- Our food wouldn't be the kind of food that we eat if we didn't have a honeybee.

Most, all the good things in life that we eat are pollinated.

All of the berries that we eat, the nuts, our oil crops, all of our fruit trees, about anything that contains- squash, fruit, melons, peas, onions.

I think that bees are just an unseen, most important part of our existence, because if we don't have a food source, we don't have energy.

We can't do our jobs.

Life just doesn't go on without it.

I got into beekeeping because I was a gardener and I read that the bees were having a hard time and I thought, well, I'll get a hive and put it in my garden and then they can pollinate.

I said, okay, I'll get two hives.

And then I went to a garage sale just by chance and happened on a retiring beekeeper and I bought six hives.

At first, I thought I was going to help the bees, but I realized that the bees helped me.

They, they slow me down.

They are teaching me about science all the time, making me curious to learn more about them.

There are 2.7 million bee colonies in the United States, and they're responsible for 80% of pollination.

That's pretty amazing.

And to pollinate the almonds takes 1.8 million of those colonies.

And that's a $2.3 billion crop.

That is phenomenal.

This has got the remnants of pollen patties and dry sugar that they've been chomping through.

I got started in a big way and I haven't looked back.

I've had as many as 2,400 hives.

When we talk about bees is the fact that they make honey and the fact that they sting, but there's so much more to them.

You have three meals a day.

One of them wouldn't be there, if there weren't bees.

Every third bite that we have is there because a bee pollinated it.

If we didn't have bees, we wouldn't have the great diets that we have.

We'd be eating wind pollinated crops, which are like wheat and corn and rice.

It'd be really, really boring.

When a plant is growing, one of the things that it does is to put out a flower and that flower is only going to turn into food if a bee lands on it.

The bee lands on that flower and there's pollen, which is the orange fuzzy stuff that actually the bee collects and puts in little pockets on its back legs.

And it takes it home to feed it to the baby bees.

But it also goes to another flower and leaves some of that pollen.

And if both flowers give each other pollen, then it's going to make a fruit or a vegetable or whatever it is that you want to eat.

It's important to realize how important they are to us.

It's taught me to really stop and smell the roses, so to speak.

To look at things that are growing to look at nature and just really appreciate it.

We are so busy in our society that we take this for granted.

The fact that they are responsible for our food source.

I think that's, that's probably what's lacking in the whole world is people don't have that feeling of being close to it.

Because I'm doing it, it's made me be closer to how it all got there.

I have way more appreciation for everything that it took to get it from there to my table.

Don't worry.

Be happy.