‍    Paul Lott has been around bees his whole life. In Florida, his father worked 200 colonies in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s. When Paul moved to North Carolina in 1998 he began to study honey bees and getting stung often. As he learned more about the bees, he became more fascinated with them. He has gone from two colonies up to forty or more on occasion. Typically, he cares for fifteen to thirty active colonies.

‍    Paul has dabbled in queen-rearing and placing pollination colonies for farmers. Lately, he has joined in the battle to just get bees through the winter and protect them from the Varroa Destructor and accompanying viruses using his medicinal mushroom preparations. It is Paul’s hope, God willing, to continue to study, learn, and perhaps assuming a teaching role as life moves forward.