Arboreal Apiculture Salon

An Interactive Live Stream & Podcast

Exploring the science, beauty, and spiritual expression of Arboreal Apiculture & Apiology.

The Arboreal Apiculture Salon hopes to provide a forum for the emerging global arboreal apiculture community to connect, exchange ideas, and engage in symbiotic learning. It is part of a grassroots movement that explores new pathways of being and thinking in the Anthropocene. We believe in the importance of multidisciplinary collaboration and feature diverse speakers from various backgrounds, including entomologists, ecologists, activists, anthropologists, and conservationists.

We either have a live meeting with our guest speaker and audience or meet with the speaker in an interview-style setting. The audio recording is published afterward as a podcast. Listen to or chat with speakers from around the world and develop a deeper connection to Arboreal Apiculture & Apiology.

The Salon is a free event, serving communities around the globe. You can join a live Salon meeting by using this Zoom link. If you would like more info or have a suggestion for a topic/ speaker, please contact us.

Co-hosted by Cheyanna Bone, Jonathan Powell (Natural Beekeeping Trust), and Michael Joshin Thiele (Apis Arborea).

We created a Telegram Group as a forum to continue conversations beyond the live Salon events. It will provide a space to explore and share ideas and projects and will make it easier to organize locally. If you are interested, please feel free to use this link to join the Arboreal Apiculture Salon on Telegram.

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Listen To Previous Recordings

