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Podcast: Honey Bee Obscura Podcast
Episode: Living With Your Smoker
Description: Beekeepers have a love/hate relationship with their smokers. Beekeeper families don't have split emotions… they tend HATE smokers and their lingering 'perfume'. How beekeepers manage their smokers impacts more than their bees. In today's episode, Kim and Jim talk about smokers. Arguably more so than a veil, the quintessential identifier of a beekeeper is a smoker. It is in the hand of every trope, every caricature of a beekeeper. In fact it is so emblematic, you can go into many antique shops and pay as much or more for an old, rotten, rusted smoker than you can...