Flower Power: Establishing Pollinator Habitats

Join us at the Pikeville Farmer’s Market pavillion for a special guest speaker, Dr. Tamara Horn Potter presenting her book Flower Power: Establishing Pollinator Habitat.

Dr. Tamara Horn Potter is an author and apiarist. From 2008-2014, she worked at EKU and with coal companies to get pollinator habitat established as a best management practice for reclamation. From 2014-2024, she served as the KY Dept. of Agriculture State Apiarist, working with the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet and Columbia Gas to get pollinator habitat established on highway rights-of-ways. She joined KY State University Land Grant Program as Beginner Beekeeper Coordinator in 2024.

She and her husband, Doug, manage honey bees at five apiaries in the Bluegrass, and she’s served on more nonprofit beekeeping boards than anyone should have a right to. Dr. Potter currently served in Kentucky State University Land Grant Program, and is the author of Bees in America: How the Honey Bee Shaped a Nation (UP of KY, 2005), Beeconomy: What Women and Bees Teach us About Local Trade and Global Economics (UP of KY, 2012); and Flower Power: Establishing Pollinator Habitat (Wicwas P, 2019).

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