Meet our Bee Day 2019 Speakers
We are thrilled to have some fantastic presenters lined up for this year's event!
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Cathy MiskoKeynote SpeakerCathy Misko, Mama of 8, beekeeper 30 years, averages 20 colonies, and resides with her physician husband on their hobby farm, Dancing Bees Ranch, in Centerview, MO.
She is Missouri State Beekeepers Assn. Legislative Liaison, Secretary for the recently launched Johnson County MO Beekeepers Assn., Kansas City area's Past President of Midwestern Beekeepers Assn, Implemented and Chaired MBA Youth Scholarship Program, MBA and State Beekeeper of the Year Awards, and founded Heartland Beekeeping Partnership to bring advance beekeeping workshops and national speakers to the western side of the State. Known as the "Bee Lady… the older one", Cathy has a passion for education and teaches beekeeping workshops, public outreach presentations, and advance classes. She considered it a treat to have testified in Jefferson City for Missouri beekeepers to successfully pass the "Honey Bill / SB 500" and the "Honey Bee Bill / SB 627 via SB 472". |
Grant Gillard
Grant F. C. Gillard is a beekeeper and Presbyterian pastor. For twenty-five years, he lived in Jackson, Missouri, and kept around 200 hives selling his honey at three farmer’s markets. In 2018 he moved and relocated his hives to Holden, a small community on the far outskirts of Kansas City, a move placing him closer to family. He raises his own queens and has published several books on his experiences. Though semi-retired, he pastors the New Horizon Presbyterian Church in Odessa, MO.
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Jasmine Bass
Jasmine Bass is the current President of Bees Alive Club and a family herbalist who works from home helping others create healthy lifestyles for themselves. Her natural living spills over into her beekeeping methods as well. She has been an enthusiastic beekeeper from day one and enjoys educating and mentoring new beekeepers.
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Dan Barton
Dan Barton is a great mentor and the past president of the Bees Alive Club. As a third generation beekeeper, he brings over 30 years of beekeeping experience to the table with a passion for seeing new beekeepers become successful in their beekeeping ventures. Dan enjoys teaching beginner beekeeping classes in the Nixa area, setting new beekeepers up for success.
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David is the proud owner of P&D Honey Farm, established in 2008 and located in Fair Grove, MO. He and wife, Paula are members of local and State Beekeepers Associations and are proud to provide Pure Local Honey to Friends and Neighbors! P&D Honey Farm also prides itself in the care of Honeybees. Beekeeper David is happy to mentor new beekeepers to help the honeybee population which benefits area farmers and gardeners as well as Honey Lovers!
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Jeff is a wildlife ecologist with over 25 year's experience. He has been a professional beekeeper since 2008 and has been elected 3 times as President of the Beekeepers Association of the Ozarks. He also served as President of the East Central Indiana Beekeeper's Association. He has a degree in Wildlife management and Forestry. He has earned the rank of ISA Certified Arborist. He was a key founder of the Indiana Native Plant Society and served as the founding President. While working for The Nature Conservancy, his work focused on ecological restorations and nature preserve management. Owner and key contributor also toTheBeeRemover.com
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More info coming soon...
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Loretta KloskyMore info coming soon...
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Kathy McGowanMore info coming soon...
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Thomas PluthThomas is a retired Marine and owner of Purple Gate Farm in Highlandville, Missouri. Thomas has been keeping bees for 5 years and is interested in natural beekeeping methods. Purple Gate Farm has the only U-pick orchard in southwest Missouri and the Pluth’s strive to use organic methods in raising their livestock and produce
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Vickie GiesenMore info coming soon...
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Rick GiesenRick... Beekeeper / Brewer / Cook / Gardener… Rick has been beekeeping for 5 years, brewing beer, making wine and mead for 20 years, gardening for 10 years and cooking since he was tall enough to reach the stovetop. And those are just his hobbies. Rick is also an Inventory Control Specialist who doubles as a Limo Driver and works for a graphic arts design company.
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Lisa PluthLisa is Master Herbalist, lives at Purple Gate Farm in Highlandville where she and her family endeavor to live an organic, holistic, lifestyle and strive to be self-sufficient; caring for their animals and bees the same way they care for their fruit orchard and garden. As a 3rd generation herbalist, Lisa became a master herbalist and worked in an alternative health care clinic in Orlando, FL before moving to the Ozarks.
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