Sustainable Bee Keeping

This is a new course designed to help existing beekeepers address the complex issues affecting keeping bees today.

For new beekeepers, the “Introduction to Beekeeping“ course at Duchy College Rosewarne has been adapted and incorporates some of the principles of sustainability at a basic level.

This more specialised advanced course requires the beekeeper to have been keeping bees for a while. It will be a 6 session course over 6 weeks, looking at the key themes and exploring how we need to adapt our husbandry practices, beehives, comprehension of the issues themselves and provide some practical guidance on things like hive design, nutrition, pathogen control as well as colony dynamics.