Graduate Certificate in Commercial Beekeeping

Niagara College - Niagara-on-the-Lake Campus

Postgraduate Certificate / Diploma

Canada,Ontario

12 Months

Duration

CAD 26,256/year

Tuition Fee

CAD 100

Application Fee

Jan 2025

Apply Date

Canada, Ontario

Type: College

Location Type: Urban

Founded: 1967

Total Students: 10,500 +

Campus Detail

Main Campus Address

135 Taylor Road, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario L0S 1J0, Canada

Graduate Certificate in Commercial Beekeeping

Program Overview

Do you dream of working outdoors while contributing to the sustainability of one of the most important parts of our natural food system – the pollinator?
As a commercial beekeeper you will help meet the expected demand for pollination services by various agricultural crops in Canada and around the world.

Program 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.

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