Whereabouts in Essex are you, Rommy? Each local division of the EBKA (see http://www.ebka.org) runs courses. Mine last year through Romford had 28.Hi everyone.
Im a complete newbie and I want to start keeping bees. I can't find a local course. Is there really any need for these courses bearing in mind all the online resources?
Definitely- a course or something very like it, such as being allowed to 'assist' an experienced beekeeper. Apart from anything else, there's nothing like it for helping decide whether it really is for you. Of the people on our taster day last year, I think maybe half decided they did want to, which had dropped to perhaps a quarter actually going on to keep bees.Hi everyone.
Im a complete newbie and I want to start keeping bees. I can't find a local course. Is there really any need for these courses bearing in mind all the online resources?
This is possibly the best course of action. I would have loved to have a beek I could have visited to see if I was one for the 'ladies' before I plunged in even to a course.i will always recommend doing a course however if you cant find one then team up with a local beek and work along side him/her for a year so you can lrean and watch the hive build up, try to swarm, produce honey and shrink for winter.
All the best and welcome to a great hobbie
I'm in Seven Kings, slap bang between the Romford, Wanstead and Epping Forest divisions, but I found out about Romford first and Pat was a great help.hi psafloyd
Im a member of romford divison also, my teachers were the late fred, pat allen, jim mcneil and john. Where abouts are you?
Whereabouts in Essex are you, Rommy? Each local division of the EBKA (see http://www.ebka.org) runs courses. Mine last year through Romford had 28.
There is no excuse not to ge trained and there is no substitute for the practical experience of handling frames in a colony.
Haven't got time for a lengthy course? Then do you have time to look after the bees in the first place?Sorry, I've just logged back. Im in Grays.
Trouble is that I just haven't got time for a lengthy course.
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