The Asheville Bee Charmer
Join Deborah Holt Noel as she learns all about bees and honey in the Asheville area.
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Best Kept Secrets in Asheville Asheville Bee Charmer
Bees are all the buzz in the first installment of Our State Magazine's Best Kept Secrets of the Appalachians series, featuring Asheville Bee Charmer!
In the heart of downtown Asheville, you can see for yourself — one step inside Asheville Bee Charmer on Battery Park Avenue, and you’re in honey heaven.
Honey in Asheville | NC Weekend | UNC-TV
Deborah Holt Noel visits multiple Asheville business that not only utilize honey in unique ways, but draw attention to the national decline in bee populations, earning Asheville the title of Bee City USA.
The Honey Hole
The Honey Hole in West Jefferson specializes in all things bee and honey related.
West Jefferson, NC
BHTV: Traditional and Urban Beekeeping in WNC
This commitment to creating more sustainable habitats for bees and other pollinators is echoed throughout Western North Carolina. From local beekeepers in the rural areas to urban gardeners in its cities, our community values its local environment and is working hard toward protecting it.
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Large rural spaces, small backyards, and even urban rooftops are being used for beekeeping in Western North Carolina. This region understands the important role pollinators play in our environment and provides many ways for members of the community to get involved.
“This area, for whatever reason, has attracted enough people that are really into beekeeping,” says Carl Chesick, local beekeeper and founder of the Center for Honeybee Research. “And we have probably more beekeepers per capita than just about anywhere else in the United States. So it's a great place to be, here in the mountains. I think the bees like it too.”
“The biggest problem is bees are dying and we don't know why,” says Chesick. “We just don't have the answers, but we'd like to get this to where bees can live on their own and be sustainable without help from humans. We are regenerating bee colonies aggressively to try to make up for the losses that we're having. That's why Asheville has no shortage of bees, but if everybody quit beekeeping, pretty soon there would be a shortage of bees here.”
“Bees will actually forage for three miles in all directions from their home colony,” says Chesick. “So they can get to plants, and that allows urban beekeeping to take place. You can have bees in the middle of a densely populated area. We have two hives on the Renaissance Hotel roof here in downtown Asheville. So far they're doing really well, and they fly through the entire bowl that is Asheville up on Beaucatcher and so on. And they're able to actually gather honey.”
“We do a bee school every year that sort of trains people that would like to get into beekeeping of what's involved and an introduction to bees,” says Chesick. “There's also in just about every county in North Carolina, there is a chapter of the North Carolina State Beekeeping Association, and they meet once a month generally. I believe it's still true that there are more members in North Carolina State Association than anywhere else in the United States, so we have more beekeepers per capita. Not largescale beekeepers, but more of the small, mom and pop operations. More people are involved with keeping bees.”
“Well, Asheville's the perfect place,” says Chesick. “We've got all the right people to be into bees. Bees are in trouble, so this is a great area because the people are committed to seeing that the bees are still with us.”
If you're interested in learning more about keeping bees or supporting our local beekeepers, visit the website for the Center for Honey Bee Research, ASAP, or BeeCityUSA.org. And for more information on the many ways to Live the Life You Choose in Western North Carolina, contact your Beverly-Hanks broker associates or visit beverly-hanks.com.
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We talk to Peter Pollay, Executive Chef and Owner of Posana Cafe in downtown Asheville, and Maggie Cramer, Communications Manager for ASAP.
3 Free Farm Stand Tours Guaranteed to be Fun for Foodies of All Ages [Interactive Maps]
With the plentiful number of farms in Western North Carolina, it is easy to theme a trip to local farm stands. Travel along the WNC Cheese Trail. Support your native pollinators by buying local honey.
What is Urban Homesteading and What am I Allowed to do in Asheville?
Even if you’re not a capital-H “homesteader,” you may be practicing one or several common homesteading practices. But just what is urban homesteading and what practices are allowed in Asheville?
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Pollination Celebration
ASHEVILLE, N.C. -- Asheville is buzzing with events for Pollination Celebration.
The goal of the celebration is to raise awareness of the importance of pollinators, like bees.
Local beekeepers say they are losing about a 40-percent of their hives, year-to-year.
They say inappropriate pesticide use, loss of natural habitat and parasites are some of the largest contributing factors.
Kim Allen, Asheville bee charmer, when all that comes together, you get somewhat of an explanation for colony collapse disorder, and what's really happening is quite alarming.
Monday from 5pm until 7:30pm, you can stop by the downtown Asheville Bee Charmer store to sample honey from around the world. The $10 fee benefits Bee City USA.
For a list of all events happening for Pollination Celebration, click here.
