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Wyoming College Workshops Friday, March 22, Pathfinder building at Laramie County Community College, . 1400 East College Drive, Cheyenne Registration opens at 8:30am, Classes start at 9:00am Registration is $125 Registration includes lunch, snacks and handouts. Breakfast and dinner on your own. Contact Catherine [email protected] : Wax Alchemy Beyond the Basics The hive as your Presented by the All things Wax University of Minnesota medicine chest. So you and your queen aren’t getting along! You don’t like With author and crafts Bee Squad. woman, Petra Ahnert the current hive temperament Frederique Keller MS, L. Ac or production is weak. President, Bees wax is a wonderful, mallea- Dr. Anne Masterman and American Apitherapy Learn how to raise your own ble and beneficial product that Ana Heck MMP Society Inc. gentle, productive, winter- has a wide array of possible ho- is challenging and many hardy queen bees. listic and decorative uses. Pro- things can go wrong during the sea- Apitherapy is an ancient healing mo- jects can vary from sons keeping bees. This craft needs dality used to treat many illnesses, Learn to control the hive balms and beeswax creams, to to be treated as animal husbandry sometime to alleviate pain from inju- genetics and quality. household items like the classic and need to take their ries both chronic and acute. Some skills to the next level to be beeswax candle. Bees wax Alche- conditions treated by Apitherapy; successful. my is your first step towards us- arthritis, m.s.,, wounds, sprains and Presented by Dr. Tom Repas. They will cover diagnosing colony even tumors. ing bees wax to make beautiful, health issues and common causes of A one day workshop will present wellness boosting gifts for colony loss, queen issues, Apitherapy encompasses the use of and address questions about rais- friends, family, and even your- bee pheromones, feeding and nutri- bee hive products including honey, ing your own queens. What it self. tion, wintering strategies, and tips , propolis, and bee takes to rear high quality queens. for planning your beekeeping Basic biology and various meth- venom. Not a ? year. Masterman and Heck will ods of queen rearing will be pre- Not a Problem! This class is open share tips and tricks, recent research This program will cover how to use sented. The workshops emphasize to anyone who wants to create findings, and suggestions for man- raw honey, bee bread, pollen, royal hands on instruction in queen aging healthy honey bees. jelly and propolis. In the afternoon rearing methods, with lecture and beautiful beeswax crafts to gift or sell. get into bee venom accompanied by demonstrations. Students will be List of topics:

practical workshops treating various involved in various steps includ- Colony autopsy health conditions. ing, setting up cell builders, graft- About the Instructor; Drama queens ing, and establishing Petra Ahnert is the creative force Pheromones Participants gain a tremendous mating nuclei. behind Alchemy in artisan Feeding and nutrition amount of knowledge & confidence soap, body care, and home goods Wintering in utilizing the bee products to treat About the Instructor: business. After a serendipitous meet- Planning your beekeeping year their friends & family safely along Dr. Tom Repas MD owner and ing with a beekeeper at the library And more. with legal issues. operator of Canyon Rim Honey in 2002, Petra soon had a couple Requirements; Bees, in the Black Hills area of hives of her own and extra honey Must be a current You do not need to be a beekeeper South Dakota. Tom started keep- to sell. Of course, with the honey, beekeeper with basic beekeeping skills, to take this workshop. ing bee as a “kid”, is the fourth comes beeswax, too, so she sought have one or more hives and minimum generation family beekeeper now out ways to make good use of the of two years experience. About the Instructor: 35 years later Tom aspires to pro- wax she had on hand. Since that This is not a basic beginner program. duce small numbers of high- time, Petra has first looked to her Frederique Keller is a licensed acu- About the Instructors: puncturist, medical herbalist in a pri- quality queen bees which own life and the products she uses vate practice. She also incorporates are locally adapted to the condi- to replace them with items she Rebecca Masterman PhD first classical homeopathy and bee venom tions of western South Dakota could make herself with her extra worked for the UMN Bee Lab as an undergraduate in 1992, and returned in therapy as well as utilizes honey, pol- and surrounding regions. “We honey and bees wax. Eventually, don’t ship our bees south for the those products made their way into 2012 as the Bee Squad’s Associate Pro- len, propolis, royal jelly and bee gram Director and Coordinator. Becky winter or west for . the product line-up for bread where applicable. “I also work graduated from UMN Twin Cities with in a second office specializing in The queens we produce are those Beehive Alchemy a BA (major in history, minor in biolo- sports and spinal injuries. which have exactly the same char- gy) and then obtained a Ph.D. in Ento- I recently started teaching people acteristics that we ourselves desire “From candles to body care product mology studying the neuroethology of how to cook healthy, fantastic dishes in our bees: we want our bees to to art related projects. I cover it all“ hygienic behavior under the easily and with passion. be gentle, productive, mite toler- direction of Dr. Marla Spivak. Petra My husband and I have been bee- ant and winter hardy.” https://www.beehivealchemy.com/blog Ana Heck MMP learned how to keepers for 20 years and thoroughly -from-the-beehive/beeswax-alchemy keep bees in Nicaragua while appren- enjoy the apiculture and apitherapy https://canyonrimhoneybees.com/ ticing on an organic farm and working experiences it provides. with a women's beekeeping coopera- I have been a member of the Ameri- tive. She joined the University of Min- can Apitherapy Society since 1985 nesota Bee Squad in 2014, where she and never grow weary in the endeav- enjoys working with bees, beekeepers, or of sharing knowledge and educat- and the public. Heck manages , and provides hands-on and classroom ing people on the healing energy of training to beekeepers, and is involved the honeybees.” in managing Bee Squad outreach and Frederique is President of American Extension programs. She holds a Mas- Apitherapy Society nationally & ter’s degree in Public Policy from the internationally. University of Minnesota and a B.A. in http://www.apitherapy.org/ Philosophy and Spanish from Creighton University.

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