Fran Freeman Email & Phone Number

Toronto, Canada Area

Lead beekeeper at apiaries at Humber Arboretum, Humber College North and Lakeshore campuses. Responsible for maintenance and care of honeybees at all three locations using ecologically sustainable and organic practices. Beekeeping instructor. As HIVE CONSCIOUSNESS, teach/mentor/speak: from talks on the general subject of honey bees and native bees to workshops on urban beekeeping to hands-on visits to the beeyard.As STICKY BEES URBAN HONEY, raise healthy bees and make raw, unfiltered honey and infused honeys available. Sustainable, small-batch harvesting, no harvest the first year, no antibiotics, no synthetic chemicals, not sugar fed. Good honey. Also body care products (lip balms, healing salves, lotions), candles and beeswax melts.

Toronto

Developed and teach 45-hour certificate course "Sustainable Urban Beekeeping Using Ecological Management Practices", a combination of online presentations, hands-on workshops and bee yard experience delivered in conjunction with the Centre for Urban Ecology at Humber Arboretum & Humber College. Also can offer beekeeping instruction and support virtually or in your own bee yard.Some Presentations2023 Guelph Organic Conference "Towards Resilient Bees in a Time of Climate Emergency"2020Guelph Organic Conference "Building Resilience in Bees with Medicinal Plants"2019Apimondia Int'l Conference "Healing Plants for Self-Medicating Bees"Guelph Organic Conference "Healing Plants for Self-Medicating Bees"2018Urban Land Institute symposium, The New Wealth is Health: Realigning our Cities, "Sustainable Urban Beekeeping" 2017Mead-making @ The DepanneurGuelph Organic Conference "Pests, Pathogens & Predators: IPM for the Small Apiary"2016"Healing Bee-ings" at Humber CollegeMead-making @ The Depanneur, Farmers Pantry, & Pitchfork Co.Guelph Organic Conference "Becoming a Sustainable Urban Beekeeper Using Organic Management"2015 art installation at OCADU Nuit Blanche, 401 Richmond, Bee Level, "Arc-Hive"Gibson House Historical Museum, Toronto Sustainable Urban BeekeepingAug #2Hot4Kitchen, Regent Park, TorontoEastern Apicultural Society Conference, Guelph, "Sustainable Urban Beekeeping""Healing Bee-ings", Wychwood Barns, Toronto on Repairing our Relationship with BeesMead-Making @ Depanneur Green Living Show, panel "Importance of Bees'" Seedy Sunday "City Bees', Etobicoke Guelph Organic Conference "Habitats and Environments of Urban Pollinators"2014 Miel Montreal Urban Beekeeping conferenceGuelph Organic Conference "A, Bee, Cs of Urban Beekeeping'​: urban apiary models (co-op, CSA and Partnerships)" 2013 Guelph Organic Conference "Pollinating the World"

Toronto

raw and unfiltered honey, or infused, using organic saffron, or org chilies, or org cinnamon, or rose petals, or fleur de selvarious sizes available, 125-500 g jarsmeadow flower, wetland and riparian forage, mixed forest nectars from Oxbow apiary located near West Humber river, Toronto no antibiotics not sugar fed, no artificial pollen no synthetic chemicals used in the hive small batch harvest

farmer

fibre artist

Toronto

Permaculture Design Certificate, Permaculture Design

Sustainable Urban Agriculture Programme, Apiculture, Honours

Art, Fine/Studio Arts

interdisciplinary programme

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