Beginning Beekeeping: Extracting Honey

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Date:

Saturday, June 06, 2009

Time:

9:00 AM - 3:00 PM

Event Type:

Class/Workshop

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Location Details:

Green Gulch Farm
1601 Shoreline Highway
Muir Beach, CA 94965
Phone: (415) 383.3134

Green Gulch Farm & Zen Center Beginning Beekeeping

Workshop participants will get hands-on experience harvesting the Green Gulch honey crop. Steps include removing honey from the bee colonies, using equipment to crush and strain the honey, and bottling honey. Plans for a simple honey extractor will be distributed. Anyone may attend (Parts I and II not required), and children are welcome. Lunch is included in the cost of the workshop. All workshop participants will take home a bottle of freshly extracted honey. Meets in small dining room.

Fee: $50, $45 members, $30 limited income

NOTE: Part IV of the series will be on Saturday, July 25.

Please call the Green Gulch front office at 415.383.3134 to register.

Related Bio(s): Alan Hawkins Alan Hawkins received the bodhisattva precepts (jukai) in 1992 and works with bees at Green Gulch and in Tracy.

For more information: http://www.sfzc.org/ggf/display.asp?catid=...

Added to the calendar on Fri, Mar 27, 2009 11:46AM

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