Beekeeping in Northern Climates Short Course

This course is for beginning beekeepers. If you have kept bees before, please enroll in the April 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!

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.

Learn about:

Introduction to Bees and 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

Agenda

Saturday, March 2, 2013
8:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.		Class (lunch provided) see topics above
4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.		Honey Tasting and Beekeeping Demonstrations
5:30 p.m.		Adjourn

Sunday, March 3, 2013
8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.		Class (lunch provided) see topics above

Fee includes:

Morning coffee and muffin, Lunch both days, Arboretum admission, parking, Manuals and gift shop discount.

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.

Beekeeping Short Course 2013

March 2 - 3, 2013

March 2rd
8:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
March 3th
8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Location

University of Minnesota Landscape Arboretum

Registration

Download Registration Form (PDF)

March 2013 class is filled. Register on line to get on a wait list. When the class will be held will depend on the number of people on the wait list. Those on the wait list get first notice of next class.

Register Online

$150, registrations prior to February 1, 2013
$170, registrations on or after February 1, 2013

Cancellations: Send cancellations to Gary S. Reuter, 1980 Folwell Ave. Room 219, St. Paul, MN 55108-6125, or by email.

Refund Policy: $130.00 will be refunded to participants who cancel in writing prior to March 1, 2013.