CSBA Summer Bee College
June 13-14, 2025
Rifle, Colorado
Featuring:
- A stellar lineup of speakers & hands-on sessions!
- Bonus: Catching up with old friends and making new ones!
- Skip the Sign in Table Line through Early Registering online ASAP (below!) will help us plan for enough food for everyone.
Schedule of Events:
Friday, June 13th – Social Hour, Possible at Pizza at Burning Mountain Pizza?:
- 5:00 p.m. 1817 Medicine Bow Ct, Silt, CO 81652 – RSVP when you register
Saturday, June 14th, [TBD, potentially Garfield County Public Library District, 207 East Avenue, Rifle, CO 81650 from 7:45am – 1pm MT, then to the Limbach/Maness Apiary for Hands-on Sessions!]
TENTATIVE Meeting Agenda (Subject to change):
- 7:15am – 7:45am – Registration – Secretary, Treasurer & Volunteers
- 7:45am – 8:00am – Welcome/Intro – CSBA President Kathy Gill
- 8:00am – 9:00am – Opening Presentation/Keynote
Dr. Jamie Ellis, University of Florida - 9:00am – 09:10am – Break
- 9:10am – 10:00am – CSBA Master Beekeeper Awards & Research Presentations: KT Thompson
- 10:00am – 10:40am – Presentation
- 10:40am – 10:50am – Break
- 10:50am – 11:20am – CSBA Business Meeting – CSBA President Kathy Gill
- 11:20am – 12:10pm – Lunch
- 12:10pm – 1:10pm – Closing Presentation
- 1:10pm – 1:40pm – Networking & Socialization / Meeting Room Clean-up & Breakdown
- 1:40pm – 2:00pm – Travel time to Hands-on Activities
If all goes well, we’ll have a beekeeping rodeo, learn queen handling skills through drone marking, learn how to test your bees for hygienic behavior, learn how to grade frames for nuc production, and take the apprentice field exam – if you are so inclined! - 2:00pm – 2:25pm – Hands-on Round 1
- 2:30pm – 2:55pm – Hands-on Round 2
- 3:00pm – 3:25pm – Hands-on Round 3
- 3:30pm – 3:55pm – Hands-on Round 4
- 4:00pm – 4:25pm – Hands-on Round 5
- 4:30pm – Official Summer Meeting Conclusion/stay for Apprentice Field Exams if yours is not complete
Cost of the Meeting/Presentations and Hands-on in the field instruction will be $35 for CSBA Members with non-Members at $45 (which will include a one-year Independent CSBA Membership).
For those attending in person that register before the deadline, the provided lunch will be sandwiches & chips catered by Capitol Deli, pending confirmation of catering order.
There will be NO camping at Ed Colby’s this year – please plan accordingly.
For those who prefer little a traditional roof over your head, our Host hotel is the LaQuinta By Wyndam Rifle
600 Wapiti Court
Rifle CO 81650
970-361-3390 When prompted (dial 0 to get the front desk)
Registration (Online Through June 10
and in person until meeting is called to order)
Early Bird Registration Deadline (for fast-pass check in): May 10th
General Registration Deadline (to be included in the catering order for lunch): May 18th
(The catering deadline if you want a lunch ticket is May 18th!)
Late Registration will be accepted until the meeting is called to order the morning of June 14th.
The Colorado Beekeepers Association shall be composed of Beekeepers of the State of Colorado and those interested in allied industries for the purpose of producing better beekeeping methods, better beekeepers, and a more unified system of apicultural work in Colorado.