If you are interested in signing up for any of these classes, please call the store at 415-744-1465 to sign up via credit card or come in person to pay via cash.  All classes have a maximum of 15 students, so seating is very limited.  Payment must be made in advance online.  All classes are held at the store at 3520 20th Street, San Francisco unless the class takes place “in the field”.  No refunds, exchanges, or rescheduling is possible.

Registration is required.  We need to prepare chairs and learning materials in advance, so no walk-ins, please! 

Honey Extraction - $30    Enroll Online

Saturday July 17th,  10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Taught by Cameo Wood and Karen Peteros

This class will cover the basics of honey extraction, and teach you to use a simple 2-frame hand-crank extractor of the type that we rent and sell here at the store. We will teach the extraction process and break it down into three components:

1. Separating the supers (boxes that contain the frames of honey)
2. Extracting the honey
3. bottling

This class is limited to 6 participants per session, and each person will leave with a small jar of honey. Expect to get very messy, so bring a change of clothes.

Beginning Beekeeping- $30    Enroll Online

Sunday, July 18th, 8:30 AM - 11:30 PM

Taught by Karen Peteros
3 hours: What you need to know about SF Beekeeping (But didn’t know who to ask).  If you ever thought you might want to take up beekeeping, but do not know what would be involved, this 2.5-hour class is for you.  Subjects we will cover include applicable SF and CA laws, cost$, time commitment, equipment options, and what other practicalities you need to consider if you are to fulfill responsibilities to yourself, others in your household and building, neighbors, nearby community and, importantly, the honeybees you would keep.  

Those who wish to further explore the possibility of taking up beekeeping are encouraged to take “Honeybee Biology”. 

About the Instructors:

Karen Peteros has been beekeeping for four years, simultaneously in various SF neighborhoods, in Oakland and in Southern Oregon.  During her beekeeping tenure, she has managed as many as 35 of her own colonies, she has raised some of her own queens and she develops nucleus colonies for sale.  Apart from her part-time work as an attorney, she has taught beekeeping classes in SF and in Oregon, and was the 2009 President of the San Francisco Beekeepers Association (SFBA).  As a SFBA member she has regularly mentored new and beginning SF beekeepers.