Join Yasir as he leads you through the basics of bee-friendly, natural, organic, small-scale beekeeping. You will leave this class with a competent knowledge of the fundamentals of natural beekeeping, and be ready to set up your own backyard beehive. The course will focus on a style of apiculture that is exclusively designed for the small-scale beekeeper.

This bee-friendly method aims to care for the bees, allow them to control their own environment, and is a gentler approach than conventional beekeeping, resulting in healthy

contented bees, and superb raw honey!

Topics to be covered in class:

Recap of into to natural beekeeping

Principles and philosophy behind methods

Artificial swarming

Queen rearing

Extraction: when and how to

Honey and waxed harvesting

Permaculture and broad-acre beekeeping apprenticeship

*Incudes a farm fresh homemade vegetarian lunch and herbal tea