The University of Montana Masters Beekeeping Program

Have a Joyous Holiday!

We're starting 2024 with the first public offerings of our new Introduction to Commercial Beekeeping classes.

Introduction to Large Scale Queen and Package Production
Open now, Runs from January 8-February 16.
For more info & registration: https://www.umt.edu/bee/commercial-queenrearing.php

* Having a Journeyman Certificate from our University of Montana Master Beekeeping program is a required pre-requisite for admission to this course.

Our first offering of our Introduction to Large Scale Honey, Pollen, and Wax Production will occur in March, 2024.

The Introduction to Large Scale Pollination will be offered in the summer of 2024.

We are in the third and final year of building these courses under a USDA-NIFA award. We filmed 4+ terrabytes of high resolution videos, working with some of the USA's best commercial beekeeping operations.

Each course offers step-by-step instruction based on the practices of some of the Best of the Best of our nation's commercial beekeepers.

Best to All for 2024

Commercial Queen Rearing and Package Production The Commercial Queen Rearing and Package Production course is a six-week program that teaches students how to rear honey bee queens for individual retail sales and package production. The course covers a range of topics, including queen and larval nutrition, techniques for grafting queens, mini-mati...