Free Beginner Beekeeping Class
Saturday, March 21st 3pm
Speaker: James Lee
James Lee is the President of the Sustainable Beekeepers Guild of Michigan, a virtual educational organization with over 700 local and international members. He is the founder of the Northern Queen Initiative, and owner of James Lees Bees in Romulus Michigan, where he lives with his wife Rachel and their 5 children.
James manages 60-100 colonies pursuing sustainability in apiculture and produces nucs and queens for sale focusing on hardy Northern climate survivors selected for mite-resistance.
The guild focuses on education, mentoring, and support of hobbyists and sideliners to propagate local sustainable survivor honey bee genetics and improved drone breeding populations that complement chemical-free and survival queen rearing practices.
The SBGMI is open to beekeepers, hobbyists, sideliners, and the rest, and primarily discourages prophylactic use of chemical treatments and defers to physical or mechanical manipulations and interventions first.
The primary objective is to foster and develop regions of beekeepers focused on raising, exchanging, and utilizing local resource, with the ultimate end resulting in a culture striving to increase local colony resilience to pathogens, diseases, and reduce the risk and occurrence of treatment resistance in Varroa destructor Mites and other honey bee maladies.
This is one of the most important aspects to learn in beekeeping that you do not want to miss.
Come in to Napoleon Bee Supply or call to reserve your seat.
(517) 499-0439
6800 Brooklyn Rd
Napoleon, MI 49261
RSVP 3/21 bee class
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RSVP x 1 for James Lee 3/21/26
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Sara you are on this Saturdays class list for 2. Thank you!