Course Information:

A Taste of Beekeeping
with Dorian Pritchard

• Saturday 14th July 2012
   
     11.00 - 4.45, £50 including lunch & refreshments
  
  
•  Your Course:

This course will give you some of the background to bees and beekeeping and the experience of actually venturing into a live colony of honeybees. We will begin with an illustrated talk about bees, the roles they play in nature and how beekeepers work with them to garner honey from the woods and fields. Emphasis will be placed on the benefits of working with native bees.

After lunch we will open up a hive or two. You should see worker bees, drones, worker and drone brood, honey and pollen stores and if we’re lucky, the queen herself.

Protective clothing will be provided, but please make sure your body, hair and clothes carry no perfume, or smell of horses.
  
There will be a nominal fee for the hire of bee suits, payable to the tutor on the day.