Summer 2019 Honeybee Shipment & Beekeeping Workshop

The 2018 beekeeping season was awesome! When this happens it means a perfect balance occurred between weather, colony management, and honeybee health. I am teaming up once again with Dale Lupton to bring quality honeybees into Fairbanks this spring. The price will be near the same co-op price as last year with a slight increase. We will have a final price by the middle of January.

I hope to have a co-op meeting the end of January and my one and only bee workshop this year will be March 2nd & 3rd, 2019. See syllabus below:

Science-Based Art of Alaska, LLC

Instructor: Dawn Cogan 

To register, email Dawn at sciencebasedart@yahoo.com

When:
March 2nd and 3rd 2019
1-5 PM each day for a total of 8 hours

Where:
Monroe Catholic School 615 Monroe Street, Fairbanks, AK 99701

Cost: $150.00 per family

Syllabus:

Students will receive a book with hand-outs to keep. Door prizes include brand new beekeeping tools.

• What is beekeeping? How much honey will I get? How much will this all cost me?

• Equipment necessary to keep bees in Alaska
• Biology and races of honeybees
• Members of the hive and their duties
• Where can I get bee equipment? Should I get new, used or build my own?
• Getting equipment ready for the arrival of bees

Hands-on Project: Construct a beehive in class

• Insulation, feeding bees properly
• What to do when the bees arrive
• Is my queen marked? (queen marking tool)
• Management of honeybee colonies in Alaska, The Beekeeper's Calendar
• Running 2-Queen Hives
• Swarming and how to prevent it
• Honeybee diseases
• Extracting your Alaska honey
• What to do at the end of the season/wintering over
• Storing your equipment
• Beeswax candle making