This year (2026) we will not offer the full two-month long Queen Rearing Workshop of the past three years due to a number of considerations, including poor spring weather and the apiary manager recovering from knee surgery. Instead, SnoKing will demo the Doolittle and Nicot cassette methods and setting up cell builders and mating nucs after July 4th. Watch the Calendar or newsletters for dates and times or email eliochel@snokingbka.org for the dates an times of the mini-workshops. Next year, the full format workshop will start after July 4th, 2027 at the Maltby Apiary, 15324 228th ST SE, Snohomish, WA 98296.

2026 Apiary class sessions will be held most Saturdays through August 15th and apiary work sessions will be on Wednesdays through August 18, 2026. 2025 Queen Rearing Workshop documents are shown here to show the scope and duration of a full queen rearing workshop.