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PictureRolla, Missouri -- Charlotte Ekker Wiggins in Bluebird Gardens, her one-acre limestone hillside apiary, Certified Wildlife Garden and Monarch Way Station.

NEWS, INTERVIEWS AND PODCASTS
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Charlotte visits with Gardenerd.com's Christy Wilhelmi on Beekeeping and Gardening Tips December 1, 2022

Best Vegetables to Grow Shared by 60 Gardening Bloggers  
November 23, 2022

How to bring more bees into our yards according to experts  November 8, 2022

Ten Tips for Planting for Pollinators  September 30, 2022

What is a Rain Garden and Should You Have One in Your Yard  September 8, 2022

Summer Reads May 25, 2022

Organic Gardener Podcast March 15, 2022

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MISSOURI BEEKEEPING INSTRUCTOR WINS PUBLISHING AWARDS

The 2022 Independent Press Award (IPA) recognized A Beekeeper’s Diary Self-Guide to Keeping Bees 2nd Edition by Charlotte Ekker Wiggins as a first place winner. A Beekeeper’s Diary Self-Guide to Keeping Bees was chosen as the best in the “How to” nonfiction category.

The book also won the 2022 ELit First Place Award in the Home and Garden Category.


Wiggins has been teaching beginning beekeeping classes since 2012, starting first at the request of her local Extension office. During those early annual beekeeping classes, she said she developed, and expanded, a diary that helped students with the decisions they have to make when they start keeping bees.
“It’s very exciting to take a beginning course and decide I think I can do this,” Wiggins said. “The reality hits once students get home and start asking themselves now what.”

The diary reinforces information new beekeepers receive in beginning beekeeping classes and guides them through the decisions they have to make to get started. If a new beekeeper can’t get to a beginning class, the diary will help fill that gap.

Wiggins has been a lifelong gardener and a beekeeper since 2010. A Certified Master Beekeeper and Master Gardener Emeritus, in 2019 she was selected for a TEDx lecture on “why bugs matter” based on her one-acre limestone hillside garden and apiary. 

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