I've had some requests to post the Honey Flow Calendar slide that didn't print clearly in my Beginners presentations. Here it is; Honey Flow Slide
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Spring Meeting – West Kootenays Beekeepers
The Spring meeting of the West Kootenay Beekeepers (the West Kootenay Division of the BC Honey Producers Association) will be Sunday, March 1st at Selkirk College's Castlegar campus. The meeting runs from 12 noon to 4:00, preceded by a meet & greet bag lunch in the cafeteria from 11:00. Bring your own food & drink;… Continue reading Spring Meeting – West Kootenays Beekeepers
Beekeepers’ Gathering this Sunday, Feb. 1
The next Beekeepers' gathering is this coming Sunday, February 1, from 1 to 3 in the afternoon at Flying Leap Farm. If you're new to beekeeping, it's a great chance to find out what to start with, where to get your bees, upcoming classes and so on. If you're already into it, there will be… Continue reading Beekeepers’ Gathering this Sunday, Feb. 1
East Kootenay Beginners Courses
I was talking with Lance Cuthill and he mentioned that he will be teaching 2 Beekeeping for Beginners courses this spring. The first will be in Cranbrook the weekend of Feb 28 - Mar 1. The second will be the following weekend Mar 7 - 8 in Creston. If you want more information about either… Continue reading East Kootenay Beginners Courses
Beekeeping for Beginners Courses (West Kootenay)
Selkirk College has again asked me to offer beginners beekeeping courses. The Castlegar course will run again as it did last year with 2 introductory classroom sessions and then an ongoing series of 6 field days with Nette Lack at Mad Dog Farm in Tarrys. The 2 courses in Grand Forks and Nakusp did not… Continue reading Beekeeping for Beginners Courses (West Kootenay)
Werner Gysi’s “Sustainable Mite Control”
You can find Werner Gysi's video on how to create a brood break to control mites on YouTube. It is not the most professional production but shows the frame manipulations. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lY6JhtfPF4w The Gooly Mooly Publishing site where you can find his Harmonic Beekeeping and Farming books is: http://goolymooly.ca/data/publishing/about_werner.html
Beekeeping for Beginners
From the Kootenay Local Agricultural Society in conjunction with Mad Dog Farm, a series of beekeeping classes designed to take the novice beekeeper through their first year of beekeeping. Starting in the class room with an intense one day seminar on everything bees, the course group then meets once a month for a field day… Continue reading Beekeeping for Beginners
Beekeeping: An Introduction
Join Regional Bee Inspector, Axel Krause, for an in depth look at beekeeping for beginners. Course is administrated by the Continuing Education department of Selkirk College. For more information see this page or contact the CE department at 250-365-1208 to register.
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