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Homegrown | NC State Works to Protect Billion Dollar Bees
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Dwindling honey bee colonies are a global concern - a $15 billion concern.
Far beyond the honey they produce, the bees help pollinate - or move pollen from one flower to another - more than 100 crops, providing an invaluable service to North Carolina's $84 billion agriculture industry. Busy bees, indeed.
Despite their role as an essential insect, the number of hives in the state has declined by over 40 percent since the mid-1980s, forcing many growers of bee-dependent crops, like apples, cucumbers, watermelon and strawberries, to rent hives to ensure proper pollination.
Let’s face it: No bees? No food.
In this episode of Homegrown, we join NC State Extension's apiculture specialist, David Tarpy, and NC State PhD students as they talk about the importance of the honey bee and what farms and homeowners can do to help this pollinator proliferate.
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Made in NC: Noble Cider
An Asheville cidery’s local-to-the-core hard cider spritzers won the top prize in the Drink category of the 2019 Made in NC Awards.
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“Georgia O’Keeffe: Living Modern” at Reynolda House Museum of American Art
The Reynolda House Museum of American Art hosts a major exhibition of Georgia O’Keeffe’s art and clothing.
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How I Think and Do: Leigh-Kathryn Bonner
Alumna Leigh-Kathryn Bonner (International Studies, '15) is the founder of Bee Downtown, a company that partners with businesses to help save honey bee populations. Hear how Leigh-Kathryn started her business while at NC State, and the boost she got from our Wolfpack across campus.
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Snake-Handling Pastor Bitten By Deadly Rattlesnake | MY LIFE INSIDE: THE SNAKE CHURCH
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A NEW documentary has captured the startling moment a controversial American pastor is bitten by a deadly snake during a service. Cody Coots is the pastor at the Full Gospel Tabernacle in Jesus’ Name church in Middlesboro, Kentucky - one of America’s only remaining snake-handling churches. The dangerous ritual had already cost the Pentecostal church its previous pastor, Cody’s father Jamie Coots, 42, after he was bitten by a rattlesnake and killed in 2014. And the shocking footage shows Cody Coots - his shirt splattered in blood - collapsing and being helped from his altar as the snake’s potentially lethal poison begins to take hold. The church’s story is told in My Life Inside: The Snake Church, the first film in a new series from Barcroft TV which gains unprecedented access to people who’ve chosen to live outside the norms of modern mainstream society.
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North Carolina | Wikipedia audio article
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North Carolina
00:01:15 1 History
00:10:56 1.1 Native Americans, lost colonies, and permanent settlement
00:15:04 1.2 Colonial period and Revolutionary War
00:21:04 1.3 Antebellum period
00:24:39 1.4 American Civil War
00:28:14 2 Geography
00:31:02 2.1 Flora and fauna
00:31:10 2.2 Climate
00:33:14 3 Demographics
00:33:57 3.1 Ethnicity
00:34:48 3.2 Languages
00:35:52 3.3 Religion
00:38:29 3.4 Most populous counties
00:38:54 3.5 Major cities
00:39:21 3.6 Largest combined statistical areas
00:40:10 4 Economy
00:43:15 5 Transportation
00:44:09 6 Government and politics
00:46:53 7 Education
00:47:02 7.1 Primary and secondary education
00:48:16 7.2 Colleges and universities
00:50:09 8 Media
00:50:17 9 Sports
00:53:27 10 Tourism
00:56:11 11 Recreation
00:57:51 12 Arts and culture
00:59:04 12.1 Music
01:02:48 12.2 Shopping
01:03:48 12.3 Cuisine and agriculture
01:08:05 12.4 Ships named for the state
01:08:43 12.5 State parks
01:09:02 12.6 State symbols
01:11:23 12.7 Armed forces installations
01:12:34 13 See also
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North Carolina ( (listen)) is a state in the southeastern region of the United States. It borders South Carolina and Georgia to the south, Tennessee to the west, Virginia to the north, and the Atlantic Ocean to the east. North Carolina is the 28th most extensive and the 9th most populous of the U.S. states. The state is divided into 100 counties. The capital is Raleigh, which along with Durham and Chapel Hill is home to the largest research park in the United States (Research Triangle Park). The most populous municipality is Charlotte, which is the second largest banking center in the United States after New York City.The state has a wide range of elevations, from sea level on the coast to 6,684 feet (2,037 m) at Mount Mitchell, the highest point in North America east of the Mississippi River. The climate of the coastal plains is strongly influenced by the Atlantic Ocean. Most of the state falls in the humid subtropical climate zone. More than 300 miles (500 km) from the coast, the western, mountainous part of the state has a subtropical highland climate.
In 2018, North Carolina was ranked number one on Forbes' Best States for Business ranking for a second year in a row.