The PWRBA SARE Project
In 2008, our club (the PWRBA) won a SARE grant to “promote sustainable beekeeping through the local production of nucleus colonies (nucs) and local Queen production.
The PWRBA SARE project is now complete. The final report and appendices are below:
The guidelines and forms used in the study are below:
Our SARE project was also featured in the MSBA newsletter.
Our Sister SARE project in Maine
We also have what we love to affectionately refer to as our Sister SARE Project, A Comparison of Honey Bee Colony Strength and Survivability between Nucleus and Package Started Colonies, which is headed up by Erin Forbes of Overland Honey in Maine. Erin actually won two SARE projects. Her second project in 2010 was motivated by the terrible weather in 2009 skewing her results.
