2022 One Day Beekeeping Course

We aim to provide all participants with a solid knowledge of beekeeping and beekeeping practices.
 
Topics to be covered
	
Worker bees, drones and queens
	
Apiary and environment
	
Beehives: components and sections
	
Inspections: why and what to look for
	
Bee health
	
Rearing your own queens
	
Extracting honey
	
Overwintering colonies
 
Our one day beekeeping course is structed in 3 parts:
	
Part One - Learning with written material to take away with you 
	
Part Two - Hands on inspecting colonies of honeybees 
	
Part Three - Discussion/re-cap of what was covered during the day.
 
Course Timetable:
09.30am till 12.00 for Part One
12.00 Lunch Break – please come with your packed lunch, drinks are provided
12.30 to 14.30 for Part Two
14.30 to 15.30 Part Three
 
Aim of the course: 
to all those people interested in becoming beekeepers and those ones wanting to brush up on their beekeeping skills.    So you may have already decided to become a beekeeper, or you feel a bit unsure what is like to be a beekeeper.  You may have been a beekeeper some time ago looking for a refresh course or you currently are a beekeeper looking for some additional hands on experience and knowledge.  The course is a fine balance between theory and practice.
 
Beesuits and gloves are provided, please come with suitable closed shows, boots or wellies at best.  You will be issued with a Certificate at completion of the course.  And also rewarded with a jar of local raw honey, and 10% discount voucher valid for 10 days on more honey or natural skin care products.

If the forecast is not good enough for us to open the hives we will re-schedule the course date. In the unlikely event that we don't have enough participants to run the course may ask you to change your booking.
 
Course dates:
Sunday May 15th - fully booked, sorry
Sunday June 19th - fully booked, sorry
New Date: Sunday June 26th
Sunday July 17th - three places left
New Date: Sunday August 28th