Keeping a colony or two of honeybees in your backyard can supply you with plenty of honey for family and friends, as well as increase your garden's productivity, by ensuring adequate pollination. The Back Yard Beekeepers Association is offering a four-session course on honeybees in Weston at Norfield Grange.
Time:
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Location:
Norfield Grange Hall 12 Goodhill Road Weston CT 06883
A number of producers, agricultural associations, corporations, students and government organizations involved in agriculture are expected to participate.
Mr. Bill Duesing, the Executive Director of the Connecticut chapter of the Northeast Organic Farming Association of Connecticut, will speak about the need to think ecologically about our food supply.
The Nature Conservancy's Saugatuck River Watershed Partnership (SRWP) will conduct a free public workshop on Goose Population Stabilization, to be led by Denise Savageau, conservation director for the Town of Greenwich, at Norfield Grange.