Workshops consist of four sessions.  Each session will be scheduled on a Saturday or Sunday. 

•  introduction to the Cloake Board method 
• Learn how Brother Adam, Jay Smith and Michael Palmer all used the same technique to start queen cells 
• Snelgrove board method
• How to make up a mating nuc with live bees and install a queen cell 
• Identify the proper size larvae / age 
• You graft with instruction

•  Students will bring a mating nuc to class, inspect the mating nuc,  and install a queen cell  
• Cloake board method 
• Snelgrove board techniques 
• You graft with instruction

• Setting up a cell starter (Adam-Smith-Palmer) 
• C.C. Miller method 
• Cell punch technique 
• Cloake board review 
• Student nuc inspections  - queen emergence  - finding eggs  

                                                            - marking the queen - evaluate laying pattern 

10:00 am - 2:00 pm 

• Discuss Gilbert Doolittle Method
• C.C. Miller
• Liquid Nitrogen Hygienic test
• Record keeping
• Take Home your New Queen and NUC