What? Intensive beekeeping course. Learn skills including but not limited to:
- Keeping your bees alive through the year
- Increasing honey yields
- Harvesting honey
- Reading honeybee frames
- When and how to test for and control Varroa Mites and other diseases
- Making strong splits
- Successfully re-queening hives (naturally and with purchased queens)
- Installing package bees/nucleus hives
- Swarm capture
Where?
TBD
When?
All dates have In-Hive instruction, some also have a more structured lecture before the In-Hive portion
- May 17
- June 28
- August 2
- September 13
- October 25
Why?
- Beekeeping, like many hobbies, can be an expensive endeavor.
- Learn best practices to protect your beekeeping investment
- Brad Scoggins has been able to keep his hives alive throughout the year with a greater than 90% survival rate most years, the national average for beekeeping is around 50%
What’s included?
- Regularly scheduled lectures on various topics applicable to the season
- Regular, hands-on access to working hives
- Access to local and experienced beekeepers, for direct beekeeping instruction during class dates
- Mentoring for your personal hives (via phone/text)
- Access to topic-specific video library
- “Hive concierge” service within the Farmington/Aztec/Bloomfield area (includes two visits)
What will you need?
- Bee suit or jacket – recommendations here: Mann Lake Bee Suits
- Hive Tool – recommendations here: Mann Lake Hive Tools
- Smoker – recommendations here: Mann Lake Smokers
- Gloves – recommendations here: Mann Lake Gloves