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Winter Prep Workshop 2020


  • Uptown Girls Honey,LLC 11011 Beaver Bridge Road Chesterfield, VA, 23838 United States (map)

We will offer the Winter Prep Workshop over several dates and time slots this year in an effort to maintain everyone’s safety.

Please, CALL US (804)818-2761 to sign up!

Dates include:

Saturday November 7, 2020

(AM spot is currently FULL) OR 1 pm to 3 pm

Sunday November 8, 2020

10 am to 12 pm OR 1 pm to 3 pm

Saturday November 14, 2020

10 am to 12 pm OR 1 pm to 3 pm

Sunday November 15, 2020

10 am to 12 pm OR 1 pm to 3 pm

Sign up will be limited and on a first come basis so we can adhere to safety guidelines and limits.

Masks are required.

Topics include: managing hives thru winter for happy spring bees, condensing space/combining hives, proper storage of equipment, making sugar boards for emergency feed and quilt boxes for moisture absorption.

Bring your own shallow or medium super to turn into a quilt box (FREE)

Bring your own sugar board form to fill (Cost $7 per sugar board form filled, sugar provided)

Enjoy Brunswick Stew cooked over the fire!

If you need equipment, PLEASE pre-order sugar board forms and/or quilt box supers on or before October 24 for pick up at the workshop.

CALL (804)818-2761 or EMAIL dandelionsprings@comcast.net

8 & 10 frame sugar board forms $15.95 each, 5 frame nuc sugar board forms $14.95,

8 & 10 frame medium supers $15.80 each unassembled,

or $21.80 each assembled and painted.

Earlier Event: March 28
Pollinator Homes & Habitats
Later Event: January 23
How can YOU help the bees?