FARMING & LEARNING

Beekeeping Academy

Learn to keep honey bees in the tropics. Five modules: the colony (queen, workers and drones, egg to bee in about 20 days, swarming and absconding), hives and equipment (fixed-comb, Kenya top-bar and frame hives, gear, smoke and stings), the apiary and first season (site and safe distances, ants, moving hives, catching swarms, inspections and sugar syrup), harvest and products (capped honey only, storage under 19 % water, wax and pollen) and pests and diseases (queenless colonies, varroa, nosema, wax moth). Every figure comes from Agrodok 32 “Beekeeping in the tropics”, cited chapter by chapter. Tools: brood calendar, new-queen timing, syrup mixer, honey moisture check and comb spacing for top bars. Questions after each lesson, a final test and a certificate.

Ready to try · Learn to keep honey bees in the tropics. Five modules: the colony (queen, workers and drones, egg to bee in about 20 days, swarming and absconding), hives and equipment (fixed-comb, Kenya top-bar and frame hives, gear, smoke and stings), the apiary and first season (site and safe distances, ants, moving hives, catching swarms, inspections and sugar syrup), harvest and products (capped honey only, storage under 19 % water, wax and pollen) and pests and diseases (queenless colonies, varroa, nosema, wax moth). Every figure comes from Agrodok 32 “Beekeeping in the tropics”, cited chapter by chapter. Tools: brood calendar, new-queen timing, syrup mixer, honey moisture check and comb spacing for top bars. Questions after each lesson, a final test and a certificate.