Honey Bee Seminar in Franklin Township

March 17, 2014

The Franklin Township Environmental Commission is pleased to have Tim Schuler, the New Jersey State Apiarist from NJ New Jersey Department of Agriculture giving a Honey Bees presentation in the Municipal Council chambers on March 17th at 7PM.  Tim is a 1982 graduate of Delaware Valley College in Doylestown Pa.  He was involved for 18 years in regulatory animal health with the New Jersey Department of Agriculture Division of Animal Health.  During this time he began a part time beekeeping business, Schuler’s Bees, which he still maintains as a sideline business that provides pollination service to New Jersey fruit and vegetable growers and also produces New Jersey wild flower honey for sale.  In 2007 Tim took the position of State Apiarist with the New Jersey Department of Agriculture Division of Plant Industry.  He is the primary person responsible for the health of honey bees in NJ.  Tim has worked with beekeepers in New Jersey, Haiti and Malawi in Africa, and he teaches a semester long apiculture class at Rutgers University.  Every year Tim inspects several thousand honey bee colonies for health and strength.  Tim’s presentation will include challenges facing honey bees and bee keepers including bees dying off, how honey is made, and other interesting topics.  There will be time for questions during the presentation.  

For more information see the Bee Inspection portion of the NJ Department of Agriculture website