Beekeeping

Learn the basics of keeping honey bees, including considerations to get started, bee biology, major tasks centered on each “bee season”, an introduction to recognizing and treating common honey bee ailments and pests and experience hands-on training in the WDT apiary. The hands-on portion will include inspections, mite treatments and winterizing your apiary hives. By the end of this course, students will receive the basic knowledge to successfully manage and overwinter your colony.

No Prerequisites to attend the basic course.  

Classes will be from 6:30pm-9:00pm each night. No Saturday class in March*
In person class with option to participate virtually.

*Saturday's class will be held in conjunction with the Advanced Beekeeping class on Saturday, May 13th.

The Advance Beekeeping expands on the knowledge received during the basic beekeeping course and focuses on the details of colony management: Pest and Disease Treatments, queen management and Supplemental Feeding. It also includes instruction on the honey bee’s internal anatomy, bee subspecies and reproduction and how to expand (hive splitting) and self-sustaining your apiary. The hands-on session will include deliberate hive inspections and hive splitting using several easy and effective techniques.  

To attend the Saturday hands-on portion of this course, you must have a bee suit with veil and gloves and sign the WDTC Liability Waiver.