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Naked & Afraid Beekeeping
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In this fun episode of Bee Love Beekeeping, host Eric Bennett sits down with Tara Skubella and Darrin Reay — survivalists best known from Discovery Channel's Naked and Afraid — to talk all things honey bees and beekeeping.
The duo shares their passion project: a custom apitherapy bee hut built atop four Langstroth hives, where visitors breathe healing pheromones and soak up therapeutic vibrations without a single sting.
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Darren, a fabricator-turned-beekeeper with 13 hives and three consecutive winters of zero colony loss, also breaks down his smart insulation strategy — R40 on the lid, R10 on the walls — mimicking how wild bees survive in hollow trees and cliff crevices.
Tara balances Darrin's nuts-and-bolts beekeeping approach by describing herself as a "bee alchemist" who leads breathwork retreats inside the hut and helps guests build genuine relationships with their colonies.
Throw in Darrin's chaotic story of catching a swarm from atop a truck bed with a stepladder, Tara's near-miss with Africanized killer bees in Panama, and a beekeeper who runs a queen retirement home, and you've got one of the most entertaining beekeeping conversations you'll hear all year.
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