I am currently working up the plans of 2019, both beekeeping classes and queen breeding. We have started evaluating a number of queen stocks and started over 100 nucs for overwintering evaluation. We are going to be breeding from the survivors and will try to enter into winter 2019-2020 with over 200 nucs with survivors being offered for sale in spring 2020. A limited number of queen cells and mated queens should be available as excess from the nuc production in 2019.
As I am retired and my wife and I plan on doing a significant amount of travel and camping, queen cells will only be offered once a month on the second Friday/Saturday after the first Wednesday of the month by reservation only, May through July ($12/ or $10/ in batches of 10 or more). Queens will be available at the same time at standard rate of $30 or as emergency pulls if I am available at a higher rate of $38.
Class schedules are being planned so that they fit in with our traveling and the queen grafting schedule..