Commercial Beekeeping in Niagara college, Canada

Commercial Beekeeping in Niagara college

Do you dream of working outdoors while contributing to the sustainability of one of the most important parts of our natural food system – the pollinator?

As a commercial beekeeper you will help meet the expected demand for pollination services by various agricultural crops in Canada and around the world.

Highlights

• Reflects Niagara College’s holistic approach to agri-food and commitment to helping meet the global demand for thousands of commercial beekeepers over the next decade including the need for over 3,000 commercial beekeepers across Canada by 2023.

• Eastern Canada’s first-ever Commercial Beekeeping program.

• Applied learning experiences via an on-campus apiary with 30 actively managed hives.

• Three-semester program coincides with the normal annual lifecycle of a honey bee.

• Reflective of a provincial focus on pollinator health strategies with an aim to create a highly skilled labour force to care for managed pollinators as wild pollinators continue to decline globally.

• Engaged Program Advisory Committee with representatives from sectors involved in the planning, implementation, regulation and promotion of ecological restoration activities.

Our Niagara-on-the-Lake campus is the first postsecondary institution in Canada to be recognized as a Certified Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary.

Career Opportunities

• Apiarist
• Apiary labourer, manager or technician
• Honey and beehive-related product production
• Honey production supervisor
• Owner/operator – commercial beekeeping
• Pollination services
• Seasonal beekeeper

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