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2 Million Blossoms - The Podcast

The podcast dedicated to protecting all pollinators, large and small!

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Sept. 17, 2024

How Pollinators Help Connect To Nature with Dr. Alister Clay (031)

In this episode, Kirsten sits down with Dr. Alister Clay, an engineer at Bosch with a fascinating journey into psychology and nature. Alister shares how his personal experiences led him to pursue a degree in psychology and f…
July 10, 2024

Anke Dietzsch: Effects of Pesticides on Native Bees and Honey Bees (030)

In this episode of 2 Million Blossoms, host Dr. Kirsten Traynor sits down with Dr. Anke Dietzsch from the Institute for Bee Protection at the Julius Kühn Institute, Germany's Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants. An…
May 29, 2024

Keeping Bees in Cameroon with Dr. Mazi Sanda (029)

In this episode, host Dr. Kirsten Traynor welcomes bee scientist Dr. Mazi Sanda from Cameroon. Dr. Sanda, who currently resides in Germany as part of the PLAN4BEE project, shares his journey into the world of bees, starting …

About the Host

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Kirsten Traynor

Director of the State Institute for Bee Research, University of Hohenheim

Dr. Kirsten S. Traynor is a honey bee biologist, who investigates how pesticides and varroa impact social behavior in honey bees. In January 2020 she launched a new quarterly magazine 2 Million Blossoms: protect our pollinators. The 100+ page print magazine is designed to inspire, inform and entertain. How did she end up so wild about pollinators?

In 2006-2007, Kirsten received a German Chancellor Fellowship. During that time she drove over 50,000 miles throughout Western Europe to study the differences between European & American beekeeping. Fascinated with the social complexity of a honey bee hive, she returned to school and earned her PhD in biology with Dr. Robert Page. While a grad student, she spent almost a year in Avignon, France in the lab of Dr. Yves Le Conte as a Fulbright Fellow.

She’s the former editor of Bee World and American Bee Journal, the author of Two Million Blossoms: Discovering the Medicinal Benefits of Honey and Simple, Smart Beekeeping. She previously managed a small apiary producing top quality nucs and Maryland reared queens.

From 2020 to 2021, she produced 8 issues of the beautiful magazine "2 Million Blossoms" under her company Protect our Pollinators, LLC. Copies are available for purchase through Betterbee. Although she stopped running the magazine and shut down her business to focus on bee research, she relaunched her podcast as a cooperation with Growing Planet Media in 2024 to share her insights on beekeeping and pollinators.