Agriculture & Outdoors

Guillemots, porpoises and molas, oh my! Eagles, barnacles and whales, too! 

Bring your questions, sightings, experiences and curiosity to this informal class focusing on wildlife that lives in or along coastal waters.  We'll talk about everything from birds to marine mammals, fish to crustaceans, learn about their lives, including where, when and why you can see them, as well as changes over time and today.  This is a live online class. 

Photograph taken off Grand Manan Banks by Ruth Hill.

Make up class, if needed, 12/06/21.

This class is designed to look in more detail at key aspects of beekeeping, particularly helpful to those who wish to run several hives and get the most out of them. The course is a good follow-on from the beginner’s course.  Building-up hive strength, swarm prevention, splitting hives, making nucs, disease prevention, feral colony relocation, and honey production are all covered.  This is a live online class.

Makeup class, if needed, 11/22/21.

Peter Cowin, a/k/a the Bee Whisperer, started keeping bees in the 1970s at the age of 11, and now tends to more than 130 colonies.  He is past President of Penobscot County Beekeepers Association and mentor to many local beekeepers.  Peter runs a beekeeping supply store in Hampden, Maine.  He sells packaged bees and produces queens and makes hundreds of nucleus colonies for sale each year.  His bees produce thousands of pounds of honey per year sold under the Bee Whisperer name.  Peter has been teaching beekeeping at his honey farm and for Adult Ed for more than nine years.

This class is designed to stimulate interest and questions about beekeeping as a hobby or to help with pollination. 

We will cover what is needed, where to locate bee hives, where to buy them, what it costs and how to care for bees so they survive the winter. Many join the class because they are aware of the huge importance and decline of honeybees and other pollinators and just want to help.

Learn about the fascinating hobby of beekeeping, pollinate your garden and grow your own honey! This is a live online class.

Makeup class 10/25/2021.

Peter Cowin, a/k/a the Bee Whisperer, started keeping bees in the 1970s at the age of 11, and now tends to more than 130 colonies.  He is past President of Penobscot County Beekeepers Association and mentor to many local beekeepers.  Peter runs a beekeeping supply store in Hampden, Maine.  He sells packaged bees and produces queens and makes hundreds of nucleus colonies for sale each year.  His bees produce thousands of pounds of honey per year sold under the Bee Whisperer name.  Peter has been teaching beekeeping at his honey farm and for Adult Ed for more than eight years.

(10/25/2021 Make up date, if needed)