Greetings! In this EBEEBOOKS email:
1. New Beekeeper Essentials (Michigan) -- Space is Available
2. Looking for Thursday Daytime Students
3. Brother Adam Books
4. Texas Bee Classes and Queen Rearing Course
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NEW BEEKEEPER ESSENTIALS Dr. Larry Connor will offer small-group classes on the family farm in Galesburg, Michigan (Between Kalamazoo and Battle Creek) during seven sessions in 2009.
Enrollment for the Sunday session is about closed, and we are looking for 5 or more students to run the Friday evening and Saturday morning class.
Classes will be limited to six to ten students. Each student will assemble his or her own bee hive, and will manipulate the hive throughout the season. Each sessions will be about three hours long, and will be offered at different times on selected weekends from April to October.
Early registrants are meeting the first weekend in April for basic training in beekeeping, and working on their equipment. If enrollment allows, we will repeat this in early May. Bee colonies (as Michigan-raised nucs from Purdue University (Greg Hung) stock) will be delivered and installed later that month.
Each beekeeper will be expected to purchase a bee hive (new equipment only), a nucleus hive and personal protective gear. These purchases are NOT included in the registration fee.
The cost of the course is $298 per student and includes a copy of Dr. Dewey Caron's book Honey Bee Biology and Beekeeping (a $40 value).
This is a very unique and intensive course for the person serious about starting with bees and doing it correctly! IT IS NOT TOO LATE TO SIGN UP!
Click here for a PDF flier for the Course |
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SEEKING THURSDAY CLASSMATES We have a request for the above school to be offered during the week. If you can meet during the day, Monday-Friday, and want to attend the class, let me know. The current request is for a Thursday class. |
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Collin County Texas Programs April 17, 18 and 19
Dr. Larry Connor has revised the planned beekeeping course set for April 17,18,19.
The single course has been split into two courses due to the need for a basic course in addition to the advanced Queen Rearing and Nuc program.
Friday afternoon 4 PM to 8 PM will be an introduction to the queen and her role in the hive. This session will be offered to beekeepers with no experience minimum. $35 per student or $60 per couple.
Saturday 9 AM to 4 PM and Sunday 11 AM to 5 PM will be the Queen Rearing and Nuc program. This will be a concentrated pair of sessions that will get into details of queen rearing and nuc development. Minimum 2 years experience in the beeyard. $120 per student or $200 per couple.
If you are an experienced beekeeper, you certainly would enjoy the two day course. If you are a "newbee", you certainly would get a jump start on your beekeeping learning curve if you could attend the Friday session. Dr Connor is very well known in national beekeeping circles due to his experience and teaching ability.
––John Talbert prepared this message. Contact him by email at jjtalbert@att.net.
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Back on the list: BEEKEEPING AT BUCKFAST ABBEY, IN SEARCH OF THE BEST STRAINS OF BEES
The two major books by the monk that started the Buckfast strain of bees are back on our bookshelf. At the past Michigan Beekeepers meeting in East Lansing, speaker Mike Palmer (of northern Vermont) suggested folks check out the method Brother Adam used to overwinter colonies. This is where Kirk Webster and Mike Palmer developed the overwintering nucleus idea for the US.
To get more information and to purchase either of these books, got to www.wicwas.com (click below) and link to the PayPal bookstore.
click here for the Wicwas Website |
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New Reprint: Doolittle's Scientific Queen Rearing  G. M. Doolittle is often called the Father of Modern Queen Rearing, having developed the method of tranfering young larvae from worker brood cells to special wax cups he fashioned from rods from wooden rakes. Having spent over two decades to develop the methods, reviewing other methods, and evaluating the results, he finished the book on Christmas, 1888. The book was published by the American Bee Journal in 1889 and reprinted in 1899.
This is a very useful book, and in many way amazing due to Doolittle's insight into bee biology and the importance of quality queens in a beekeeping operation. An absolute must if you raise queens or plan to, this book is highly recommended for all beekeepers who are serious about learning how the beekeeper influences the quality of the queen and thus the entire hive.
The reprint has 101 pages. It has been reset, images enhanced, and a Table of Contents added to help find Doolittle's many discussion threads. The book sells for $20, plus shipping ($3 in the U.S.).
Wicwas Press also offers Doolittle's book A Year in an Out-Apiary as a reprint.
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Thank you for your continued support!
-- Larry
Larry Connor
Wicwas Press |
