launch a Rooftop Honey Business Host: Enoe Aracely Brown, April 4, 2024

Send us Fan MailMeet Nick Hoefly,. a NYC beekeeper who started this interest as a hobby and now oversees 50 beehives across the city on rooftops to Greenwood Cemetery. He will speak about how he learned to work with honeybees, created his own retail honey business, and how he trains students to become beekeepers; how rooftop honeybees go hand-in--hand with green markets in NYC; how they hold honey tasting events across the world. He also tells us about bee nutrition, fighting disease, how we can help honeybees in the NYC, and how corporations, organizations and parks support the honeybee throughout the year. Guest Bio:Nick Hoefly is a veteran of the TV/Film industry, Nick found bees when he took up beekeeping as a hobby with a friend. The hobby grew and he eventually founded Astor Apiaries with his wife, Ashley. Astor Apiaries is now one of the leading apiaries in the New York City area. Since then his apiaries have grown to over 50 hives in multiple locations all over NYC. As part of his extensive work with bees he has developed several beekeeping classes, hive tours, a full beginner’s course, and a year-long urban beekeeping apprenticeship; and has trained many others to launch their own rooftop honey business. He is certified as a Master Beekeeper by the Dyce Lab for Honey Bee Studies at Cornell University and the Apiary Manager for The Bee Conservancy(TBC), developing and overseeing the beekeeping strategy at TBC Bee Sanctuaries across NYC. Nick is also recognized by the Italian National Register of Experts in the Sensory Analysis of Honey. He completed the very first and only class offered here in the US by the American Honey Tasting Society in 2019. Through his experience, Nick regularly holds honey tastings throughout the year. Furthermore, he’s personally curated the unique collection of honey varietals sold by Astor Apiaries in addition to his NYC Raw Honey. He has been interviewed by New York Times, The Today Show, Martha Stewart, and AM NY. Guest Contact:nycbeekeeper.com Support the showHost Contact Information:Enoe Aracely Brown:Email:  holisticedgeradio.gmail.comWebsite:  .