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Journeyman Beekeeper Week Seven
Chapter 5 – Selling Honey Bees, Products and Services (pp. 79-94)
This chapter is a review of the diverse pool of products available for beekeepers to manufacture, package or provide for a return on their investment. Most beekeepers extract a few frames of honey and using it for gifts at Christmas or special occasions, but there are those who have an excess of product or are past the hobbyist stage and have enough harvested material to apply it to a product line to pay for their beekeeping experience. The transition to “side-liner or commercial” level gives the producer time to survey their market demographics, investigate usable recipes and designs for products and develop a branding program under which to sell their products. Most commercial beekeepers focus on products like queens, nucs, or pollination services, and do extracted honey as by-product sales in the slow season. Although the value-added products such as honey bring a higher price point, they are much more labor intensive, and most commercial operators don’t have the time to spend on them. This tends to leave the value-added product lines for the side-liners (those with less than 300 colonies).
Chapter Five Reading
There is no video for this chapter as it is basically a review of honey bees and the products they product. Please read this chapter and be prepared to take a check on learning test Saturday September 10.
Chapter 10 – Pests and DiseasesLaws and Regulations (pp. 142-156)
This chapter introduces commonly used legal definitions for beekeeping necessary for sideliner and commercial beekeepers and for those who are interested in the possibility of growing their apiary beyond that of a hobbyist or backyard beekeeper. Also included are citations of the laws, codes, and regulations related to anyone keeping, transporting and selling bee-produced products; as well as discussing relevant sections of the Revised Code of Washington (RCW) and state regulations under the Washington Administrative Code (WAC). This includes how the Washington State Department of Agriculture (WSDA) is involved with oversight of the Apiaries Act, Honey Bee Commission, Bee Pests, Honey Act, and Washington Food Processing Act. Both the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) oversee aspects of honey bees and honey regulation throughout the United States through code enforcement of federal laws, guidelines and regulations, including parts of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR). In no means is this chapter meant to be inclusive and care must be taken to verify current regulations for revisions and changes. NOTE: Cities and counties also have zoning and other regulations which affect placement and numbers of hives. It is important to check for specific local county/city ordinances that might apply.
Chapter Ten Videos
Chapter 10 – Laws and Regulations
Please read chapter 10 as well as review the video for this chapter. Please feel free to leave comments or ask questions during the Q&A time on the Zoom Meeting. The test will be opened following the review.
Chapter Review
There will be a chapter review starting at 6:30 pm April16, 2024.
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Chapter Test
You will have 2 hours to complete the week 7 Journeyman test and a score of at least 80% must be obtained to pass. Click the link below to start the test. After you receive your test scores we may have to manually correct some questions.
The Final Exam will open on April 16, 2024 at 7:30 pm and Close April 18, 2024