Bees in the City
February 9th 2019. 09:30 to 16:30The Toronto Beekeepers Collective presents Bees in the City: Better Urban Beekeeping
Sat, 9 February 2019
9:30 AM – 4:30 PM
Christ Church Deer Park (Anglican)
1570 Yonge Street
Registration begins at 9:30 and the sessions start at 10:00.
The day includes several plenary sessions as well as smaller concurrent breakout sessions.
Speakers include members of our collective as well as our professional beekeepers, Dan Douma and Luc Peters and a special guest, j W Foster, Executive Chef at The Fairmont Royal York Hotel. Chef Foster will lead a session on flavour profiles and cooking with honey.
NEW THIS YEAR! There will be a choice of concurrent breakout sessions. Some of these sessions will appeal largely to beginners. Others have been designed for more experienced beekeepers. Please see the agenda below for more details
Morning and afternoon snacks, as well as a delicious lunch with a variety of food choices, are included in your ticket.
You will have a chance to view and buy the wares of a number of vendors of bee equipment and products.
At the end of the day, there will be draws for a number of exciting bee-themed items. You will get a draw ticket as part of your registration, and additional tickets can be purchased--$2 per ticket or 3 tickets for $5. Ticket holders must be in attendance at the draw to win, but you can have a friend hold your tickets if you need to get away early.
Discounted tickets are available at a cost of $40 for seniors and students. Please contact nbardecki@hotmail.com to register for the student/seniors rate.
Also, bursaries are available for those who are interested in beekeeping but cannot afford a ticket. Please contact nbardecki@hotmail.com
Bees in the City: Better Urban Beekeeping
Agenda for February 9, 2019 Event
9:30 Registration
10:00 Introduction and welcome
10:10 Interactive session: What makes a good beekeeper? Understand the tasks of the beekeeper’s year, sharing how beekeepers manage and what the bees need
10:30 Split session:
A: Bee life cycle and bees’ roles in the hive
B: The hive as super-intelligence; the art of rearing queens
11:00 Joint session: Threats to pollinators and our environment: how we can help
11:20 Joint session: Bee communication
11:40 Bee Trivia: get out of your seat and discuss with others
11:55 Introduce vendors
12:00 Lunch and networking
12:45 Split session:
A: Remedies FROM the hive
B: Remedies FOR the hive (mites, diseases, beetles, etc., and treatments)
1:30 Split session:
A: Workshop — infusions and lip balms
B: Swarms and swarm management
2:15 Joint session: Honey flavour origins
3:00 Joint session: Cooking with honey, flavour profiles and related food pairings – courtesy of the Fairmont Royal York Hotel’s Executive Chef jW Foster
4:00 Interactive session: Q&A, what we learned, where we can go from here
4:20 Closing remarks and raffle results