Description
If you keep bees, you are going to have a lot of questions about a wide range of topics. Over the past 30+ years, Stan and I have helped thousands of people with their bees. You have asked some really great, important questions about bees. We gathered all of the questions and answers together to write a series of beekeeping courses.
SIX in-depth online courses, from starting your first hive to advanced queen rearing:
- Course 1. My First Colony How to choose your first colony, hive, protective clothing, and beekeeping tools PLUS managing packages and nucleus colonies.
- Course 2. Beginning Beekeeping Skills How to approach a beehive for the first time, inspect and expand the colony through the summer, and prepare for winter.
- Course 3. How is My Queen? How to check if your colony is queen-right and troubleshoot if things go wrong.
- Course 4. Are My Bees Healthy? How to prevent, diagnose, and treat common honey bee diseases and pests.
- Course 5. Honey and Beeswax How to harvest, extract, and bottle honey PLUS how to render beeswax, and make beeswax products.
- Course 6. Queen Rearing How to raise queen bees using the Doolittle/ grafting Method, an advanced beekeeping topic.
Online Courses for Aspiring, New, and Experienced Beekeepers
This bundle of all six courses will take you from “Newbee” to “Expert,” answering all of your questions along the way.
Beginning Skills Like How to
- Open the hive
- Remove frames
- Start a smoker
- Add supers
- Feed bees, and more!
Intermediate Skills Like How to
- Know what to look for when you inspect hives
- Divide colonies
- Introduce a new queen
- Prepare for winter
- Harvest, extract, and bottle honey, and more!
Advanced Skills Like How to
- Troubleshoot queen issues
- Catch swarms
- Diagnose and treat disease
- Rear queens, and more!
What Is Included?
This course bundle includes all six of our beekeeping courses in one price. That’s over 270 video and text lessons. We will take you beekeeping and share step-by-step strategies, inspection tips, and troubleshooting guides to help keep your colonies healthy and happy.
Successfully Completing This Course Requires
This course series will help you go from “New-bee” to expert. No beekeeping experience required, just a desire to learn about keeping honey bees.
- We assume you will keep European honey bees.
- The material in this class applies best to temperate regions with a winter season, but can be adapted to other climates.
- You will have most success as a new beekeeper if you keep bees in a Langstroth hive, but you can adapt these courses to fit other hive styles. (Top Bar, Warré, and other Hives are considered “Intermediate” hives.)
Take Online Courses Anytime, Anywhere in the World.
- Begin any time of year, and refer back to the info when you need to.
- 100% Self-paced with pre-recored videos.
- Lifetime access.
- Access to updates. Whenever we update this course, you will have access to all of the new info.
Included with All of Our Courses
- 52 Emails. Don’t have time to sit down and complete all of the lessons? We’ve got you covered. We divided the six courses into 52 condensed emails. You can avoid overwhelm by focusing on 1-2 topics per week in the season that you need the information.
- Search By Topic. Use the Search function in the membership area of the website to search for and find answers to your specific questions.
- Printable Guides. Print and reprint as often as you need. These include over 200 pages of checklists, recipes, tutorials, queen troubleshooting, and more!
Testimonials
Join thousands of beekeepers from around the country who have created successful apiaries and discovered the joy of keeping honey bees.
Here is what our customers have to say!
More Confident as Beekeepers
“Stan and Alicia, Thank you for letting us learn from you. We have learned so much and are getting more confident as beekeepers. There is a huge difference between a book education and watching Stan work:) We really appreciate your friendship.”
Andrea and kids, Spanish Fork, Utah
Folks You Can Trust
“I have known Stan and Alicia for 3 years now while trying to learn the art of beekeeping. They are perfect contacts to get you started and keep you going. Very knowledgeable and patient with everyone. . . . They teach classes, have online videos, and will give ongoing support.”
Brent DeMille, Utah
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