The Beekeeper Plan; Lessons from the Commercial Beekeeping Industry

Presenter: Anne Marie Fauvel, HABA past president

Once November rolls around, you have harvested honey, checked your Varroa loads, treated, and checked again, made a plan for winterizing, and have little left to do to button up the hive for the winter. November is when the next beekeeping season truly starts. We will look ahead at what you can do in November to get ahead for the next season and plan your best year yet!

Anne Marie started beekeeping right here in West Michigan back in 2010. She liked it so much, that she quit her job at GVSU and went to work for the Bee Informed Partnership where she learned about the commercial beekeeping industry, monitoring bee health, and performing real-world applied trials throughout the U.S. Today, Anne Marie is the program director for the American Honey Producers Association and continue to conduct scientific studies through her own Honey Bee Vitality, LLC and collaborations with other academic institutions in the U.S.

Anne Marie has served on HABA’s board of directors as well as our past president.

-No December meeting-