Beekeeper (Sleeping Bear Farms)

Hour-based occupation
Onet code: 11-9013.02

3

Years

972h

Related instruction

6000h

On-the-job training
Classroom Instruction Topics
  • Apprentice Beekeeping
  • Journeyman Beekeeping
  • Master Beekeeping
  • Basic CPR, First Aid
  • Excel for recordkeeping
  • Langstroth on the Hive & Honey Bee, Part 1 & 2
  • Langstroth on the Hive & Honey Bee, Part 1 & 2
  • Leadership Classes
  • Leadership Classes
  • Preparing bees for seasonal travel
  • Capturing wild swarms
  • Capturing wild swarms
  • Examining hives for defects
  • Examining hives for defects
  • Harvesting of honey
  • Harvesting of honey
  • Relocating hives for maximum crop impact
  • Relocating hives for maximum crop impact
  • Queen care & production
  • Queen care & production
  • Prevention of colony division
  • Prevention of colony division
  • Chemical properties of honey
  • Making mead & other honey products
  • Making mead & other honey products
  • History of beekeeping & Sleeping Bear
  • History of beekeeping & Sleeping Bear
  • Assembling of bee hives and equipment
  • Assembling of bee hives and equipment
  • ServSafe Food Handler
  • Building Teams That Work
  • Building Teams That Work
  • OSHA Outreach Training
  • OSHA Outreach Training
On-the-job Training
  • Managing bees for production of honey and pollination of crops
  • Assembly of bee hives and equipment
  • Capturing wild swarms
  • Moving hives and placing in crop gathering locations
  • Harvesting honey
  • Protecting hives from vermin - parasites and diseases
  • Sales of honey (arrangement, shipping, packaging)
  • Queen bee production
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