Our mission is to create new beekeepers! Honey bees improve our ecosystems by providing cross pollination to flowering plants though an elegant relationship that has evolved over millions of years. Honey bees improve our world! They provide the color and vitality in our ecosystems, gardens, and kitchens. It is difficult to overstate the importance of the honey bee to agriculture.
Our family farm has trained hundreds of beekeepers and is thoroughly committed to honey bee education. The lead instructor is always farm owner Beekeeper Joe who is certified as a master beekeeper and has over 40 years of beekeeping experience. This online video class will hep us reach more people with the information they need to start keeping honey bees. Your funding will help make this happen.
This class will be available 24/7 so more people will have access to the information and support needed to be come a beekeeper. Our goal is to provide all of the information a new beekeeper needs to get through the first year with healthy beehives. We aim to provide up to the minute information along with video footage of authentic hive inspections to deepen the level of information provided and accelerate knowledge acquisition. This course will provide decades worth of hard won beekeeper knowledge and experience organized into course that will act as a spring board for individuals interested in becoming beekeepers.
We have recorded many hours of quality beehive video to edit into a visually beautiful and content rich streaming video class. The finished product will be a dynamic blend of factual and experiential knowledge by combining the basic information need to become a beekeeper with authentically documented video of actual beekeeping tasks.