Pictured: Youth Beekeeper Honorees from 2020
(Dodge-Jefferson County) The Dodge-Jefferson County Beekeepers Association is pleased to announce sponsorship for three local beekeepers for the 2024 beekeeper season.
Each youth is sponsored with equipment, hive components, and live bees to install and care for one hive during the beekeeping season. They are assigned mentors to assist them with their beekeeping experience.
This is the Association’s 10th year sponsoring. Uriah Ewerdt of Watertown, Allisyn Eggen of Reeseville, and Lily Siegmann of Rubicon were selected as part of the promotion and education programming for youth interested in beekeeping.
Ewerdt, an eighth grader at St. John’s Lutheran School, loves to be out in nature and hopes to learn more about honeybees by working with a hive of his own. Allisyn, a 10th grader at Dodgeland High School and a member of the River Oaks 4-H Club, has always been interested in bees and hopes to build her own honey business.
Siegmann is an 11th grader at Hartford Union High School and member of the Neosho Utopians 4-H Club and vice president of Hartford’s FFA. Her goal is to learn how flowers affect the flavor of honey.
Additional sponsors over the years include Dadant’s in Watertown and Capital Bee Supply in Columbus. A link to more information is available HERE, or people can like and follow Dodge Jefferson County Beekeepers Association on Facebook.
