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Beginners Course
A ten session introduction to beekeeping course is run every year, starting in mid November in the evenings. The venue is in Bishops Waltham.
The Course includes:
- An Introduction to beekeeping
- The honeybee life cycle
- Types of hive, and hive construction
- The beekeeping year
- Bee husbandry
- Disease and its control
- Making frames and hives
- Setting up an apiary
- Extracting and preparing honey
- Practical beekeeping and learning to “read” the colony
The course is followed by practical sessions at the monthly apiary meetings taking place throughout the summer. Participants are offered a nucleus colony at a reduced rate (applies to Meridian members only) and assisted to establish their own bee hive at their own site or at one of the Meridian Association apiaries.
Beginners Course
£60.00 per person or £85.00 per couple with 10% discount to members.
Junior Course -
Refresher Course -
Junior Course
The junior course is run in August during the summer holiday. A program of four 90 minute sessions gives the younger beekeeper the opportunity to experience the wonder of the hive up close and personal. Each session is broken into two 45 minute sittings, the first devoted to basic theory and the second, basic hands on beekeeping. All protective clothing is provided for beekeepers, both big and small as we encourage adults to stay. Most youngsters are fascinated by the innermost workings of the hive, and with proper protective clothing the experience will stay with the child forever.
Refresher Weekends
Refresher weekends are arranged for those wishing to take the British Beekeepers Basic Assessment Examinations, something very much encouraged in Meridian.
