In 1955, my Mum pointed out, but said “stay away from the bee swarm” that had landed on a poplar tree in our backyard. I recall a beekeeper up a ladder in the cloud of smoke collecting them later, as we watched from a distance.

Always curious about animals, I caught snakes and turtles as a kid. Over the decades, I progressed into hobby farming poultry and pigs with my family. I bought my first colony of honeybees around 1990. The interest led to bee course work at Kwantlen University, U, Montana, UBC and has spawned a business of maintaining urban bee colonies around the Metro Vancouver area since 2005.

Scott grew up on a farm in Chilliwack BC and at an early age, became interested in honeybees. Scott was gifted his first hive from his mother in 1995 and his apiary has been growing ever since. After attending Okanagan U, Scott's interest in science led him to a position at Natural Factors, a research facility in Kelowna. It was working with the hives on the research farm where he learned the importance of bees to our environment and the many health benefits associated with honeybees. Since then he has made it his mission to support bees, educate and promote the beekeeping industry and the use of hive products.