Beekeeping for Beginners weekend course May 2026

Discover all you need to know about safe and successful beekeeping on our course for new or aspiring beekeepers. The course has a full weekend schedule with mornings spent learning the theory of beekeeping and afternoons spent gaining practical experience in our apiary.

Course topics are:

• Getting started – hive types, equipment, cost and time commitments

• Honey bee natural history – honey bee life cycle, queens, drones and workers

• The beekeeping year – inspections, managing colonies

• The importance of plants and pollination

• Swarms!

• Honey!

• Bee health and hygiene