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03 February 2024 | 5 min read | venue: Sydney Community College | cost: Adult: $329 | website: https://www.sydneycommunitycollege.edu.au/course/BCFB | address: 2A Gordon Street Rozelle NSW 2039
published: 23 Jan 2024
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Are you a backyard beekeeper, an urban beehive enthusiast, or an amateur who wants to learn more about our precious pollinators? Join us for our Beekeeping Course for Beginners, hosted on the rooftop of Sydney Community College, Rozelle.
We are proud to contribute to the biodiversity of our local neighbourhood by keeping buzzing beehives on our inner-city rooftop. You too can play your part in your local ecosystem by learning how to keep bees in your own backyard!
Bees from city bee yards are said to be healthier and more productive than their country cousins. Their presence also provides cities with enormous environmental benefits as they pollinate a wide variety of native plants that may otherwise struggle in urban environments - playing an important role in our food supply.
Keeping bees is also a fantastic way to nurture your own garden and grow wonderful fruit and vegetables - as well as another sweet reward: producing your own hyper-local and delicious pure honey!
This unique learning experience offers a rare close-up look at the fascinating life of European honeybees as well as our very own native Australian bees. You will learn the art of responsible backyard and urban beekeeping, including how to make sure your bees are happy and healthy.
This day-long workshop experience includes an opportunity to don protective gear (provided) and see inside the working hives on our rooftop. You will also take home a copy of fundamental beekeeping book 'BeeAgSkills', published by NSW Primary Industries. Most importantly, you will learn how rewarding it can be to keep bees in your own backyard.
Course content
What will be covered in this beekeeping course?
Why the sudden interest in bees?
Issues affecting the world bee population - disease, mites and hive deaths
Native bees
European honeybees
Bee biology
Building healthy colonies, natural beekeeping, commercial beekeeping and urban beekeeping
What goes on inside a hive
Hive types - Langstroth, Warre and Kenyan hives - relative productivity and ease of maintenance
Becoming a 'beek' - the regulations and personal commitment
Getting started and the costs involved
Healthy bees and how to maintain them
Bee diseases
Course materials
If the weather is right, we will visit and open the rooftop hives. A protective jacket, veil and gloves will be provided, but please bring the following items to class:
Wear long pants and enclosed shoes
Bring a device or pen & notepad for taking notes
Please note: the classroom is accessible, but the rooftop hives are accessed via a narrow staircase (22 steps)
For further information, please visit Sydney Community College.
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Are you a backyard beekeeper, an urban beehive enthusiast, or an amateur who wants to learn more about our precious pollinators? Join us for our Beekeeping Course for Beginners, hosted on the rooftop of Sydney Community College, Rozelle.
We are proud to contribute to the biodiversity of our local neighbourhood by keeping buzzing beehives on our inner-city rooftop. You too can play your part in your local ecosystem by learning how to keep bees in your own backyard!
Bees from city bee yards are said to be healthier and more productive than their country cousins. Their presence also provides cities with enormous environmental benefits as they pollinate a wide variety of native plants that may otherwise struggle in urban environments - playing an important role in our food supply.
Keeping bees is also a fantastic way to nurture your own garden and grow wonderful fruit and vegetables - as well as another sweet reward: producing your own hyper-local and delicious pure honey!
This unique learning experience offers a rare close-up look at the fascinating life of European honeybees as well as our very own native Australian bees. You will learn the art of responsible backyard and urban beekeeping, including how to make sure your bees are happy and healthy.
This day-long workshop experience includes an opportunity to don protective gear (provided) and see inside the working hives on our rooftop. You will also take home a copy of fundamental beekeeping book 'BeeAgSkills', published by NSW Primary Industries. Most importantly, you will learn how rewarding it can be to keep bees in your own backyard.
Course content
What will be covered in this beekeeping course?
Why the sudden interest in bees?
Issues affecting the world bee population - disease, mites and hive deaths
Native bees
European honeybees
Bee biology
Building healthy colonies, natural beekeeping, commercial beekeeping and urban beekeeping
What goes on inside a hive
Hive types - Langstroth, Warre and Kenyan hives - relative productivity and ease of maintenance
Becoming a 'beek' - the regulations and personal commitment
Getting started and the costs involved
Healthy bees and how to maintain them
Bee diseases
Course materials
If the weather is right, we will visit and open the rooftop hives. A protective jacket, veil and gloves will be provided, but please bring the following items to class:
Wear long pants and enclosed shoes
Bring a device or pen & notepad for taking notes
Please note: the classroom is accessible, but the rooftop hives are accessed via a narrow staircase (22 steps)
For further information, please visit Sydney Community College.
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Beekeeping for beginners 2024 is on 03 February 2024. See start and end times below. Conveniently located in Rozelle. Call 02 8752 7555 for details. Visit their website at https://www.sydneycommunitycollege.edu.au/course/BCFB.
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