Alternative Beekeepers Courses 

  1. 2 day course over 2 weekends.
  2. Understanding Horizontal Hive benefits for Bee and Beekeeper. (Easy on your spine)
  3. Understanding Bees basic needs.
  4. Looking deeply at the swarm.
  5. How the bees change their poiritys though the year.
  6. Harvesting from Horizontal Hives.
  7. Nutrients and minerals in honey and beebread. Bees Food.
  8. The colony and their brood.
  9. Knowing what to harvest and when. 
  10. Relationship of disease and strong colonys.
  11. The communication and emotions of the colony.
  12. Winter with the Bees.

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Basic Horizontal Hive Beekeepers Course

  1. 1 day course 
  2. Propolis - Defence of the city.
  3. The origins of propolis and how the bees forage for it.
  4. How the bees use propolis in the hive and how it acts like their immune system.
  5. The benefits of propolis to use and how it is used in apitherapy.
  6. How to harvest propolis and encourage the bees too forage more.
  7. How to extract the flavonoids from propolis.
  8. My personal experiences and health benefits I have witnessed from propolis. 
  9. Make a cream or toothpaste with propolis for you to take home and experience yourself.

Propolis

Bees Wax Rendering

  1. Half day course 
  2. Bees wax origins.
  3. The ways bees use wax and comb building.
  4. Practices in wax rendering, 
  5. The characteristics of bees wax and how it responds to its environment.
  6. Purifying wax, settlement and filtration.
  7. Uses of bees wax. (products you can  make)
  8. Make a bees wax candle for you to take away to experience its beautiful light.
  1. 1 day course
  2. Why the bees swarm.
  3. Understanding what the swarm looks for in a new home.
  4. Where to place your swarm catcher.
  5. How to guarantee the bees will move into your swarm catcher.
  6. How and when to remove swarm catcher and transporting. 
  7. How to hive bees from swarm catcher.
  8. Story's of success and failure in my years of swarm catching.

Swarm Catching

  1. 1 day course
  2. Detailing all products from the hive. Looking at differences between foraged and bee made products. 
  3. The bees methods of storage and preserving. 
  4. Look at indirect products like Larvae, hive air, frequencies and venom.
  5. Detail methods of harvesting these products in correct and safe ways.
  6. Processes of how to store and use these products 
  7. Brief outlook into what roles these products play in Apitherapy.

Harvesting all Products from the Hive

  1. 5 day course
  2. All other courses rolled into one. 
  3. Deeper understanding of Horizontal Hive beekeeping methods.
  4.  Top Bar Hive experience with learning about this gentle form for beekeeping.

Intense Horizontal Hive Beekeepers Course