Discover ways to be a beekeeper on this self-paced on-line path that teaches scholars learn how to get started, take care of, and take care of a honey bee colony.
Direction Assessment
This on-line magnificence is designed to supply data that new beekeepers want to get started and take care of a honey bee colony. Be informed the whole thing you wish to have to grasp to additional your pastime or get your small business off the bottom!
Members can be offered to bee biology and control. Members may even learn to bring together hives, open and read about colonies, and notice how honey and beeswax are harvested.
This path fulfills the felony necessities of the State of New Jersey for beekeeper schooling: https://www.nj.gov/agriculture/pdf/Diseasesofbees.pdf.
There can be a reside Q & A Consultation on Zoom with the instructors Michael & Debra Haberland on Wednesday, October 23, 2024 from 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm. The Zoom hyperlink to wait the reside consultation can be despatched to registered scholars the day earlier than. (Observe: For those who check in for the path after the Q&A date, even supposing you’re going to omit the risk to wait reside, a recording of the Q&A consultation will robotically be shared with you.)
Featured Subjects
- Bee Biology
- Illness and Mite Prevention
- Hive Meeting and Control
- Honey Extraction
- Queen Bee Buying
- And A lot Extra!
Who Will have to Attend?
Whether or not you might be emblem new to beekeeping or have already got a couple of years as an apiarist below your belt, you’re going to achieve treasured insights from our seasoned trainer and his enjoy.
Our scholars come from all walks of existence – lawyers, the military, lecturers, retirees, farmers, artists – however they go away with something in not unusual: a newfound self assurance to begin their very own hives and pursue their pastime for beekeeping.
Meet Your Instructors
Mike Haberland, Rutgers Cooperative Extension
Mike Haberland is an affiliate professor and County Environmental Agent with Rutgers College Cooperative Extension. He makes use of implemented analysis and collaborates with organizations to broaden techniques that lend a hand within the advent, promotion, and schooling of leading edge environmental, sustainable group and herbal useful resource control practices. Mike makes use of beekeeping and the advent of local pollinator habitat for analysis and so to train the general public at the significance of pollinators.
Debra Haberland, Operating Women Meadows
Debbie is a marine biologist, instructor, and proprietor of Operating Women Meadows. She has been curious about beekeeping for over seven years. One in all her primary objectives is to make use of her schooling and medical background to advertise the science of beekeeping and train at the significance of pollinators. The purpose of Debbie’s apiaries is to supply queens and nucleus hives to extend the supply of locally-raised and tailored bees as a way to lend a hand the survival and well being of bees in our space.