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Basic Beekeeping: Information and Equipment Needed to Start a Beekeeping Career

Adult Enrichment / Nature & Outdoors -
Winter/Spring 2025

Are you interested in learning more about beekeeping? Then this course is for you! Learn about honey bee biology, how to install a package of bees and witness their progress, as well as information about bee diseases. There will be a live demonstration of the proper way to install a package into the hive on the Saturday dates at the instructor's bee yard located at 356 Carmel Hill Road North, Bethlehem, CT. 

Alphonse Avitabile

Instructor

Alphonse is a professor in the biology department at the University of Connecticut and co-author of the “Bee Keepers Handbook.”

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Map/Locations
Locations
Bee Yard
356 Carmel Hill Rd N
Bethlehem, CT 06751
Lewis S. Mills High School
26 Lyon Rd
Burlington, CT 06013
A-NAT004

  Alphonse Avitabile

Lewis S. Mills High School : A130
Tue Mar 18, Tue Mar 25 & Tue Apr 1
6:30 - 8:30 PM
Bee Yard
Sat Mar 29 & Sat Apr 5
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  No Class Mar 22

Min Age   16 yr.
$ 89.00
Course Fee