Beekeeping teacher
Course
From choosing a spot to your first honey: the whole first year, one lesson at a time.
PDF · 48 pages
$19
One sheet for each visit: a few lines on the bees, the comb and the weather, ready to print.
$6
Free newsletter
A short letter every Sunday from the apiary: one thing I saw, one tip and one job to do this week.
Live session
Bring a question; I answer as many as I can.
Saturday, November 14 · 7:00 PM
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Opening a hive for the first time: what to check, what to leave alone and when to close it up.
A handful of dry fuel, a few puffs and a calm hand. How I light it and keep it going.
Levelling a hive on uneven ground, and where to put it so the bees fly clear of the path.
The flowers my bees visit most, and how to leave something in bloom through every month.
What the traffic at the door tells you before you open anything.
Cutting, planing and fitting a set of bars on a workbench with a few hand tools.
Online course
Video course · 10 lessons
From choosing a spot to your first honey: the whole first year, one lesson at a time.
Downloads, a course and merch
Downloads arrive by email. Merch is printed to order and shipped by Printful.
PDF · 12 sheets
One sheet for each visit: a few lines on the bees, the comb and the weather, ready to print.
Exercises, checklists and questions for your first twelve months with bees.
Measured drawings for a simple hive with bars, a cutting list and notes on each joint.
About
I have kept bees for twenty years, in hives I built myself, in a small apiary on a hillside. I started with one borrowed hive and a lot of mistakes. I learned most of what I know by opening hives slowly, writing down what I saw and asking older beekeepers why.
Now I teach it. The videos are filmed at the apiary, with a smoker, a hive tool and a veil, in plain words. What I sell are the things I wished I had when I started: workbooks that take you through a year, record sheets to print and fill in, hive plans you can build from, and two video courses, one for keeping your first hive and one for building it. I do not sell bees or hives. I teach you to look after your own.
Newsletter
A short letter every Sunday from the apiary: one thing I saw, one tip and one job to do this week.