Introduction to Beekeeping
Event description
Beekeeping is a popular hobby & many people have already found out how enjoyable and rewarding it is to keep honeybees. It's also a way of ensuring you have a supply of 100% pure, natural honey sourced from local flowering plants.
Learn the basics of beekeeping including:
*how to obtain bees
*regulations and where to locate them in the garden
*equipment and costs for starting up a beehive
*the basics of colony management
*protecting your bees from pests and diseases
*what plants attract bees
*extracting honey
*native bees
*This is an introductory course only so there will be no practical activities with live bees. $40pp
**All participants receive a 300gr jar of honey made at our Centre.