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Learn about Beekeeping at Garfield Farm Museum
Garfield Farm Museum is offering a Beekeeping
Lecture on Sunday, May 31st at 2pm. The “Bee Talk” will
cover the composition of a bee hive, maintaining a hive in Northern
Illinois, diseases that affect bees, what is honey and its properties,
rules and regulations concerning bees and beekeeping, and how
non-beekeepers can encourage and help the populations of honey bees in
North America. The talk will be given by museum volunteer, Laura
Andersen.
Laura has been the volunteer Beekeeper on
Garfield Farm for the last 10 years. She is a Master Gardener in
Florida and Illinois. Her interests are varied. She is a
hunter and a shooting instructor and also teaches cooking at Country
Garden Cuisine cooking school in Campton Hills where she resides with
her husband, Chris and their two sons, Peter and Matthew.
Garfield Farm Museum is located 5 miles west of
Geneva, IL, off of Illinois Rt. 38 on Garfield Road. Garfield Farm is a
380 acre historically intact former 1840s prairie farmstead and
teamster inn that is being restored as a working 1840s farm. There is a
$20 donation for the lecture that includes an introductory book on
beekeeping and refreshments. For other lecture information or to
R.S.V.P. please contact (630) 584-8485 or email at
info@garfieldfarm.org. Seats are limited, please respond promptly.