$50.00 – $100.00Price range: $50.00 through $100.00
Saturday, March 28th 2026 Time; 8:30am to 4:30pm
Learn advanced skills managing queens to grow healthy bee colony expansion
Level 3 – Saturday, March 28 – Advanced techniques for mastering beekeeping. Skills: Small scale raising of local queens: selecting and culling breeder colonies, managing for successful mating of virgin queens, managing five frame and double nucs as “brood factories”, using the Demaree (and modified Demaree) split for swarm control, quality control for selling nucs and queens, IPM and biosecurity advanced practices, and more.
Looking Ahead to Level 3 Class on Saturday, March 28 – Advanced techniques for mastering beekeeping.
- Reviewing critical IPM and biosecurity practices
- The multiple uses of double screen boards – learning from Bob Binnie’s uses of the double screen board
- Managing nucs as brood factories – applying the principles of the MIchael Palmer model
- Small scale raising of local queens
- Selecting and culling breeder colonies
- Feeding bees following bee feeding chemistry – beyond traditional feeding recommendations
- Managing the principles for successful mating of virgin queens,
- Using the Demaree (and modified Demaree) split for swarm control, increased honey production, and colony increases
- Determining the quality standards for selling nucs and queens
- Q & A
Your registration includes:
- Manual – Beekeeping in Northern Climates, 3rd ed. by the U of MN Bee Lab – $25 value
- 6-8 monthly Zoom meetings for Level 1 (beginner) beekeepers
- Field days (in an active bee yard) for Level 1 (beginner beekeepers)
- Mentoring as requested
- Hive tool & Varroa mite monitoring kit
- Additional beekeeping information hand-outs
- Refreshments & lunch
- Door prizes
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