Queen Bee Breeding for Backyard Beekeeping

About this course

Are you a backyard beekeeper who would like to learn a new skill?Would you like to raise your own locally adapted queen bees?Would you like to save money, have fun, breed and raise quality queen bees to increase your apiary?Would you like to breed queens but are put off by the specialized skills required to graft larvae? This technique uses an ingenious non-grafting kit! No grafting necessary.Finally a course which demonstrates how to successfully raise queen bees using the Top Bar Hive design.Raising your own queen bees is something all backyard beekeepers can learn to do. It is fun, saves you lots of money, prevents any diseases being introduced to your hives and raises the best quality queens.I have been raising my own queens for a number of years using a easy non grafting kit called the Jenter kit. This system suits me and my Top Bar bees perfectly. This course is for all backyard beekeepers (whatever hive design your bees are housed in) but especially suited to people who choose to keep their bees in a top bar hive design.I will take you through the whole process, step by step. Explaining and demonstrating how to adapt this system to your unique apairy. Each video lesson will have you right in the hive with me seeing and doing, which I think is the best way of learning. No stuffy old text books in this course.

Course objectives

• demonstrate step-by-step queen bee raising techniques
• provide practical, hands-on experiences within the hive
• make queen breeding accessible to all backyard beekeepers