Advanced Beekeeping (Online) January 21, 2023

Now that you have made it past your first year as a beekeeper or for those who have been keeping bees much longer. How did things go? If you are like me, I had many more questions after my first year. Did your bees survive? What can you learn from last year? What is your plan this next year? Here, we are all about learning from last year and doing better this coming year.

In this 3 hour advanced class we will be discussing what to expect this spring and learn how to manage your hive from swarming as it coming out of the winter. A few of the topics we will be discussing are.. Supplemental feeding in early spring, what we want the hive to look like by May, mite control and diseases and methods of treating. This is the time of year we need the hive to be healthy and grow quickly, since they are preparing…