2020 New Season Preparation
A three evening course for those who’ve completed a year’s practical beekeeping experience, and those wishing to use the course as a refresher.
Typically, beekeepers start out with a small young colony, and now wish to prepare for managing a more mature and demanding hive and colony in their second year onwards. The course includes:
- Review and discussion of your past season
- Equipment Checkpoint
- New Season Hive Inspections – first, spring, summer, autumn
- Pest and Disease Awareness
- Swarm prevention – Pagden method
- Swarm Collecting Overview
- Uniting Colonies
- Foraging and honey creation
- Extracting Foraged Honey
- Outline of other produce from the hive
- Autumn treating and feeding process
- Preparing the hive for winter
Courses:
Letchworth Garden City
- Across 3 Sunday Afternoons, one will be at an apiary for the practical exercises, dates to be confirmed
- Please email training@nhbka.org.uk
Welwyn Garden City
ChristChurch Peartree Halls, Welwyn Garden City
- Across 3 Wednesday evenings 26th February, and 4th and 11th March 2020
- 7.30 pm to 10.00 pm
- Attendance Fee £15 (towards cost of hall)
- please email training@hertsbees.org.uk
