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FRANKFORT, Ky. — Kentucky beekeeping experts will present a greatly expanded Kentucky Beekeeping School Feb. 26 at Woodford County High School in Versailles.
The one-day school is scheduled to offer new sessions on honey marketing, making candles and other beeswax products, pollination, hive management and many other subjects. The school also is scheduled to repeat classes on pollen trapping, pest control, honey production, honey house construction and other beekeeping topics that were offered in last year’s inaugural event.
Dr. Tom Webster of Kentucky State University will teach four beginning beekeeping sessions as part of his Beginning Beekeeping class series at KSU. He will moderate a question-and-answer session at the end of the school.
Scheduled presenters include Webster and Robin Mountain of KSU; State Apiarist Phil Craft of the Kentucky Department of Agriculture; Jed Davis, former president of the Kentucky Beekeeping Association; beekeepers Jon Maybriar of Midway, Carol Mark of Owensboro, Ross and Joyce Branscum of Henry County and Fritz Vorisek of Frankfort; and Janet Eaton, the KDA’s farmers’ market coordinator.
Registration will begin at 8:30 a.m. EST. The school is scheduled to conclude about 3:15 p.m.
Pre-registration fee is $10 for adults and $5 for children. Pre-registration is due by Feb. 21. Checks should be made payable to the Blue Grass Beekeeping Association. Registration forms and fees should be mailed to Larry Blandford, 411 Brannon Road, Nicholasville, KY 40356.
Registration at the door will be $15 for adults and $10 for children.
For more information, contact Phil Craft by phone at (502) 564-3956 or by e-mail at phil.craft@ky.gov, or go to www.kyagr.com/cons_ps/bees/.
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