Queen rearing workshop

This is a comprehensive hands on 2 day workshop - Saturday July 15 and Sunday July 16 2023

In the two days you will gain experience, skills, and techniques on queen rearing from Koty, a queen and Nuc producer raising queens weekly to supply  beekeepers. 

skills you will learn hands on 

• setting up a cell builder 
• grafting ( advise, tips, and techniques)
• moving cells to a finisher
• setting up mating nucs
• handling queen cells
• marking and caging queens

on the second day we will return to see how successful your grafts were from the previous day, and discuss breeding bees for improved genetic traits - followed by a second session of grafting. 

This workshop is suited for someone with 3 or more years of beekeeping experience .

This workshop will be held outdoors in Athens, just north of Lyndhurst and is weather dependent. If the weather is not promising the 2 day workshop will be rescheduled