Wendy has been a beekeeper since 2007.  She owned and operated Hardscrabble Honey, a modest sideline operation in central Ontario which averaged 1000 kgs of clean wildflower honey each year, and worked as the Honey Bee Health tech representative for NOD Apiary Products in Canada and the US.  She achieved her Journey Level Beekeeper certification from the University of Montana in 2015. As a social service worker (SSW) and adult educator, she taught community development, program design and portfolio development at Loyalist College in Belleville, Ontario, and enjoys sharing her passion for bees, education, environmental stewardship and program design with the CAMBP.