Location
Hampton Bays High School
88 Argonne Road East
Hampton Bays, NY 11946 (Map)
Tel: 6317232110 x 3208 High School
Contact Name: Deb Klughers – via email
Visit Website: Website.
Date & Time
06:00 PM – 09:00 PM
Wed, Dec 04, 2024
Cost: 35.00
Description
From installing bees to overwintering and everything in between, learn the tools and tips of the trade for year-round colony management from an EAS Certified Master Beekeeper. You will also learn how to make an all-in-one honey decrystalizing cabinet, bees wax renderer, and candle warming cabinet. How to make a super sterilizer to sterilize bee boxes and frames ( also useful for rendering beeswax) as well as how to make a 55-gallon sugar syrup mixer will be discussed. This talk is great for beekeepers of all levels, but non-beekeepers are also welcome! If you have attended this class in the past, new tips as well as many large devices you can mane have been added. There will be door prizes as well as time at the end for Q&A.Registration: IN PERSON: Room 20A High School 8-2:35 using form in brochure. Please use one form per course and a separate check for each course.
BY MAIL: Fill out the registration form,in the link above, and send to the address below.
HB Community & Continuing Education
88 East Argonne Road
Hampton Bays, New York 11946
Deborah Klughers is a Certified Eastern Apicultural Society Master Beekeeper and the owner of Bonac Bees LLC, a full-service apiculture and apitherapy company. She is the largest female beekeeper on Long Island and manages about 100 honey bee colonies at over 35 locations on the south fork of Long Island. Deborah has won numerous ribbons at local, national, and international honey shows. Deborah offers lectures and demonstrations, at national and international beekeeping conferences as well as at local libraries, schools, garden and civic organizations and more. She presented original research internationally (at Apimondia) and locally at Hofstra University symposium. A passionate advocate for honey bees, Deborah captures and relocates honey bee swarms and also performs cutouts.
Deborah holds a master’s degree in Marine Conservation and Policy, and a bachelor’s degree in Environmental Studies, both from Stony Brook University.