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.