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Beginning Beekeeping 3: Seasonal Transitions and Honey Bee Delivery Day (Apr/GGF)

San Francisco Zen Center (SFZC)

Saturday, April 21, 2012 at 9:00 AM (PDT)

Muir Beach, CA

Beginning Beekeeping 3: Seasonal Transitions and Honey Bee...

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General
This is ONLY for the THIRD workshop in the Series.
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SF Zen Center Member
(For the THIRD Workshop ONLY) Current members receive a 10% discount (all membership levels). No discount code is required. Questions? Call 888-743-9362 (toll free) or 415-475- 9362, or email membership@sfzc.org.
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Event Details

 
Saturday, April 21
9 am - 4 pm
Led by Alan Hawkins
 
In the Wheelwright Center
 
You should engage in and carry out this work with the vow to include one thousand or ten thousand lives in one day or one time.
 
Each season brings new challenges for honeybees and the beekeeper. We will learn about how to anticipate the seasons and their challenges. The following topics will be addressed: understanding the need for beekeeping rituals; observing and interpreting the signs that bees give us; understanding the weather through bee senses; becoming knowledgeable about bee population buildup; selecting the best location for your hive; dealing with swarming; being proactive about bee health; introducing a queen to a colony; enlarging the hive for honey production; inspecting a hive and diagnosing problems; deciding when to feed the hive; detecting honey flows. For those who ordered bee packages, they will be distributed at the end of the workshop and the instructor will demonstrate how to safely introduce them into the hive. Please bring a bee veil and other protective equipment.
 
Wear light colored clothing. A vegetarian lunch is included in the cost of registration.
 
 
Part 4: Harvesting Honey - Saturday, June 16
 
Maximum workshop size: 15 
 
Related Bio(s):
 
 
Alan Hawkins received the bodhisattva precepts (jukai) in 1992 and works with bees at Green Gulch and in Tracy. In 2011, he facilitated the establishing of hives and harvesting honey at City Center in San Francisco.
 

Member Discount

Current Zen Center members receive a 10% discount. For more information about membership, visit the membership section of our web site or email membership@sfzc.org.

To inquire, please email the Green Gulch Farm Front Office at ggfoffice@sfzc.org or call them at 415.383.3134 during office hours: 9:00am - 12:00pm and 1:30pm - 4:00pm Mon-Sat; 9.00 am to 10.00 am and 11.15 - 3.00 pm Sundays.


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  • For help completing registration, please call 888-743-9362 (toll free) or 415-475-9362

For more information, please visit the Green Gulch Farm web site or call:

  • 888-743-9362 (toll free) or
  • 415-475-9362 during office hours

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Green Gulch Farm
1601 Shoreline Highway
Muir Beach, CA 94965

Saturday, April 21, 2012 at 9:00 AM (PDT)


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San Francisco Zen Center (SFZC)

Established in 1962 by Shunryu Suzuki Roshi and his American students, San Francisco Zen Center is a Soto Zen Buddhist community with three practice places in the SF Bay Area: City Center, an urban temple in the heart of San Francisco; Green Gulch Farm, in Marin County, where fertile fields meet the ocean; and Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, the first Zen training monastery in the West, in the Ventana Wilderness inland from Big Sur. At San Francisco Zen Center, zazen, study, and work practice are available to a diverse population of students, visitors, lay people, priests, and monks. All are welcome!

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