11 & 12th November at Ragmans Lane Farm
The Course will take a natural approach to beekeeping including:• How bees live in nature and how to respect their ways in your apiary.• Natural and less intensive management.• Start or increase an apiary by attracting swarms of local bees.• Horizontal hives and their advantages.• Wax foundation v foundationless natural comb.• Colony management - what to do and what not to do.• One-box hive, no feeding, no queen excluders, no requeening.• Healthy strong colonies without any treatments.
Dr Leo Sharashkin is editor of Keeping Bees With a Smile: A Vision and Practice of Natural Apiculture, a comprehensive resource on keeping bees naturally in horizontal hives. He is contributor to American Bee Journal, The Beekeepers Quarterly, and Acres USA, and speaks internationally on sustainable beekeeping, organic growing, and Earth-friendly living. He holds a PhD in Forestry from the University of Missouri and a Master’s in Natural Resources from Indiana University, USA.
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