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‘Introduction To Beekeeping
Workshop’, a two week course on March 1st and 8th,
2008, at the Pamunkey Regional Library in
The New River Valley Beekeepers Association is sponsoring a beekeeping class in March 22 & 29, 2008. For details send email to samwitch@west-point.org.
Location:
Thursdays 7:00 –
9:00pm
Jan. 31, Feb. 7, 21, 28
(No class on Feb. 14)
Cost: $25 per person
Invite
you to join us for a Beekeeping
Introduction!
Date:
Monday, March 3, 2008
Time:
Location: Fluvanna
Community Center/Fork
Cost $10.00 per person
Topics that will be covered:
· Equipment and Supplies needed to begin beekeeping for home and market
· Equipment catalogues and other sources of materials/bees
· Strategies to obtain strong hives for spring honey flow
· Tips for success
·
Call 842-3150 to register!
‘Beekeeping: Getting Started’, a five-week
non-credit course for anyone interested in learning about beekeeping, will be
offered at the Dabney S. Lancaster Community College
Rockbridge Regional Center in Lexington on Wednesdays, February 13, 20 and 27
and March 5 and 19, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. The instructor is Lannie Ballard, who has had many years of experience with
beekeeping. The class will be taught in part using the video, “A Year in
the Life of an Apiary” by Dr. Keith Delaplane.
Topics covered will include: where to buy the supplies, assembling equipment,
obtaining the bees, getting the bees installed and established, and managing
them through their first year. Tuition for the course is $75. To register,
contact the
Piedmont Beekeepers
(Greater
The Piedmont Beekeepers
will conduct a class on "Beginning Beekeeping - the Basics"
This will be a three week
course, meeting Tuesdays & Thursdays starting March 11, plus an additional
field day demonstrating package installation. Cost - $40.00 More information, contact George
Kelly, 540-586-0766 or e-mail btusnret@aol.com
Beekeeping Introduction!
Saturday, March 1, 2008
Contact Nelson County Extension Office for details
Michael Lachance
Email: lachance@vt.edu
Telephone: 434-263-4035
Beginner Beekeeping Course to be offered in Richmond
A
beginning beekeeping course for
The class will be on the following Saturday mornings:
February 9, 16, 23 and March 1 from 8:30am to 11:30am at Lewis Ginter Botanical Gardens.
To find out more, call 262-9887 or email register@lewisginter.org.
Beginning Beekeeping
On February 23, the Middle Peninsula
Business Development Partnership and Keith Tignor, Apiary Specialist with the
Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services will present an
all-day workshop on Beginning Beekeeping at the
This workshop will begin at 9 a.m. and run until 4 p.m. and will discuss various aspects of beekeeping or apiculture and agriculture, including state inspection programs, beginning basics, income sources and budgets, insurance, Africanized bees, organic certification, and various bee pests and diseases.
The cost to register for this comprehensive workshop is $45 and includes materials and lunch. Space is limited. Contact the MPBDP at 804-758-4917 or register on-line at www.mpbdp.org.
For More Information or to
Register for the Workshop Please Contact:
Candie Newman
804-758-4917
540-234-9977
Wytheville
For information on the beekeeping
class in
Practical
BEEKEEPING for Beginners
The Northern Virginia Beekeeping
Teachers Consortium is offering Practical
Beekeeping for Beginners consisting of weekly classes held in the evening
from mid Feb. to mid April, 2008.
The class is open to adults and children (ages 9 and over) who are
interest
Class sch
Contact John Lewis
(540) 869-4919
Contact Ann Harmon
(540) 364-4660
King George VA Cooperative Ext. Office,
Contact
Contact Billy Davis
(540) 903-9274 See http://www.loudonbee.org
Northern Virginia *
Contact Pat Haskell
(703) 560-3484 Se
Prince
William ** St. Benedict Monastery 9535 Linton Hall Road, Bristow
(Thursday)
Contact John Strecker (703)675-8251 See: www.PWSBeekeepers.com
Contact Kim Fraser
(540-785-8769)
*Northern VA- includes
** Prince William Regional includes
Stafford and
Email contact: PWSBeekeepers@gmail.com