  • Salon No. 43 With Bas Blaasse
    by Natural Beekeeping Trust, Apis Arborea, Cheyanna Bone
    It was an honor to have Bas Blaasse as our guest at the Salon. He is a writer, researcher, and filmmaker based in Brussels. His work explores the intersections of art, visual culture, philosophy, and ecology-often tracing connections between aesthetic practices and the conceptual or material realities they engage with. Together with artist Aladin Borioli, […]
  • Salon No. 42 with Dr Keith Delaplane
    by Natural Beekeeping Trust & Apis Arborea
    It's an honor to have Dr. Keith S. Delaplane as our guest. Keith is Professor Emeritus of Entomology at the University of Georgia where he served as Director of the honey bee program there between 1990-2024. Research by Keith, his students, and coworkers resulted in hundreds of publications including over 70 refereed research papers, 7 […]
  • Salon No. 41 with Jovana Bila Dubaić – Citizen Science and the Belgrade bee
    by Natural Beekeeping Trus, Apis Aborea
    Jovana Bila Dubaić is a  Doctor of Environmental Sciences at the Faculty of Biology, University of Belgrade. Her scientific field covers biodiversity protection and invasive species ecology.  Her PhD thesis topic covered "Diversity of the Wild Bees in Belgrade: faunistic overview, patterns of distribution and status assessment of the chosen group population". More about the […]
  • Salon No.40 With Maggie Shanahan, PhD & Héctor Morales Urbina MSc
    by Natural Beekeeping Trust and Apis Arborea
    We were honoured to welcome Héctor Morales Urbina and Maggie Shanahan as our guests to Salon #40. They both are beekeepers and bee researchers from Chiapas, Mexico and the United States, respectively. Maggie shares some broad context around beekeeping in Chiapas and compare and contrast beekeeping systems in the U.S. and Mexico.  Héctor talks about […]
  • Salon No. 39 With Kaylin Kleckner – Bee-lining in the Bush
    by Natural Beekeeping Trust and Apis Aborea
    Kaylin Kleckner is a PhD Candidate at the University of Florida Honey Bee Research and Extension Laboratory. Through collaboration with Rhodes University, Kaylin conducts field research with wild and unmanaged honey bees in the Eastern Cape, South Africa. She used beelining techniques to locate 130 nest sites to study nesting ecology, population structure, and disease […]
  • Salon No. 36.5 (Brasil Português) Com Felipe Mendes – Colmeias de toras no Brasil e São Tomé e Príncipe
    by Natural Beekeeping Trust and Apis Arborea
    Neste podcast, conversamos com Felipe Mendes, do Brasil. Felipe é um apicultor e consultor arbóreo e biodinâmico, pioneiro em abordagens inovadoras de manejo animal por meio do uso de TreeNests (colmeias em toras). Ele trabalha com híbridos de Apis mellifera scutellata (abelhas africanizadas) e colaborou com o Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (MST) no […]
  • Salon No. 38 With Susan Murphy – How Zen Koans can help us approach Apiculture
    by Natural Beekeeping Trust and Apis Arborea
    In this Salon we are joined by  Dr Susan Murphy Roshi from Australia. Susan is a distinguished Zen teacher with a profound interest in the intersection of Zen practice and indigenous Australian concepts of 'care for country'. For 25 years, she co-led walks in Country with the late, highly respected indigenous Elder, Dulumunmun, Uncle Max […]
  • Salon No. 37 With Dylan Ryals – Where Wild Things Are
    by Natural Beekeeping Trust and Apis Arborea
    Dylan Ryals is a life-long beekeeper with experience working on commercial pollination and queen-rearing apiaries. He is currently a PhD student under Dr. Brock Harpur at Purdue University where he studies honey bee genetics and breeding. He will speak on his ongoing research uncovering bee ancestry, genetic diversity, and population structure across the United States […]
  • Salon No. 36 With Felipe Mendes – Log hives in Brazil and São Tomé and Príncipe
    by Natural Beekeeping Trust and Apis Arborea
    In this podcast, we spoke with Felipe Mendes from Brazil. Felipe is an arboreal and biodynamic beekeeper and consultant, pioneering innovative approaches to animal stewardship through the use of TreeNests (log hives). He works with Apis mellifera scutellata hybrids (Africanized bees) and has collaborated with the Landless Workers' Movement (Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra […]
  • Salon No. 35 With Dr. Jamie Ellis – Do Bee Colonies work together as Super Colonies?
    by Natural Beekeeping Trust and Apis Arborea
    Dr. Ellis is the Gahan Endowed Professor of Entomology in the Entomology and Nematology Department at the University of Florida. At the University of Florida, Dr. Ellis has responsibilities in extension, instruction and research related to honey bees. Regarding his extension work, Dr. Ellis created the UF/IFAS Bee Colleges and the UF/IFAS Master Beekeeper Program. […]
  • Salon No. 34 With Ollie Visick – Wild Honey Bees in Britain
    by Natural Beekeeping trust and Apis Arborea
    It is on honor to have Ollie Visick from the University of Sussex, UK, as our guest at the Salon. Ollie Visick is a fourth-year PhD student at the University of Sussex, UK, studying wild honey bee colonies under the supervision of Professor Francis Ratnieks. His main areas of research are wild colony density and […]
  • Salon No. 33 With Fred Pearce – The New Wild
    by Apis Arborea & Natural Beekeeping Trust
    In this epidsode we are joined by Fred Pearce, author of The New Wild – Why Invasive Species will be Nature's Salvation,  Economists book of the year 2015. Fred is an award-winning author and journalist based in London. He has reported on environmental, science, and development issues from eighty-five countries over the past twenty years. […]
  • Salon No. 32 With Peter Neumann
    by Natural Bee Keeping Trust and Apis Arborea
    In this podcast we are joined by Prof. Peter Neumann, the Vinetum professor of the Institute of Bee Health at the University of Bern. His reaserach covers all aspects of all aspects of bee health with focus on behavioural, evolutionary and molecular ecology of honey bees and their pathogens. Peter has been the adjunct Professor, […]
  • Salon No. 31 With Derek Mitchell
    by Natural Beekeeping Trust & Apis Arborea
    In this podcast we learn that through math(s) we can prove that some of our long held beliefs about honeybees are wrong. Derek Mitchell researches into the heat transfer of man-made and natural honeybee nests at the School of Mechanical Engineering of the University of Leeds where he has recently completed his Phd with a […]
  • Salon No. 30 Beelining with the experts
    by Natural Beekeeping Trust and Apis Aborea
    Beelining is an ancient craft and science of finding wild honeybee trees/nests. The pursuit is old as humankind and has gained new relevance for the conservation and rewilding of honeybees.  In Salon 30 we bring together international practitioners of beelining  to share and explore current and innovative models of beelining. The panel includes Thomas Seeley […]
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