Program Description
Commercial Beekeeper students 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.
