The Art & Science of Beekeeping Hands on Workshops offered April thru August
🐝 Attendees: Eight people per workshop maximum.
🌼 Workshop Fee: Donations accepted $25 minimum per workshop – click to donate here paypal.me/karenposner1 or we can email you a square link if you prefer.
🐝 Register: Please send us an email at swayingdaisieshoney@gmail.com with your name, phone number & the date(s) of workshop you wish to attend.
🌼 Workshop Site: Hinesburg VT. Upon registration we’ll send you the exact location of workshop & the current weeks bee health updates & worksheets.
🐝 Wanna chat: Call or Text Gerald 914 703 8374
🐝 Who can learn beekeeping? Anyone!
🌼Spring Workshop Sessions:
(All workshops are weather dependent. We will notify you in advance of date changes)
Morning Sessions 10am – 12pm
- Session One 3rd week in April – Overwintering inspection & beehive vitality inspection.
- Session Two : 1st week in May – Queen inspection & status. Beehive vitality & pest inspection.
- Session Three : 2nd week in May – Honeybee pests, brood health & supplemental feed.
- Session Four :1st week in June – Queen replacement decision making, supplemental feed & pest ID.
- Session Five : 2nd week in June – Hive vitality review, key production honey indicators.
- Session Six : 3rd week in June -TBD in relation to bee biology, pests, pollinator plants & environmental conditions.
🐝 Adverse weather may impact the dates of workshops. If needed we will inform you of alternate dates.
🌼 Beekeeping Summer Workshops: June thru August.
🐝 Information: Each attendee shall receive appropriate fact sheets, worksheets, as well relevant & timely practices & procedures of honeybee biology & health.
🌼 Session Goals: Provide each attendee a higher level of confidence in caring for their honeybees through a more in depth look at bee biology. As well grasping practical adaptive practices in light of unexpected climate change impacts. Including disruption of historical pollinator plant flowering periods, pollutants, existing & emerging pests, as well as weather extreme flip-flops.
🐝 Philosophy: Enquiry of the direct and ubiquitous impacts of climate change upon honeybee biology, health, vigor & vitality.
🌼 Context: Chronic & acute climate change impacts exerted upon honeybees are consequential, & growing in frequency, & duration.
Why Learn Beekeeping?
- Because bees are super awesome! They are amazing creatures that we can learn a lot from.
- It’s fun, satisfying & reinforces our connection to nature.
- Pollination of flowering plants & our food supply.
- Having your very own honey (& possibly lots of it) is a tasty & healthy benefit.
- Beekeeping is a wonderful craft that promotes critical thinking skills.
- It’s a timeless & intriguing experience about natures natural systems within systems.
- You’ll increase your vocabulary with words like nucs, supers, brood, requeening etc… .
- Ensure the art & science of beekeeping is passed on to future generations.
Gerald Posner has cared for soil, trees, herbaceous plants & bees as a professional for over 35 years. He was educated at Cobleskill College (AAS), Cornell University (B.S.) and Columbia University (Master in Sustainability Science Management). Throughout his career he has worked with local associations, government agencies, corporate parks, non for profits, botanic gardens, several parks. Including Brooklyn, NY Prospect Park. Manhattan, NY Central Park, Tompkins Square Park, Bryant Park as well as school districts, NYC Department of Transportation, civic associations and private estates. Today, his focus is on the care of bees in Vermont and like most beekeepers he’s honing his bee care skill sets in the current Anthropocene era. Gerald is looking forward to greeting each new beekeeper & learning from your experiences as well.
🐝Check out information about our other workshops offered below🐝
Re-Queenig Workshops 🌼