Several upcoming workshops and events related to bees are scheduled throughout 2025, including hands-on courses, conferences, festivals, and online educational opportunities.
Key options include:
- Beekeeping Workshops at Bee Wise Farms (Newberry, MI): Monthly in-person workshops covering colony management, mite monitoring, honey harvesting, and overwintering. Sessions run from May to October 2025, each focusing on a seasonal topic. $35 per session, free for certain course participants.[1]
- Bridgetown Bees Classes (Portland, OR): Beginning beekeeping workshops on June 27–28 and September 26–27, 2025, at Portland Community College. $65, registration opens in August.[2]
- Natural Beekeeping Workshop (Cabool, MO): Two-day event on September 20–21, 2025, teaching natural approaches to beekeeping. Fee: $695 for one person or $545 each for groups.[3]
- Vancouver Bee Project Events (Vancouver, WA):
- 2nd Annual Pollinator Festival: June 21, 2025, at Marshall Park, features keynote speakers and pollinator celebration activities.
- Pollinator Week BioBlitz: June 16–22, 2025, for community pollinator observation and science.
- Pollinator Patch workshops (dates to be announced), focusing on habitat conversion for pollinators.[4]
- Mason Bee Workshop (Vancouver, WA): March 8, 2025, at Clark College by Columbia Land Trust, with take-home mason bee starter colonies.[5]
- The Bee Supply Beginning Beekeeping Classes (TX locations): Five-hour hands-on classes (multiple dates/locations throughout 2025), featuring beeyard training. Fulfills Texas Master Beekeeper requirements.[6]
- University of Montana Online Beekeeping Courses: Progressive online certificate programs (apprentice, journeyman, master), natural beekeeping course August 11–September 12, 2025, and summer field days in August.[7]
- American Beekeeping Federation 2025 Conference (Reno, NV): January 7–11, 2025, with keynote speakers and major networking for beekeepers.[8]
- Eastern Apicultural Society Annual Meeting (Cherry Hill, NJ): July 27–August 1, 2025, with workshops, master beekeeper programs, and lectures.[9]
- Pollinator Week National Initiatives (June 16–22, 2025): Planting for pollinators, online bee and butterfly ID workshops, and community science events—held throughout the US.[10]
Most events require advance registration, and some have limited space.
For more details and up-to-date schedules, visit the respective organizers’ websites or contact them directly.
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- https://www.beewisefarms.com/products/beekeeping-workshops
- http://www.bridgetownbees.com/classes
- https://horizontalhive.com/natural-beekeeping-conference/seminar-workshop-course.shtml
- https://vancouverbeeproject.org/events-2-1
- https://www.columbialandtrust.org/mason-bee-workshop-march-8-2025/
- https://thebeesupply.com/products/2025-beginning-beekeeping-class
- https://www.umt.edu/bee/
- https://abfnet.org/2025-abf-conference/
- https://easternapiculture.org
- https://www.pollinator.org/pollinator-week