Description
Practical Bee Course – runs monthly
Intermediate beekeeping course for new beekeepers and hobbyists that want to grow their experience.
You’re ready to get more bee knowledge!
We run a bee course for beginners on a Saturday for a full day. Learners that do not have bee suits or jackets of their own MUST hire one of ours for the day and this is not included in the course fee.
Hire of a bee suit or jacket for the bee course is R150 extra for the day.
VENUE: TBA
It includes:
- Uncapping comb
- Clearing wax moth
- Catch boxes / Luring bee
- How to make new queen bees
- Inspecting hives for brood maintenance
- Extracting honey
- Pest handling
- Bee Removals – theory
- Bottling honey / storing
- How to seal a hive for travelling
- Feeding the bees with different feeders
- We provide a lunch or similar.
After lunch:
Everyone puts their bee suits or jackets on before we start working with bees in 3-5 colonies on site at the venue.
Get involved as a hobbyist or begin a road to commercial bee farming, either way you need to get more knowledge and hands on experience. It’s like a test drive before you buy!
For a full breakdown of the Practical Intermediate beekeeping course please see the bee course outline below.
The full day practical beekeeping course includes a practical demonstration of working a bee hive as well as theory about beekeeping.
Beekeeping can be fun. Some people do it for leisure and free honey and others do it professionally. Either way it’s still a great way to get outdoors, meet people and get closer to nature. Our beekeeping course includes an estimated 120-180 minutes inspecting a live hive.
It will be for a FULL Day. Starting at 8h30 until late in the early evening. We will focus on as much hands-on theory as possible with at least 3 hours of practical work at a hive or performing practical extraction.
The PRACTICAL BeeKeeping demo includes each learner removing a frame from a live bee hive and inspecting it. A search for the queen bee and description of comb, drone cells, larvae, eggs and internal workings of the hive. All learners participate in the practical exercise with multiple live bee hives.
We will be charging R1595 for the bee course which includes the facilitation and tea and biscuits at the site. Please be sure you purchase necessary equipment such as a bee suit and gloves before coming on the workshop. Or you can rent a bee suit and gloves for the day for an additional R100pp.
A minimum of 5 candidates is required to run the beekeeping course so be sure to bring a friend!
