Flanders Nature Center & Land Trust, Bee-Friend Co-op

Flanders invites you to join our Bee-Friend Co-op to learn beekeeping and have hands-on experience with honey bees. Currently, raising bees is challenging even for the most experienced beekeepers. Purchasing bees and a hive can be cost prohibited for a beginner. This year Flanders will offer a bee-friend co-op to promote the importance of pollinators and help participants learn all about keeping bees.

Ten hive shares will be sold at $30 per share, which is about the cost of a new hive with bees. About every three weeks from April to November, Al Avitabile, beekeeper and co-author of The Beekeepers Handbook (and other local experienced bee keepers) will monitor the hive with Flanders Bee-Friends Co-op participants as we learn how to manage a hive of bees together. Participants will share the honey if the bees make above what they need to survive winter.

Bees are scheduled to arrive sometime around April 14^th for the first Co-op workshop…How to hive your packaged bees. Workshops are weather dependent and Co-op members will be called or e-mailed for monitoring sessions.

Co-op participants will need to purchase or borrow their own bee suit for hive monitoring.

For more details e-mail flanders@flandersnaturecenter.org

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Call 203-263-3711 x10