An Introduction to Beekeeping (£160)
18th / 19th May 2024 Beginners Beekeeping Courses
Address: TRA Cossall Hall, 48 Mortlock Close, Peckham, London SE15 2QE
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09.30am-4.30pm
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Our two-day weekend course is one of the most comprehensive beginners’ beekeeping courses available on the market today. Covering bee disease and pests, husbandry skills, siting of apiaries, in addition, to keeping bees in urban environments, components and the different types of the hives, making frames, various pieces of different beekeeping equipment, through hands on practical sessions, and In addition, PowerPoint lectures, which will include the inspection of several nearby sets of hives, providing the weather is permitting.
Comprehensive Beginners Beekeeping Course Tuition.
This intensive course weekend, is based on the ‘Introduction to Beekeeping’ syllabus, from the British Beekeepers Association, but is designed with a specific focus on keeping bees within an urban city environment. It is designed to ensure attendees are equipped with the basic skills and knowledge that they will need to keep their own bees productively and safely.
All attendees will get membership for the year of Kent Beekeepers Association, KBKA (Bromley Branch), in addition to annual membership of the British Beekeeping Association Should you prefer, we are able to facilitate contact with other branches of KBKA, all over the county, so you can join a branch close to home.
You can check out the local branches on the KBKA website, by Clicking Here.
Mentoring Program Following Course.
Moreover, we can also join you to the BBKA and London Beekeepers Association, should you prefer. Additionally, As the LBKA is separate to Kent, of which we are members, we can only facilitate your membership to them. Once you are a member, you will be able to attend their regular meetings and meet other association members. However, other than facilitating your membership, and providing you their website details so you can attend their meetings etc, we are unable to provide more information about them, other than they are an excellent association, and this is the exact same weekend course as they run.
In addition, those who may wish to eventually keep bees of their own will be allocated to an experienced mentor for a whole bee season. This is a unique and important service, which will help to prepare you to start keeping your own bees.
- Instruction By Some Of London’s Leading Apiculturists.
- London’s Number One Urban Beekeeping Course
- Includes Membership Of The BBKA (Annual Subscription.)
- Includes Membership Of The KBKA Bromley Branch.
- Monthly KBKA Meetings With Beekeeping Talks.
- Annual Subscription To BBKA Magazine
- Annual Subscription To Beecraft Magazine
- Mentoring Programme
- Free Beekeeping Book ‘Bees At The Bottom Of The Garden’.
- Refreshments
Please note that we are unable to guarantee finding you a mentor in the area you reside, but we will try to do the very best we can. If this is the case, you may be required to travel a short distance . We will however do our best to accommodate all.
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Travel Details.
Details Will Be Forwarded With Your Reception Package.
Train: The nearest train Station is Queens Road Peckham, and the course venue is a five minute walk. Peckham Rye Station is a ten minute walk, Nunhead station a 15 minute walk. Maps and directions will be supplied.
Car: Parking is freely available in Gordon Road, a two minute walk from the venue hall, and in local roads at zero cost.
Bus: Peckham High Street Bus garage is a short 5 minute walk, however a number of buses stop close to the venue. The closest bus stop is Carlton Grove, approximately 1 minute away. Click for information on buses and routes.
Course Tutors Include.
Paul Vagg is a multi award winning apiculturist, Author and Speaker, and, additionally, recently featured on ‘The Farmers Country Showdown’ for the BBC.
Subsequently, He is the only person to date, to have been awarded the prestigious ‘London Beekeeper Of The Year’ trophy twice in its history. Furthermore, he is a former committee member of the LBKA.
He is a best selling author of both The Honey Bees Reward and in addition, Cooking With Honey, and a regular speaker at The National Honey Show, the UK’s most prestigious Apiculturist event.
