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Solar Bee Camp - 2 Day Agrivoltaics Workshop for Solar Indus

In-Hive Experience

In-Hive Experience

In-Hive Experience

See the bees up close and personal in a picturesque Blue Ridge setting to learn more about beekeeping and especially beekeeping in solar. Bee suits and gloves provided. 

Taste the Results

In-Hive Experience

In-Hive Experience

Sample delicious honeys,  meads, and beers and experience first hand the value-added supply chain possibilities of agrivoltaics. Tour honey and mead production facilities, 

Experience Habitat

In-Hive Experience

Experience Habitat

Take a hands-on tour of pollinator habitat and learn about the equipment and methods used, and why topsoil is so critical for success. Walk in the flower field, pull soil cores and explore top soil. 

Talk Livestock

In-Hive Experience

Experience Habitat

Dive deeper into livestock production systems, specifically through the lens of meat production in solar. Taste what solar can produce over included lunch. Contemplate novel approaches to dual-use solar. 

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Agenda

This agenda is subject to flip-flop in the event of rain during the beekeeping experience. Schedules will be updated at least 4 days in advance. 

Day 1 - Tuesday April 28th

8:30 AM – Van Pickup Charlottesville, VA (Location TBD)


8:30 AM – 9:00 AM: Van Pickup Travel from Charlottesville to King Family Vineyards


9:00 AM - 12:00 PM: Solar Beekeeping 101 Classroom

King Family Vineyard’s Carriage House 


12:00 PM – 1:00 PM: Lunch and Learn: US/VA Honey Production, Monofloral Honeys, and Native Plants, Tour of the USA Honey Tasting (10 honeys from around the US)

King Family Vineyard’s Carriage House 

Lunch provided


1:00 PM – 3:00 PM: Hands-On, In-Hive Beekeeping Experience

Yonder Hill Farm Teaching Apiary at King Family Vineyard

Bee suits provided


3:00 PM – 4:30 PM: Happy Hour Chat – Agricultural Value-Added Production Potential in Solar, Take It To The Next Step (think wool, cider, beer, hemp, jams and jellies, pickles, etc.)

King Family Vineyard


4:30 PM – 5:00 PM Travel back to Charlottesville


Dinner on your own

Day 2 - Wednesday April 29th

9:30 AM – Van Pickup Charlottesville, VA (Location TBD)


9:30 AM – 10:00 AM: Travel from Charlottesville to Pollinator Habitat Demo Site


10:00 AM - 12:00 PM: Pollinator Habitat Demo- Flowers, Cover Crops, Equipment, Seed, Methods, Topsoil Management, touch and feel top soil cores, Novel Ideas in Solar Land Management.


12:00 PM – 12:30 PM: Travel to Thistlerock Mead Company


12:30 PM – 1:30 PM Picnic Lunch and Learn: Meat Production 101 in Solar with Gray’s Lambscaping, novel ideas in livestock production in solar.

Thistlerock Mead Company

Lunch provided


1:30 PM – 3:30 PM: Bloom to Bottle Tour and Tasting – Explore how we go from a flower, to the bee, to the hive, to the honey production facility (SPC honey trailer tour), to the solar powered mead production facility, to your glass for mead flight at the Thistlerock tasting room, discuss putting this system in solar. 


3:30 PM – 4:00 PM: Travel back to Charlottesville 


4:00 PM – 5:00 Honey Beer Happy Hour at Decipher Brewing Company and tour of SPC warehouse 

“The warehouse” 1740 Broadway Street. SPC HQ and Decipher Brewing Company to try a beer made with SPC honey. 

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