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​About Charlotte​

Charlotte Ekker Wiggins has been gardening ever since she can remember. She has kept honey bees since 2010 and managed an educational non-profit bee club since 2014.

She is the author of "Bee Club Basics, How to Run a Bee Club." Her second book "A Beekeeper's Diary, Self-Guide to Beekeeping" will be out Winter  2020.

  • Elected January 2020 to Missourians for Monarchs Collaborative Steering Committee.
  • Missouri State Beekeeping Association's (MSBA) partnership liaison.
  • MSBA's Great Plains Master Beekeeping Task Force.
  • Charlotte's Beginning Beekeeping Classes January and February 2020, as well as her books, are Great Plains Master Beekeeping program approved towards master beekeeper certification.
  • Steering committee member and contributing author Missouri's Master Pollinator Steward program.
  •  TEDx Missouri S&T April 11, 2019  Beekeeping: Why Bugs Matter.
  • Heartland Apicultural Society's July 11-13, 2018 17th annual beekeeping conference public relations chair at Washington University in St. Louis.
  • Slow Food USA delegate to the 2016 Terra Madre world conference in Turin, Italy. 7,000 delegates from 141 countries met to discuss how to grow healthy, local food sustainably and protect the world's remaining biodiversity.​​
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KIRKSVILLE Mo. - Charlotte Ekker Wiggins, left, 2015 Missouri Beekeeper of the Year, with other Missouri Beekeepers of the Year honored during Missouri State Beekeepers Association Oct. 19-20, 2018 fall conference.
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  • Retired from USDA Forest Service in 2015 after a 30-year public affairs career.
  • Also in 2015, Charlotte was MSBA Beekeeper of the Year for helping to change Missouri's honey labelling laws.​​
  • Charlotte started Rolla Bee Club in 2014 to support students from her annual beginning beekeeping classes. The club became a 501(c)(3) Missouri educational non-profit summer of 2018.
  • In 2009, Charlotte retired from a 21-year award-winning public affairs career with US Navy.​​
  • She served as an elected Rolla City Council member 1999-2007.
  • In 1998, she pioneered Bluebird Gardens, a custom online gift business based on her Missouri garden.

Charlotte's Education 

  • ​​​Master's degree Webster University
  •  University of Missouri advanced master gardener
  • 2014 Lincoln University beekeeper instructor training.

​Charlotte's other associations include

  • ​Garden Communicators International; Sisters in Crime; Mo. Writers Guild; Mo. Master Gardeners Association; Mo. State Beekeepers Association; Mo. Botanical Garden; Eastern Mo. Beekeepers Association; Three Rivers Beekeepers, Arts Rolla.
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