Beekeeping Class 2021 

​Due to Covid the Beekeeping Course will not be open in 2021 as a full course.  Hopefuly face-to-face classes will start again beginning in February of 2022. 
Depending on if the instructors have been vaccinated by summer we may offer the field classes this year.  Email if you are interested.
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This course is support for your first year as a beekeeper. 

 
​The online class is NOT available.

Seven sessions from February to September, walking you through what to buy to get started as a beekeeper and how to nurture the bees through their first working season to trying to keep them alive through the winter. 

This class is taught by two award winning retired professional instructors with over 100 years of combined beekeeping experience.
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The cost is $100/person (~$7/hour)

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1st Class:  Indoor           
​Saturday February 8, 2020     
8:30 AM - 10:30 AM
​People’s Co-op 315 5th Ave S, La Crosse, WI 

​Vocabulary of Beekeeping Supplies, cost, and where to purchase​

2nd Class:  Indoor           
​Saturday February 22, 2020      8:30 AM - 10:30 AM
​People’s Co-op 315 5th Ave S, La Crosse, WI ​

​History of beekeeping, description of bees and their life cycle, construction of equipment,professional beekeeping organizations

3nd Class:  Indoor           
​Saturday March 7, 2020      
8:30 AM - 10:30 AM
​People’s Co-op 315 5th Ave S, La Crosse, WI ​​

Ordering packages of bees, spring feeding and medication, demonstration of hiving packages, queen marking, and capturing swarms

4th Class:  Outdoor           
​Date/Time:  TBD (April 14 - 21)
​Location:  TBD ​​

Hiving the bees (introducing them to the hive)

5th Class:  Outdoor           
​Date/Time:  TBD (June 2nd)
​Location:  TBD ​​

Visit an apiary, look for queen and drones, larvae, pupa, and adult workers (checking for health of hive).  Mark the queen

6th Class:  Outdoor           
​Date/Time:  TBD (August 18th)
​Location:  TBD ​​​

​Methods of removing supers from hives (where the honey is), and extracting methods.

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              7th Class:  Outdoor           
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              Date/Time:  TBD (September 8)
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              Location:  TBD ​​​

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•                    Discuss fall feeding, medication and winterizing the hive

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