February 1, 2019 9:00 AM - February 1, 2019 9:00 AM
South Broadway Cultural Center- 1025 Broadway SE, Albuquerque, NM 87102

Join us for an afternoon with beekeeper, author, and teacher Michael Bush. Mr. Bush proposes a series of talks, tentatively titled:

-Natural Cell Size for Varroa Control

-Swarm Prevention and Splits

-Top Bar Hives, Pros and Cons

Mr. Bush will be selling and signing his book, The Practical Beekeeper, Beekeeping Naturally, developed from his popular website http://www.bushfarms.com/bees.htm

Michael will be joined by Steve Baca, Lu Lu Sage, Ken Sexton, Judith Phillips, Wes Brittenham, Sue George, Tina Sebestyen, and others.

Michael Bush is one of the leading proponents of treatment free beekeeping. He has been keeping bees since the mid 70s, usually from two to seven hives up until the year 2000. Varroa forced more experimentation which required more hives and the number has grown steadily over the years. By 2008 it was about 200 hives. He is active on many of the Beekeeping forums with last count at more than 50,000 posts between all of them. He has had an eclectic set of careers from printing and graphic arts, to construction to computer programming.

Free for NMBKA members, $30 for non-members