Author: Melissa Rowland

Nucs vs. Packages: Common ways to start a bee colony and the pros and cons to both. Karen Palmer is owner of Honey Please bee farm which focuses on producing quality nucs and queens, bee removals, and other custom requests. Karen is “Queen bee” of around 300 colonies in Emanuel and Washington county. Former Regional Director for Georgia Beekeepers Association (GBA). Now studying native stingless honeybees in Central America where she has also worked with Africanized bees.

Janelle Dunlap is social practice artist and curator based in Metro Atlanta. As an encaustic painter and beekeeper, her art practice centers on sustaining healthy relationships between the human and animal worlds. Janelle is the inaugural Resident Beekeeper at Georgia Institute of Technology’s Urban Honeybee Project, where she is researching the healing properties of honeybee vibrational frequencies.