Erin MacGregor-Forbes is an EAS certified Master Beekeeper, past Chairman of the Eastern Apicultural Society and the Chief Financial and Operating Officer at the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens.  She manages about 150 colonies near her home in  Portland Maine as Overland Apiaires. Erin speaks nationally on a variety of beekeeping topics particularly focused on small and mid-scale sustainable beekeeping practices. Erin’s teaches practical and sustainable colony management, IPM strategies, and…See More

Saturday workshop: "first"/basic hive set up explaining sizes - deep vs medium, 8 or 10 frame vs nuc, bee space, how to use hive tool correctly, how to light your smoker... maybe even includes a demonstration of installing new bees into a nuc or transferring a mature nuc/swarm into a full size hive (tbd)See More