The Ohio State University Honey Bee Lab and Tri-County Beekeepers’ Association Spring Workshop will be held Friday & Saturday, March 5 & 6, 2010, at OSU’s Fisher Auditorium and Shisler Center at 1680 Madison Ave., Wooster, OH. The program will start on Friday evening at 6:00 p.m. with tours of the OSU Beekeeping Museum, at 7:00 p.m. Dr. James E. Tew will speak about “Good Bees in Bad Places” and concurrently Ms. Kathy Summers on “Bee Culture through the Years”. After the program there will be a social hour from 8:00 to 9:00 p.m. with cookies and beverages being served.
Saturday, March 6, 2010 - Dr. Dewey Caron, keynote speaker, will start he morning by speaking about “CCD & AHB: Not Everything is All Bad”. Other speakers will include Barb Blochester, Ohio Department of Agriculture, Kim Flottum, Bee Culture Magazine, Dr. Joe Latshaw, Latshaw Apairies, Morgan Taggart, OSU Extension.
Some topics include: Making Jams & Jellies, Cooking with Honey, Divisersified Sideline Beekeeping, Urban Beekeeping, Reading Frames, Beekeeping Without Chemicals – Can it Be Done, and more.
This year we will again have the ever popular Basic Beekeeping track – this is for people who are thinking about becoming beekeepers or who have just started. The Kids Program will be hosted by the Lorain County Beekeepers and TCBA will again have their Practical Applications Room.
Many vendors will be at the workshop, so be sure to bring your lists along. We will post them as they register.
At the workshop there will be the baking contest, guessing contest, and door prizes will be given away throughout the day.
Those who want to purchase lunch we will have a choice of hot lunch or boxed.
Registration will be $35.00 per person pre-registration and $45.00 walk-in registration. The registration packet will be posted within the next 2 weeks. For more information contact us.