Commercial Beekeeping in Niagara College, Canada

Commercial Beekeeping in Niagara College

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.

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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