Well, the workshop was a great success even though it started off all wrong. As the chairman of the workshop committee, I was responsible for all the wrongs that happened. All the rights were given to all my helpers and co members of the committee. There were about 69 people in attendance.

To start off, I forgot the schedule of the classes. We had to just start off with the pledge and invocation and then changed to a mass classroom at the beginning. By the time that was over, my wife arrived with the schedule and we just continued on as planned and caught up as we progressed on through the day.

The people were very happy with what was taught and were happy with the program. Along with the classes, we had food catered by the FFA students and a yard sale of extracting and hive equipment. At the end of the program, we had a drawing just for the preregistered. The winner received his admission fees returned.

Most of the people from out of area and state asked to be included in the notification of the next year’s workshop.

We have already contacted some of the speakers for next year. Hopefully, we will be able to get advertising into several bee magazines and papers for next year. If you would like to be included for next year, you can contact me on this blog’s comment section.

By this time in northern Florida and southern Alabama and Georgia, the spring honey flow is underway. I hope you were ready. If you have any unfinished cleaning of boxes and frames, then you need to do that now. Time to get ready to check the hives for high thresholds of Varroa Mites and Small Hive Beetles.