Later this summer, apiarist Dave Noble will returning to provide a full one day Saturday beekeeping workshop for us. In the morning classroom session, Dave will continue where he left off last year with a discussion of fall season beekeeping management tasks. Dave has also developed a very popular “Queen Finding” class he teaches at his local apiary. For our group, the afternoon Queen Finding session will accommodate up to 30 students who will work in pairs to practice skills, techniques, and protocols needed to become fast and efficient at finding the queen.

Costs for the field day event are included with your 2020 membership in good standing. Dave will be donating 15 queens, our beekeepers will provide the bees. Fifteen participants who volunteer to provide queenless nucs, will go home after the class with new queenright colonies. Dave’s queens will be arriving about 3 weeks prior to the event in mid-July, so if you want to participate by providing bees, you will have to plan ahead. You will provide a queenless nuc (either from a mid-summer split, or a colony you want to re-queen). If it’s been awhile, or you’ve never done a split before, we will have a refresher class at our April meeting.

Dave needs to limit the afternoon class size to 30, so if you want to attend, (or provide bees), we will have more details and sign-ups available at the MARCH meeting on March 8.