WOOLWICH — Christy Hemenway, owner of Gold Star Honeybees in Bath, will offer a two- day intensive workshop on “topbar” beekeeping Saturday and Sunday at the Shelter Institute.
The workshop is designed specifically for those who want to get started keeping bees in top bar hives during the 2012 beekeeping season.
The class will focus “on the why of things, combined with important how- to information, history, hive management techniques, and natural disease and pest control methods,” according to a Shelter Institute release.
Instruction will include demonstrations of related activities, such as hive inspection techniques, comb handling, mite monitoring, wax rendering, splitting, honey harvest and winterizing.
Tuition costs $200 per person. The Shelter Institute is located at 873 Route 1 in Woolwich.
For more information or to register for the workshops, go online to www.shelterinstitute.com or call 442-7938.
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