Beekeeping for Beginners Workshop
Thu, Dec 09
|DeMotte Public Library
Join us to learn what the BUZZ is all about! Topics to be discussed are the annual cycle of your hives, costs, commitments and tools to get started, where to place your hives, harvesting honey and approved recycling containers.
Time & Location
Dec 09, 2021, 5:30 PM – 6:30 PM CST
DeMotte Public Library, 901 Birch St SW, De Motte, IN 46310, USA
About the event
Jasper County Soil and Water Conservation District in conjunction with Jasper County Purdue Extension and Apis Engineering will host a free Beekeeping for Beginners workshop. Join us on Thursday, December 9th at 5:30 pm CST in the West Room at the DeMotte Public Library. This workshop will provide attendees with information about the costs, commitments, tools and equipment needed to get started, where to place your hives, the annual cycle of honeybee’s society, harvesting honey and more.
Attendees will hear from experts Krispn Given and Dale McMahan. Krispn Given is recognized as one of the leading authorities in honey bee instrumental insemination and honey bee breeding. He is the Apiculture Specialist at Purdue University’s Department of Entomology in West Lafayette Indiana.
Mr. Given started breeding bees over 27 years ago, conducting research with 250 colonies looking for solutions to improve honey bee health. He currently manages Purdue’s honey bee breeding program, teaching annual queen rearing short courses in addition to managing honey bee laboratory and extension activities.
Krispn is best known for the “Mite-biter” bee strain, where they have demonstrated high-selected bees that chew up to 50% of the mites that are groomed off their body’s resulting in healthier honey bee colonies.
Dale McMahan has been a beekeeper for more than 35 years and has a 50 colony queen breeding and rearing operation in northwest Indiana. His 30 acre farm in northwest Indiana has been converted to bee-friendly plantings.
Dale holds a bachelor’s degree in engineering from Purdue University and a master’s degree in business from Olivet Nazarene University. He owns and operates the machine shop where Apis Engineering products are developed and manufactured. Dale is a bee breeder and Master Beekeeper.
RSVP to jaspercountysoilandwater@gmail.com or 219-866-8008 x3 if you are interested in attending.
If you need a reasonable accommodation to participate in this program prior to the meeting, please let us know.