2025 Interior Alaska Beekeeping Workshop

Dawn Cogan's 2025 Beekeeping Workshop 

• March 15 & 16, 2025
• 1-6 pm both days for a total of 10 hours
• Venue: Monroe Catholic School
• 615 Monroe Street, Fairbanks, Alaska 99701

SYLLABUS:

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

What is the start-up cost as a first-year beekeeper?

• 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 game)

Used, disease-free equipment will be available for sale this year!

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/ZaH31fuu9T

Payment Link: https://square.link/u/vfp1t92G

Find Interior Alaska fellow beekeepers on Facebook: Alaskan Extreme North Beekeepers