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The Mid Bucks Beekeepers Association runs courses each year to help new beekeepers learn the craft of beekeeping and for established beekeepers to help improve their skills. New Beekeepers Course - 2012 The 2012 Beginners Course
will give the new beekeeper a good working knowledge of both the
theory and practice of beekeeping. The theory part of the course
will be held over six evening sessions starting on
Monday
27th February, at the Wendover Bowls Club, Dobbins Lane,
Wendover. The sessions run from 7:30pm to about 9:30
pm. From May onwards there will be regular practical sessions at our Teaching Apiary near Aylesbury. These provide experience handling bees under the guidance of an experienced beekeeper. There is no obligation to take up beekeeping at the end of the course but if you decide you want to, the Association can advise on the best equipment to purchase and how to obtain your first colony of bees. The cost of the course is £50.00 for non-members of the Mid Bucks Beekeepers Association and £38.00 for members. The full course fee includes Associate Membership of the MBBKA which entitles you to take part in all meetings. For more information and a registration form contact:
Clare Hayward-Smith, BBKA Basic Assessment The BBKA Basic Assessment is an excellent course for beekeepers to enhance their working knowledge of beekeeping as well as a proven way for established beekeepers to bring themselves up to date with such things as disease management. The course runs from May through June each year (details are published in our Newsletter), you are required to have been keeping bees for at least one year, the assessment is a practical session. The full syllabus can be found here. BBKA Certificates The British Beekeeping Association (BBKA) operate a full educational programme of practical and written examinations leading to a Diploma in Beekeeping. Each year Mid Bucks operates a study programme for one or two modules of the BBKA Syllabus. The benefit to the association and to beekeeping within the region of members studying for BBKA certificates is that it ensures that we have sufficient knowledge within our association to provide support to our members. |
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