Beekeeper
Dancing Bee Gardens
State: VT
(w) (802) 349-4279
About
EDUCATION State University College at Buffalo Buffalo, NY
Bachelor of Arts in Broadcasting 1985
Brooklyn Technical High School Brooklyn, NY
Diploma in Math/Science 1981
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Dancing Bee Gardens Middlebury, VT
Beekeeper/Owner 1996-Present
Created a human-scale beekeeping business that supplies friends and neighbors with honey and value added bee products. Also sells nucleus colonies and provides bees for Vermont apple pollination in the spring. Since 2000, has successfully presented numerous workshops, lectures and courses on honey bees, organic beekeeping, and related topics throughout North America. Has become a popular and highly sought after speaker at both national and local.beekeeping conferences and events. Has maintained educational bee hives at the Middlebury College Organic Garden since 2005. Wrote first book to be published on the topic of Organic Beekeeping in 2007 (Natural Beekeeping). Published the second edition of Natural Beekeeping 2013. Co-authored The Land of Milk and Honey: A History of Vermont Beekeeping (2019). Has been a regular contributor to Bee Culture: The Magazine of American Beekeeping since 2007, and has written bee related articles for numerous publications including: Hobby Farms, The Farmer’s Almanac, The Australasian Beekeeper, and BEEkeeping: The First Three Years, among others.
Champlain Valley Apiaries Middlebury, VT
Beekeeper 1992-1998
Involved in all aspects including hive inspection, disease prevention and treatment, pollination services, honey harvesting, processing, packaging and shipping, equipment construction, nucleus colony production, beeswax rendering, and bee venom collection.
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS Member, Vermont Beekeeper's Association 1992-Present
President, Vermont Beekeepers Association 1997-2000
Member, Addison County Beekeeper’s Association 2016-Present
U.S. Delegate to Apimondia – International Beekeeping
Congress, Melburne, Australia Sept. 2007
Member, Northeast Organic Farming Association (NOFA-VT)
1996-Present
Member of the VT Pollinator Protection Committee Sept. 2016-
Feb. 2017
Bachelor of Arts in Broadcasting 1985
Brooklyn Technical High School Brooklyn, NY
Diploma in Math/Science 1981
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Dancing Bee Gardens Middlebury, VT
Beekeeper/Owner 1996-Present
Created a human-scale beekeeping business that supplies friends and neighbors with honey and value added bee products. Also sells nucleus colonies and provides bees for Vermont apple pollination in the spring. Since 2000, has successfully presented numerous workshops, lectures and courses on honey bees, organic beekeeping, and related topics throughout North America. Has become a popular and highly sought after speaker at both national and local.beekeeping conferences and events. Has maintained educational bee hives at the Middlebury College Organic Garden since 2005. Wrote first book to be published on the topic of Organic Beekeeping in 2007 (Natural Beekeeping). Published the second edition of Natural Beekeeping 2013. Co-authored The Land of Milk and Honey: A History of Vermont Beekeeping (2019). Has been a regular contributor to Bee Culture: The Magazine of American Beekeeping since 2007, and has written bee related articles for numerous publications including: Hobby Farms, The Farmer’s Almanac, The Australasian Beekeeper, and BEEkeeping: The First Three Years, among others.
Champlain Valley Apiaries Middlebury, VT
Beekeeper 1992-1998
Involved in all aspects including hive inspection, disease prevention and treatment, pollination services, honey harvesting, processing, packaging and shipping, equipment construction, nucleus colony production, beeswax rendering, and bee venom collection.
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS Member, Vermont Beekeeper's Association 1992-Present
President, Vermont Beekeepers Association 1997-2000
Member, Addison County Beekeeper’s Association 2016-Present
U.S. Delegate to Apimondia – International Beekeeping
Congress, Melburne, Australia Sept. 2007
Member, Northeast Organic Farming Association (NOFA-VT)
1996-Present
Member of the VT Pollinator Protection Committee Sept. 2016-
Feb. 2017
Projects
| FNE16-840 | Comparison of a commercial Varroa mite honeybee treatment with treatment-free Varroa management techniques |