Beekeeping can be a challenging but profitable addition to your landscape. Learning about how to meet those challenges improves your success and profitability. This course will introduce you to how beekeeping can be incorporated into your existing small farm plan. Topics covered include Basic Beekeeping Background information, managing hives for honey production and harvesting, the importance of pollination, value-added products as well as an extraction demonstration. Anyone interested in learning how to incorporate beekeeping into their farm plan is welcome, including beginners and non-beekeepers. If you have a bee suit, feel free to bring it. A limited number of suits will be available for the field demonstration. 

Amy Weeks is a lifelong Louisiana resident where she manages 90 colonies on My Favorite Honey Farm. She is a Master Craftsman Beekeeper with a full-time business selling bees, honey bee queens, honey, and hive products. Amy has worked internationally on several USAID projects teaching beekeeping skills in developing countries and is continuing her education at the University of Edinburgh graduate program, Biodiversity, Wildlife, and Ecosystem Health.