Beginning Your Beekeeping - Two Day Beginners Course

Description

An intensive course to get you started, explaining all about the honey bee, helping you choose your hive and equipment, how and where to set up your apiary, the bees management and pests and diseases. Not forgetting when and how to extract that lovely honey. An informal couple of days spent with others looking to keep bees. A wealth of information from a highly experienced beekeeper and a chance to see the different equipment available, along with a useful pack of course notes to take away. Where the bees and weather allow, this course will include an inspection of a hive. The course tutors are Mike Cullen and Jill Sales. Mike is a Master Beekeeper and has been Beekeeping since 1972. Jill is a professional lecturer and keeps up to six colonies of bees, she has been both beekeeping and training for many years. For more info on our lecturers please visit our website. Learning the art of beekeeping is a fascinating past-time, but beware it can become addictive from the very first time you open a hive and peer inside! It is an interest that can just keep growing, as you begin to understand more and more about how these little insects work as an incredible and complex colony there is endless knowledge to gain. Bees are under threat and need our help to survive, by understanding the behaviour and instincts of the honey bee along with their needs and the problems they are encountering you can help a vital part of our environment.

What's included in the price?

Course Programme: 1. The Honey Bee The bee colony, biology, and life cycle 2. Equipment and Costs Hive equipment, frames, wax, tools, personal protection 3. The Apiary Apiary layout, siting the hives, responsibilities, and safety 4. Managing Honey Bee Colonies Inspections, swarm control, uniting and moving colonies 5. Bee Health and Diseases Bee diseases, pests & other problems, how to recognize & treat them 6. The Importance of Plants Requirements of honeybees and other pollinators 7. Honey Harvest and Winter Preparation Honey extraction & handling, equipment & costs, and preparing for winter 8. Information, Help, and Support Resources, books, magazines, local organisations, obtaining bees What to bring: Just bring yourself, confirmation of your booking, a notebook and any questions you may have, along with wellies, and gloves. A bee suit will be provided. Refreshments will be provided, including tea, coffee, water, and a 'honey-themed' cake. Please bring a packed lunch. Parking is available at the entrance to our farm and our training room is just short walk down our track.

Cancellation policy

Strict - Cancellation and a full refund can be obtained up to 8 weeks before the course starts

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