SCHOOL PROGRAMS

MARIN BEE COMPANY
Changing the World, One Bee at a Time

(415) 235-6424

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EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS AND ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDSHIP

EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS FOR SCHOOLS, NON PROFITS
AND THE COMMUNITY!

Our philanthropic educational program for schools and non profits is very unique. We aim to help organizations embody a holistic approach to educating people by weaving together organizations, community, an interdisciplinary curriculum, social awareness, environmental stewardship and entrepreneurship through fundraising. We will individually design a program to fit your needs and offer a variety of activities which can be mixed and matched. This list is only a sample of what we can offer:

Assemblies/Classroom Presentations can include:

Observation hive to get a close up look at bees
Power Point presentation
Bee keeping equipment for hands on fun
Honey comb and wax to touch and feel
Honey harvesting and jarring your own raw honey
We will include a variety of educational material such as posters and hand outs for students

Lessons for Students

Our program director, Debra Tomaszewski, former teacher and professor, will work individually with your classroom or science teacher to help them incorporate bee keeping into their curriculum/lessons. We have a wide variety of resources available.

Apprentice Program for Parents,

Teachers and/or Students

We train apprentices to care for their bee hives through a shadow program, which teaches the apprentice all aspects of care for a one year cycle. The tasks include installing bees, feeding and maintaining the hive, harvesting honey, checking the health of the hive and looking for disease.

Installing and Setting up
the Bee Hive

Bee hive installation can occur on a special day or as a special event. A weekend might be a perfect time to offer a voluntary opportunity for parents and students to witness how a bee hive is set

up and started.

Honey Harvest Workshop
and Fund Raiser

Spinning honey occurs twice a year if the hive is strong, usually in June and September. Honey spinning workshops can be part of a larger celebration, like a school wide fair or event to kick off the year or to end the year with something special. The honey can be jarred and sold as a fund raiser. Most hives will produce 40-50 pounds of honey per super. Usually 2 supers can be placed on each hive, sometimes more if the nectar is flowing and the bees are strong. So if there are 2 hives at your location, they can produce up to 200 pounds of honey per harvest. That’s about 350- 400, 8 oz jars of honey

Become Part of a Research Project

We are always on the look out to be involved with cutting edge research to study the habits of bees and to help solve the mysterious reason behind Sudden Colony Collapse. We are currently teaming up with NASA and Google in the Honey BeeNet Study aimed at understanding the timing of plant and animal life cycle events (phenology) in the world.

Please contact us or call Debra Tomaszewski, program director@ 415-235-8959,
to become part of our philanthropic environmental stewardship program.

We offer educational programs for schools and non-profits at low or no-cost.