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This two day course provides all the information necessary to keep bees in cold climates. We take you through two years of beekeeping; purchasing and assembling equipment, ordering bees and queens, hiving packages, ensuring colony survival through winter, dividing colonies in the spring, and producing, harvesting, extracting, bottling, and selling honey. We also cover the important basics of disease and mite management and control, emphasizing a reduction in chemical use within bee hives.
This course is for beginning beekeepers only. If you have kept bees before, please enroll in the April 3 course. We have had to turn a number of people away in recent years due to over-enrollment. Please, give our newbees the opportunity to register! We need more beekeepers!
Beekeeping Short Course 2010
March 13-14, 2010
St. Paul, Minnesota
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Learn about:
- Introduction to Bees & Beekeeping
- Equipment Assembly
- Selecting an Apiary Site
- Bee Races and Breeds
- Disease and Pest Management
- Hiving Packages
- Spring Management
- Summer Management
- Making Divisions
- Preparing Colonies for Winter
- Producing a Honey Crop
- Honey tasting
- Honey: From Colony to Customer:
- Extracting
- Bottling
- Selling
- Storing
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Agenda
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Saturday, March 13, 2010 |
| 8:30 am - 4:00 pm |
Class (lunch provided)
see topics above |
| 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm |
Honey Tasting and Beekeeping Demonstrations |
| 5:30 pm |
Adjourn |
| Sunday, March 14, 2010 |
| 8:00 am - 5:00 pm |
Class (lunch is on your own)
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Instructors
Marla Spivak, Professor, Department of Entomology, University of Minnesota
Gary Reuter, Scientist, Department of Entomology, University of Minnesota
Guest Speakers from the Minnesota Hobby Beekeeper's Association, the Minnesota Department of Agriculture and from other areas of the beekeeping industry.
Registration
Register Online
Download Registration form (pdf)
$125, registrations prior to February 9, 2010
$140, registrations on or after February 9, 2010
Cancellations: Send cancellations to Gary S. Reuter, 1980 Folwell Ave. Room 219, St. Paul, MN 55108-6125, or by email.
Refunds Policy: $100.00 will be refunded to participants who cancel in writing prior to March 12, 2010.
Other Information
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