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WASBA Beginning Beekeeper class fee
$ 50.00
Our next class is from March 4, 2024 – April 6, 2024
The purpose of the Beginning Beekeeping Course is to introduce people to the basics of what it means to be a hobbyist beekeeper before they decide to invest time, energy, and money in setting up an apiary (one or more hives). “WASBA”
This 5-week course is all online with weekly videos, reading assignments, tests, and a 1 1/2-hour Zoom meeting each Saturday at 10:30 am. The course fee is $50 which covers your materials, WASBA certificate, and a 1-year member in the Washington State Beekeeping Association. First Assignment will be emailed out March 4th and the first zoom meeting is March 9th.
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WASBA Apprentice Beekeeping class fee
Our next class is from January 15, 2024 – Febuary 17, 2024
The Apprentice Beekeeping Course is designed for the person who has had at least one year of hands-on beekeeping, has taken the Beginning Beekeeping class, and wants to know more about honey bees and beekeeping management practices. While the Beginning Beekeeping Course provides basic information for the person who is in the process of making up their mind or who has decided to start beekeeping, the Apprentice Course is for the person who wants to have more in-depth information.
This 5-week course is all online with weekly videos, reading assignments, tests, and a 1-hour Zoom meeting (depending of questions it could go a bit longer) each Saturday at 11:30 AM. The course fee is $60 which covers your materials, WASBA certificate, and a 1-year member in the Washington State Beekeeping Association.
The Fresh Honey Cookbook
Authors or Editors:
Laurey Masterton
Paperback: 208 pages
Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC; 1st. edition (September 10, 2013)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1612120512
ISBN-13: 978-1612120515
Product Dimensions: 7 x 0.7 x 9 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
Workshops
The Four Reason Colonies Die in the Winter
Hive management is essential to successfully maintaining healthy honey bee colonies, but with so many different things out there where do you start? Just when you think you’ve learned it all, heard it all, and seen it all, there is always something new. Commercialism (i.e., selling books, Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube) has added to this confusion.
Yet we continually use these things as our primary sources of information. The truth is, if you want to be a better beekeeper, listen to the bees, they tell us everything we need to know.
Every winter millions of honey bee colonies are lost because we are not listening to the bees. It has been well documented that the four major causes of honey bee colonies’ winter losses are mites, moisture or poor ventilation, not enough bees, and starvation. Yet, we keeping on doing the same things hoping for different results. The four causes of winter die-off can be greatly reduced if we simply follow these three rules:
- Keep the bees dry
- Keep the bees feed
- Keep the bees mite count low
By doing these things you will keep a strong and healthy hive. It is for this reason that we have decided to do workshops focusing on the four causes of winter die-off this year.
WORKSHOPS
Not Enough Bees – Making Bees
May 22, 2021 12:00 PM – 1:45 PM
2:00 PM – 3:45 PM
May 29, 2021 10:00 AM – 11:45 AM
12:00 PM – 1:45 PM
Each session will be followed by a question-answer time.
Splitting Hives
- Different types of splits
- How to split
- How to consolidate a weak hive with a strong one.
Queen Care
- How to spot a Queen
- How to set up a stand by Queen
- How to add a Queen to a hive
Catching and caring for Swarms
- How to prepare for a swarm
- Setting up a swarm trap
- How to grow a swarm
TBD
Mites – We will focus on Integrated Pest Management.
- Setting Mite Thresholds
- Using Mechanical and Non-Chemical controls
- Methods for treating for Mites
TBD
Starvation – Fall Preparation Using Supplemental Feed
- Combining weak hives
- Spin Honey and Queen excluders
- Treat For mites
TBD
Moisture – Preparing the Hive for Winter
- Check Hive for resources
- Remove Supers
- Remove Supplemental Feed
- Spot the Queen
- Tilt Hive forward
- Vent Hive
To attend our workshop please email us at bees@woodsbeeco.com after the class date has been posted. In order to provide a safe environment, we are limiting the number of people who can attend each class. These workshops are hands-on so please bring your suit as we will get into the hives (absolutely no hive tools allowed on-site, they will be provided).
Keeping Bees Alive
Author: Lawrence John Connor
Publisher: Wicwas Press LLC (July 1, 2019)
Paperback
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1878075586
ISBN-13: 978-1878075581
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