This is five-day workshop is one of four modules of our Spikenard Biodynamic Beekeeping Training (SBBT). It can be taken as part of the full training or as a stand-alone workshop experience.
All students and friends of Spikenard are invited to join in three days of gratitude and celebration of the bees, the landscape, and our own inner transformation. This is a time we get to know and work with the hives from the periphery through three days of special lectures and activities, art and music making, and tending of sanctuary land, the "body" of the beehive.
In this workshop we will look at what needs to be done in the fall in order to let the hives go into the winter as strong and healthy as possible, and also take a look at the winter and early spring months, probably the most difficult time of the year for the bees. We will take a closer look at the various illnesses and probable causes, as well as share our methods of hive feeding, wrapping, and consolidation for best possible over-wintering success.
Join us for the Annual Biodynamic Conference, October 3-5, 2025, Red Boiling Springs, Tennessee
Location: Spikenard Honeybee Sanctuary
Time: 9:00 am – 5:00 pm daily
Suggestions for a successful overwintering of hives and new start in the spring
During this time of contraction, we will learn everything we need to know to support the hive organism in forming a healthy winter cluster and all the wonderful ways we can support the bees to make it strongly through the winter.
Spikenard Honeybee Sanctuary
Location: Spikenard Honeybee Sanctuary
Times: 9:00 am – 5:00 pm daily
The plant medicines that are available for the bees this time of the year make our gardens look like a rainbow, both from the flowers and all the native insects!
Live Music with Bee Taylor, Lady Couch, Cody Brooks & Co, Howling Brothers, Sugar Lime Blues and more.
SUMMER SOLSTICE CELEBRATION
MUSIC FESTIVAL & CAMPOUT
Long Hungry Creek Farm | 2245 Heady Ridge Rd | Red Boiling Springs, TN
June 19 – 22, 2025
From Spikenard Farm Honeybee Sanctuary :
Beholding the Stars
$5.00 – $150.00
Time: 7:30 – 8:30 pm
Our new study group will meet monthly on Zoom at 7:30 pm EST on the New Moon evenings of 2025, starting on March 29th.
(See all other dates in description below)
From Spikenard Farm Honeybee Sanctuary :
Beholding the Stars
$5.00 – $150.00
Time: 7:30 – 8:30 pm
Our new study group will meet monthly on Zoom at 7:30 pm EST on the New Moon evenings of 2025, starting on March 29th.
(See all other dates in description below)
From Spikenard Farm Honeybee Sanctuary :
Beholding the Stars
$5.00 – $150.00
Time: 7:30 – 8:30 pm
Our new study group will meet monthly on Zoom at 7:30 pm EST on the New Moon evenings of 2025, starting on March 29th.
(See all other dates in description below)
