Backyard Beekeeping Workshop for Beginners
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Event description
A full day workshop covering the basics of everything you need to know about keeping bees in your backyard.
Topics will include:
- the lifecycle of a bee and the roles of the female workers, the male drones and the all-important Queen (and how to spot her!)
- the jobs bees share and learning how hard they work
- pollination and the symbiotic relationship between pollinators and flowering plants
- bee anatomy - focusing on their honey stomach, their proboscis and their wax production glands,
- the incredible science behind the bees converting nectar into honey
- hive and equipment management,
- pests & disease basics and
- how to get started with beekeeping, including equipment lists, approximate costs and ongoing maintenance requirements
You will also have an invaluable hands-on experience up close and personal to the bees in full protective gear, where you will get to:
- hold a frame of bees inside a live bee hive onsite at Burnetts On Barney
- watch them at work with all their different jobs
- observe the bees' life cycle by witnessing first-hand the tiny egg stage through to the larvae stage, and maybe even see a young worker bee emerging for the first time from her cell.
- You will see pollen, nectar and honey and bees wax in the honeycomb cells, and
- if we are really lucky, you might even spot the Queen Bee!
A delicious morning tea and lunch is provided by The Quarry Cafe at Burnetts on Barney, to give us a chance to de-buzz our brains.
And of course, the day would not be complete without a honey tasting from Burnetts' home-grown honey!
You will be provided with class notes, which will include information on how to purchase a hive, bees and other equipment.