Beekeeping course days in Portugal in Carlisle
Beekeeping course days in Portugal Get an early start to beekeeping, with our specially tailored beekeeping course in sunny Portugal, we run the course days/week/weekends from early March to end of October. We run a commercial bee farm in the North of Portugal, roughly an hour from the stunning City of Porto, with flights available from most UK airports with budget airlines and hotels available from £15 per night. With the advantage of many many sunny days (around 300 per year), we have around bee hives, depending on the time of year, with at least 20 hives used for queen rearing, bees flying most days in a year, in our relaxed friendly professional atmosphere we can cover; -Introduction to beekeeping, clothing, hive choices, making your own hives. -Bee products, Honey, Pollen, Propolis, Wax and Royal Jelly. -Hive inspections, problem solving, dealing with queen less colonies, forage, hive locations, bee requirements, moving hives. -Colony management, hive increase, swarm control, feeding. -Disease identification and control, from varroa to foul brood and preditors (Asian Hornet) -Queens, marking, clipping, rearing, queen mating and grafting. All courses covered by a beekeeper for 15 years in the UK and Portugal for the last 5 years, and a fully trained development coach, we specialise in different methods of beekeeping from many different beekeepers, always experimenting while keeping it simple, we also use many hive types from National to Deep, Langstroth to Dartington, double and triple brood and 2 and 5 frame Nucleus. As our courses are bespoke, we can completely tailor the course around you, you can choose from one to five days. If you require more theory, observe or hands on inspection of hives the choice is yours! We collect you from your hotel, take you to our apiaries, lunch at a local restaurant included, as are refreshments on the day, we return you to your hotel at the end of the day. Dates available are from Tuesday 1st March to 31st October Price is £100 per day, discounts available for more people/groups/days