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New to Beekeeping? Welcome - It would be our pleasure to help support you on your Beekeeping journey!

Beyond helping you feel at ease with your new colony, the peace of mind that comes with having a Pro one text away with personalized advice, and who is invested in your success, is invaluable.

We want to help you learn not just what to do, but why.

While YouTube and Books are a good place to start, nothing helps your confidence like the support of someone experienced - both with bees, and the seasons of your local area.

Our Mentorship services are tailored to the individual. Whether you are brand new or have a few seasons under your belt, our goal is to help you fill in your knowledge gaps, whatever they may be. We love providing educational hand-outs and sending you suggested reading/watching to support your ongoing learning.

Your Mentor, Andie, is a Cornell certified Master Beekeeper with years of experience working full-time as a professional Beekeeper.

In the interest of accessibility and flexibility, the pricing of our Mentorship Program varies depending on how much support you would like.

If you’d like for us to drop in on just a few inspections with clear learning objectives, we can do that!
If you’d like for us to be with you every step of the season, and be present with you at each inspection, we can do that, too!

Full Season of Mentorship from May to October includes:

- Up to 15 (fifteen) visits to your home/hive with you, averaging 1-2 hours each visit. We’ll perform an inspection and talk bees!
- Varroa Mite treatments, supplemental feeding options (pollen, fondant, and syrup), and all inspection consumables.
- Educational material to support your learning.
- Off-site access to your Mentor, if any questions arise in between visits.
- Small scale extraction equipment to harvest honey at home (3 frame electric extractor, hobbyist uncapping tank/tools)

Investment: $1250 for a Full Season
This can be prorated if you’re interested support part way through a season.

Half Season of Mentorship includes:

- All of the above, but up to 7 (seven) visits to your home/hive with you, averaging 1-2 hours each visit.
- This can be booked throughout May to October (coming every other inspection or so), or at your leisure.

Investment: $625 for a Half Season

If you only see yourself needing occasional support, this may be for you.

Consider this a 3-visit punch card where you can tap in a handy and experienced Beekeeper to help with your pain points. Maybe it’s Splits or Harvest, maybe it’s developing a successful IPM plan or prepping for greater overwintering success… You choose!

Investment: $225 for 3 Visits, lasting up to 2 hours each.

Our Beginners Curriculum Includes, but isn’t limited to:

- Basic Honey Bee biology and parts of the hive
- The Lifecycle of each of the 3 Members of the Colony
- How to affectively use your tools
- How/when to perform an inspection, what to look for, and how to take effective notes
- How to Queenspot, and the signs of Queen viability
- How to read bee behaviour in the hive; including sights, sounds, and smells.
- Learn swarm prevention techniques
- Appropriate timing for splits, swarm prevention, re-queening, honey curing, etc.
- Integrated Pest Management (IPM) strategies; how to monitor for varroa mites, and when/how to use both cultural and chemical controls.
- The basics of other pests, pathogens, and disease that affect Honey Bees.
- How and when to Harvest
- The five cornerstones of overwintering success
- Un-invasive ways to check on your bees overwinter