Dean Stiglitz, Beekeeper, Laurie Herboldsheimer, Beekeeper
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
Join the authors of The Complete Idiot's Guide to Beekeeping (Dean Stiglitz and Laurie Herboldsheimer) for three Monday lectures on beekeeping: Treatment Free Beekeeping, Microbial Culture of the Beehive, and Urban Beekeeping. Laurie and Dean live in Leominster, Massachusetts (birthplace of Johnny Appleseed), where they breed and keep bees, market treatment free honey, run beekeeping conferences and classes, write and do research. They are active in the Worcester County Beekeepers Association, travel around the country speaking about treatment free beekeeping and the importance of the microbial environment in the beehive. Golden Rule Honey, LLC, is their honey business, which maintains a certified food production facility (located in the building where the pnk plastic lawn flamingo was born), where they package, distribute, and retail honey from treatment free beekeeping operations, and produce The Queen of Chocolate, a unique cocoa mix free of dairy products and sweetened only with honey.
Sponsor(s): Mechanical Engineering
Contact: Tony Pulsone, pulsone@mit.edu
| Jan/07 | Mon | 03:00PM-04:00PM | 4-149 |
A lot of decisions on equipment or methods, depend on your personal philosophy of life and your personal philosophy of beekeeeping. Some people have more faith in Nature to work things out, while some are more interested in keeping their bees healthy with chemicals and treatments. Learn the advantages and disadvantages of treatment free beekeeping.
Dean Stiglitz - Beekeeper, Laurie Herboldsheimer - Beekeeper
| Jan/14 | Mon | 03:00PM-04:00PM | 4-149 |
Before the advent of DNA sequencing technology, the honeybee (Apis Melifera) was the second most studied animal on earth. However, even with millennia of beekeeping, study and observation, the microbial culture of the beehive is only recently beginnig to be understood. This lecture will summarize some of the recent studies, and the importance of maintaining the microbial culture of the beehive.
Dean Stiglitz - Beekeeper, Laurie Herboldsheimer - Beekeeper
| Jan/28 | Mon | 03:00PM-04:00PM | 4-149 |
Urban Beekeeping presents special challenges, and advantages to that of rural or suburban environments. Learn some of the ins-and-outs of keeping bees in your backyard, on your porch, or up on the roof.
Dean Stiglitz - Beekeeper, Laurie Herboldsheimer - Beekeeper