Events

 

Next meeting at Tinker Park :

October 22, 1-3pm, in the nature center
                  Speaker: Peter Sieling, Six and a Half Reasons for Smoking and Drumming Bees—Before the invention of movable comb hives, smoking and drumming bees gave master beekeepers almost as much control over box hives and skeps as the moveable frame hive. The technique is still useful today and should be in every beekeeper's mental toolbox.

Peter Sieling has been a woodworker, lumber processor and kiln operator for over twenty five years.  He has written several books for Mason Crest Publishing and Garreson Publishing, plus numerous articles for Bee Culture, Popular Woodworking, Sawmill and Woodlot,  Better Homes and Gardens Wood magazine, and Christian Science Monitor.

Suggested donation 5-10.00




Beginning Beekeeper resources:
     

NY Bee Wellness videos: http://tinyurl.com/y8va2cdj

Beekeeping for beginners; 102 page PDF (Penn State, 204) 

Basic Equipment
 
Advanced beekeeping topics: 8 pages; Penn State 2012
 

How-To Videos by the University of Guelph, Canada

Videos  from NY Bee Wellness (YouTube)

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Beginning Beekeeping Class 2023
Rochester NY
https://tinyurl.com/2lu5uaa4tinyurl.com/2lu5uaa4

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/beginning-beekeeping-rochester-ny-2023-registration-418187067777?utm_campaign=post_publish&utm_medium=email&utm_source=eventbrite&utm_content=shortLinkNewEmail

Rochester Beekeepers / NY Bee Wellness Inc.

WHERE: Hansen Nature Center, Tinker Park, 1525 Calkins Road Rochester, NY 14534

3 classes plus a field session working bees in the apiary; LIMIT 25 participants

FEE: 100.00, includes text “Keeping Honey Bees” by Sanford/Bonney, hand-outs; the text will be sent to you
For students, 50.00; name of school and grade level required
Payable through EventBrite, or by PayPal to donate@nybeewellness.org, or by money order to NY Bee Wellness POB 25291 Rochester NY 14625

WHEN: Meets Saturdays from 9:00am to 1pm

February 4-- Introduction to bees

March 4- Working with bees, and Diseases/Pests/Predators

April 1- Your Growing Colonies, and Honey Harvesting

Field day TBD, dependent on weather (required to receive an optional certificate)

Instructors:
*Pat Bono, Rochester NY, Background: Master Beekeeper, University of Montana, Founder- NY Bee Wellness Inc.

*Bob Deemer, Arcadia NY; Background:Former Pennsylvania Apiary Inspector , Plant Manager- Barkman Honey


Contact: Pat Bono, workshop@nybeewellness.org; 585-820-6619


 

NY Bee Wellness, Inc. is an educational 501c3 not for profit; NYBeeWellness.org