Three 2 hour courses will give you the foundation to start beekeeping. From determining the type of hive, to placement, rules, installation, inspections, treatment, harvesting and overwintering, you will learn what to expect and how to deepen your new relationship with bees. Course includes Phil Chandler's Barefoot Beekeeping book and you are required to pass a test to receive the Beepod Certificate for Beekeeping.

Urban Ecology Center-Riverside
1500 E Park Place
Milwaukee, WI 53211
reservations 414-964-8505
www.urbanecologycenter.org
(members $140 - nonmembers $150)
Sep 13, 20  & 27

Class 3 of 3  - Hive Management

a) Following Inspections
Once every 14 days
Brood Pattern/Burrcomb
Drones
Queen Cells
Robbing

b) Swarming
Why?
What do I do?
Bait Traps/Splitting/Forced Swarm
Requeening

c) Honey Harvesting
extraction methods
dos & don'ts

d) Overwintering
Returning Winter Stores
Enrtance Reducing
Winter Flights
Coming Full Circle/Feeding
Death/Cleaning