Beekeeping 401: Beekeeper for a day! May 10th

We have an awesome opportunity for 16 people join us for a day beekeeping!

Many beginning beekeepers spend a lot of time with their bees, bur rarely get to see a great variety of colonies. During this session we will visit different colonies and focus on how to assess and manage a colony quickly. With many colonies, this will provide ample opportunity to see how variable each colony is.

We will have two sessions that will both focus on swarm management and increasing colony sizes. Most specifically, we will manage the new packages and nucs that were recently installed. If you got new bees this year and want to know how to interpret and care for your bees, this is the session that will be very helpful.

The cost of this class will be $50 per session.

We will meet at the store (28634 Maple Valley Black Diamond Rd SE, Black Diamond WA 98035, check in time for the first group will be 9:30 and 1:00 for the second group.  You will need to bring the following:

You may also be required to lift heavy bee boxes.

We will provide the rest of the tools that are needed, smokers etc,

We only have room for 8 people per sessions, so if you’d like to join us please stop by the store a soon as possible to sign up.