#121: Adam Novicki & Therese McLaughlin - Drop Your Career, Start Beekeeping
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Episode Description
Pollination, the byproduct of beekeeping, is essential to food sustainability and our overall health. After having spent a long time in the service industry, Adam Novicki grew to have an interest in beekeeping after his wife, Therese McLaughlin, introduced him to it. Transitioning from the nervous husband watching Therese work with bees from the window, Adam’s career has now changed completely to work with bees. Starting at T&A Farms in 2009, Therese and Adam have now grown the company extensively all while being self-taught. Showing us the impact that turning a passion into a career can have on not only the founder, but those around them, Therese and Adam are truly an inspiration that lets us know that we should not be scared to follow our own dreams. As Therese mentions in the episode, “if we can do it, you can too.”
Show Notes:
(00:44) - Stumbling into beekeeping
(03:41) - Learning how to keep bees
(05:42) - Transitioning jobs
(06:22) - Going to grad school to learn about bees
(09:08) - Adam joins AgPollen LLC
(15:29) - Current state of bees
(19:16) - Transition to UC Riverside
(21:51) - Starting T&A Farms
(32:02) - Effects of the pandemic
(35:26) - Advice to past self and others
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