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Garden Variety, hosted by Charity Nebbe
Garden Variety

Bees are reveling in fall pollen

By Charity Nebbe,
Aaron Steil, Katherine Perkins
Published September 2, 2022 at 4:00 PM CDT
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Garden Variety, hosted by Charity Nebbe

If you’ve made a point of planting flowering plants and trees in your landscape you’re supporting native pollinators, but you may also be helping out honeybees and their keepers. Randall Cass, ISU Extension bee specialist, talks about what bees and beekeepers are up to this time of year, and why fall pollen is so important to keeping bees through the winter.

Guests:

  • Randall Cass, ISU Extension bee specialist
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Charity Nebbe
Charity Nebbe is IPR's 'Talk of Iowa' host. She also hosts IPR's podcasts 'Garden Variety' and 'Unsettled'. Since 2010, Nebbe has interviewed, conversed with, and shared ideas from guests of all backgrounds and locations, and has helped listeners better understand, appreciate, and explore their state and the world around them. Nebbe has a bachelors degree from Iowa State University.
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Aaron Steil
Aaron Steil is a Consumer Horticulture Specialist with ISU Extension and Outreach. Aaron contributes his expertise to the Garden Variety podcast and newsletter and to Talk of Iowa's Horticulture Day program.
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Katherine Perkins
Katherine Perkins is IPR's Executive Producer of Talk Shows and Program Director for News/Talk. Since 2014, Perkins has managed the broadcast schedule and sound of the news and information service of Iowa Public Radio, as well as has directed the long-term planning and oversight for IPR's talk shows, Talk of Iowa and River to River. Perkins has a masters degree from Sangamon State University (now the University of Illinois – Springfield).
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