Ian Steppler is a Canadian beekeeper who breeds his own line of bees. Ian has unique cell raising and mating nuc styles that are well suited to short season commercial beekeeping. In this episode Ian goes into his cell raising process and mating nucs as well as explaining why he raises his own queens. Ian has a YouTube channel called A Canadian Beekeeper’s Blog. In this episode we discuss a lot of the things that you can see in this video - Small Scale Commercial Queen Rearing

You can follow Ian’s work on his YouTube Channel or on his website - https://www.stepplerfarms.com/ 

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Podcast proudly brought to you by Brent Nixon at Nixon Queen Bees 

00:00 Intro

2:18 Bringing in breeding stock 

5:30 When Ian started raising his own stock

8:30 Cell builders 

21:00 Mating nucs 

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