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Announcing! SOUTH FLORIDA BEE COLLEGE, Ft. Lauderdale, Fl August 16-17

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#1 ·
We (HBREL) are very excited to offer you yet another fabulous beekeeping experience. Please join us August 16-17 for the 1st Annual South Florida Bee College held in Ft. Lauderdale, Fl). It will be 2 days of hands-on beekeeping education brought to you from Florida’s finest beekeepers an researchers. You’ll learn more during these 2 days than you could all year. We are also offering Florida’s first Spanish-track beekeeping courses. We are creating most of our information in both Spanish and English.

Please visit our website for more information: http://entnemdept.ufl.edu/honeybee/extension/SFbee_college.shtml

And the registration page for prices and to register. http://southfloridabeecollege.eventbrite.com/

Please feel free to print, pass, facebook, tweet and email forward this message to whomever you wish!
I will release a full schedule in the next few weeks as well as updating the website daily as I gather more detailed information.


Thank you so much and we hope to see you there!!!

Happy Memorial Day Weekend!

Jeanette
Laboratory Manager/Extension Technician
Honey Bee Research and Extension Laboratory
Department of Entomology and Nematology
University of Florida
Bldg 970 Natural Area Drive
PO Box 110620
Gainesville, FL 32611-0620
Phone (352) 273-3932
Fax (352) 392 0190
www.ufhoneybee.com
www.afbee.com
@ UFhoneybeelab
@ UFNativeBuzz
 
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#3 ·
HBREL (UF’s Honey Bee Research and Extension Laboratory) would like to invite you to our 1st Annual South Florida Bee College(SFBC), August 16-17th at UF’s Fort Lauderdale Research and Extension Center (FLREC) in Davie, Florida. Read more about SFBC here: http://entnemdept.ufl.edu/honeybee/extension/SFbee_college.shtml

SFBC will satisfy nearly ALL your beekeeping needs! 2-days, 15 speakers, 50+ courses, with courses for the novice to the experienced. The full schedule is available here: http://entnemdept.ufl.edu/honeybee/extension/Bee College/SFBC/SFBC_esp.pdf with an important addition; David Westervelt Asst. Chief of Apiary for the Florida Dept. Of Ag will be speaking on the new apiary rules regarding zoning, pesticides, bee removal and more.

What’s included in the price? Coffee and morning and afternoon snacks provided by Sunshine Bakery http://sunshinebakeryflorida.com/, and Seriously Local produce http://oceandrive.com/dining/articles/food-awakening, lunch provided by Rinconcito Boliviano http://rinconcitoboliviano.com/ and a BBQ cookout cooked up fresh Friday night on location. We provide a printed program of all the lecture materials, so you won’t miss a thing. There will be goodie bags for everyone, a 21-class honey show open to all registrants (http://entnemdept.ufl.edu/honeybee/extension/Bee College/SFBC/Schedule .pdf) door prizes and open hive demo's all day! We’ve got smokers, hive tools, and bee suits/veils for everyone to get some real hands-on learning in the hive. Plus, we have vendors like South Florida Bee Supplies http://www.sflbeesupplies.com/ and D&J Apiary http://www.dandjapiary.com/about.html with beekeeping merchandise available to purchase.

For the first time we are offering a Spanish-track featuring Dr. Ernesto Guzman Head of the Honey Bee Research Center of U. Guelph Ontario Canada https://www.uoguelph.ca/ses/users/eguzman. We would love to see the commercial beekeepers of Florida utilize this one of a kind Spanish beekeeping education to the diverse community of field technicians they employ.

How to register: All must register online and submit payment, BUT did you know you can pay by check and save the credit card processing fee?

http://www.eventbrite.com/event/6807486375?ref=ebtnebregn

AFTER registering online via Eventbrite, DO NOT hit register; choose “SHOW OTHER PAYMENT OPTIONS”
Then “PAY OFFLINE”
You may Pay By Check:

Checks mailed must be post marked by August 10th, 2013.
Make Check Payable to: University of Florida
Mail to: University of Florida Bee College
PO Box 110620
Gainesville, Florida, 32611 USA
Check must be in USD.

Also, check out our FB event page https://www.facebook.com/events/674720865887015/, join and invite your friends. Once 100 people join, I will randomly choose a winner to receive a hive body courtesy of Mann Lake and ship it directly to you! I will do the same for every 100 people that join!

This is truly UF's beekeeping education at its finest! Please join us by registering for South Florida Bee College today.
 
#6 ·
We are close to a full house with South Florida Bee College, but we have a more room at the beautiful FLREC center to welcome guests, so we have extended registration! If you haven’t done so yet, there is still time. We have a packed schedule, great food, wonderful speakers and the weather is looking great. Please consider joining us for this 2-day all inclusive beekeeping event in Ft. Lauderdale Fl.

Info: http://entnemdept.ufl.edu/honeybee/extension/SFbee_college.shtml
Schedule: http://entnemdept.ufl.edu/honeybee/extension/Bee College/SFBC/SFBC_esp.pdf
Registration: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/6807486375?ref=ebtnebregn
Facebook Page (with chance for a give-away): https://www.facebook.com/events/674720865887015/?ref=br_tf

You can pay with a credit card online, or simply register and bring us a check at the door (hit other payment options).

We hope to see you there!

Jeanette

Laboratory Manager/Extension Technician
Honey Bee Research and Extension Laboratory
Department of Entomology and Nematology
University of Florida
Bldg 970 Natural Area Drive
PO Box 110620
Gainesville, FL 32611-0620
Phone (352) 273-3932
Fax (352) 392 0190
www.ufhoneybee.com
www.afbee.com
@ UFhoneybeelab
@ UFNativeBuzz
 
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