Getting Started with Beekeeping

In-Person Workshop at the Grafton Community Church Chapel

Saturday, March 26th, 10 - 12

Sliding scale $20 - $40

Beekeeping is a joyful and rewarding pastime that brings participants closer to nature. Natural Beekeeping author, Ross Conrad, will lead this workshop designed for those looking to get started in beekeeping. Topics covered include obtaining the equipment you will need, sourcing honey bees, choosing an apiary site, and overwintering bees in Vermont, along with numerous tips for beginners.

Ross Conrad learned his craft from the late Charles Mraz, world-renowned beekeeper and his son Bill Mraz.  Conrad is a former president of the Vermont Beekeeper's Association, a regular contributor to Bee Culture - The Magazine of American Beekeeping, author of Natural Beekeeping: Organic Approaches To Modern Apiculture published by Chelsea Green (2013), and co-author of The Land of Milk and Honey: A History of Vermont Beekeeping published by Green Writers Press. (2020) 

Ross has given bee related presentations and led organic beekeeping workshops and classes throughout North America for many years. His beekeeping business, Dancing Bee Gardens, supplies friends, neighbors with honey and candles among other bee related products, has 5-frame nucleus bee colonies available each June, and provides bees for Vermont pollination in spring.