2024 Interior Alaska Beekeeping Workshop

When: March 2nd & 3rd, 2024

Time: 1:00PM - 6:00PM both days for a total of 10 hours

Venue: Monroe Catholic School; 615 Monroe Street; Fairbanks, AK 99701

Instructors: 

Dawn Cogan, M.Ed. Education Leadership; B.S. Communications Management

James & Lisa Harlow - Successful Wintering

Registration Link:

https://forms.office.com/r/hfbE0ZNUif

Syllabus: 

What is responsible beekeeping? How much honey will I harvest?

What is the start-up cost?

• Equipment necessary to keep bees in Alaska

• Biology and races of honeybees
• Members of the hive and their duties

• Colony Management techniques & tricks

• Where to obtain bee equipment. New, used or building your own equipment.

• Preparing equipment for the arrival of bees - Insulation, feeding bees properly

• What to do when the bees arrive
• Is my queen marked? (queen marking tool)

• Running 2-Queen Hives
• Swarming and how to prevent it
• Honeybee diseases
• Extracting your Alaska honey
• Wintering Honeybees 
• Storing your equipment
• Beeswax candle making, lip balm, and lotion bar manufacturing

Hands-on Projects:

1) Management of honeybee colonies in Alaska, The Beekeeper's Calendar

2) Constructing a hive in class

3) Colony Collaboration team exercise

Cost per family: $185.00

Includes your own copy of our Beekeeping Handout Book

Door prizes: 1 free package of live honeybees, miscellaneous beekeeping tools, a free consultation with Dawn Cogan, a free extraction tools rental

Registration Link:

https://forms.office.com/r/hfbE0ZNUif