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Beekeeping School 2020 - Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture

Beekeeping School 2020 - Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture
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Thank you for your interest in Beekeeping School 2020

This is 9th year we are having Beekeeping School.  The school consists of a series of 16 two to two and a half hour long classes. The school is intended to help beginning beekeepers develop basic beekeeping skills. 

Participants will follow the establishment and development of colonies of honey bees over the course of one growing season beginning in March and ending in October.  The classes are held ever two or three weeks throughout the summer.  Each class consists of an hour-long lecture followed by an hour and a half of practical hands-on training.  

The school is being co-sponsored by the Greenwich Audubon Center, Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture, Bedford Bee Honeybee Service, and the Melisseus Honeybee Research and Education Initiative.

In an attempt to accommodate both weekend/midweek and daytime/evening schedules we will hold two series of classes.  The first will be Tuesdays from 6:00PM to 8:30PM at the Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture in Pocantico Hills, NY.  The second will be on Sundays from 9:00AM to 11:30AM at the Greenwich Audubon Center in Greenwich, CT. Most weeks the Greenwich Audubon class will be held first and the Stone Barns class will be held the following Tuesday

Three of the classes are combined at the Greenwich Audubon Center.  Weeks marked with an asterisk in the schedule below are combined.  Click here for a complete schedule for both locations and additional information at the location.

Participants should select their preferred day - Sunday or Tuesday - and enroll in that series.  But to accommodate scheduling conflicts that may occur throughout the summer, students will be allowed to attend classes in either series.  The exact same material will be presented at both sites. This is the enrollment site for the Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture on Tuesdays.  There is a separate Eventbrite enrollment page for the Greenwich Audobon Center.  The class will be limited to 20 people at each location.

The first day we will be meeting at the Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture is March 31, 2020 at 6:00 PM.  Upon registering you will receive an email with information about where to go and what to bring, etc.  If not all of the 20 available spots are filled by March 31, we will allow late enrollment up until the Honey Bee Life Cycle class on May 5th.  After that enrollment will be closed until next year.

The class will be co-taught by Maggie Schwed, beekeeper at the Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture and D. J. Haverkamp, owner of Bedford Bee Honeybee Service.

Basic safety equipment (gloves, smoker, bee jacket, etc) are provided.  Each participant will be required to sign a liability waiver and volunteer agreement.  We will be working with live honey bees as a part of each of the workshops - there is a very real possibility of being stung at some point during the summer.  Participants take full responsibility for any allergic reaction which may result.

The classes have been refined and improved each of the past eight years.  This year we will offer two bonus sessions - one on the afternoon of Easter 4/12 and one on the afternoon of Mother's Day 5/10. 

We believe the hands-on on nature of this school makes it one of the best learning experiences possible for anyone interested in learning the skill of beekeeping.   

For further information please contact D. J. Haverkamp at 914-525-1990 or Maggie Schwed at 917-957-6035

Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture schedule

  • 3/31          Intro / Safety – Beekeeping overview                                 
  • 4/7            Equipment / Types of hives                                                    
  • 4/12          Equipment building (optional afternoon meeting)                                           
  • 4/21          Beekeeping resources / Package installation           
  • 4/28          Package installation demo                              
  • 5/5            Honey bee life cycle                                               
  • 5/10          Review /                                     
  • 5/19          Honey bee reproduction / Swarm control & capture    
  • 6/2            Honey bee diseases                                                 
  • 6/16          Colony manipulations, splits, & requeening  
  • 6/30          Colony collapse disorder / Varroa Part 1               
  • 7/12 *       Honey & honey harvesting  (Joint class)                                        
  • 7/21          Varroa mite Part 2                                                                        
  • 8/11          Small hive beetle / Make-up session                                    
  • 8/23 *       Dealing w/ mean bees / Stings  (Joint class)                                            
  • 9/15          Honeybee nutrition / feeding                                                 
  • 10/4 *       Wax moth / wax  (Joint class)                                                                       
  • 10/13        Moving hives / winter preparation    

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