a potluck and pay what you can event.
Saturday March 17th, 2012
5:00pm - 9:00pm
Calgary Canoe Club, 6446 Crowchild Trail SW
Pay what you want
Please bring a potluck item and your own coffee/tea mug
The goal of the event is the same as before:
Kirk Andersons presentation begins with a rich storytelling of the birth and life of Backwards Beekeepers in Los Angeles, and more recently NYC, and all the projects it has inspired over the years. Kirks great sense of humor mixes in anecdotes, principles of practice as a community group, and examples of success in practice through-out the presentation. Backwards Beekeepers offering of educational opportunities, mentorship and collaboration with families and community groups has progressed in to becoming one of the largest urban beekeeping communities in North America. Kirk will share stories of these projects by sharing photos and videos highlighting projects taken on by different members of the LA beekeeping community. Eliese Watson of Apiaries and Bees for Communities will share her template, 6 Steps to Building the Hive Mentality. These steps will aid in guiding the goals of the conversation. By now everyone’s imaginations are stimulated and projects for their own communities start forming. People are free to ask questions, and tangents are very likely realized by the end of the seminar.
Like a magic switch is turned on, people’s inner ‘villagers’ come alive and the best thing to do here is to put them into small groups and stick crayons in their hands!
There are a number of simple exercises we can offer but at this point people generally know what they want to do and self-govern. We finish things off with some action planning and next steps.
The goal of this event is to have the community of beekeepers formulate a plan for swarm catching throughout the summer coordinated with the advice of Kirks experience. The more people who attend the better! Trust Me! from Info@backyardbees.ca
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