Beekeeping : Inspect Your Hive ! Make it Thrive!
What you'll learn
- Learn to inspect your hive with confidence.
- Understand what to look for in the hive and on the comb.
- You will have a clear understanding of potential threats to your apiary.
- Be at ease with the health of your hive. Know what a healthy hive looks like vs a failing hive.
- Have a thriving apiary without guessing!
Requirements
- Students should have at least one hive
- Understand beginner terminology of beekeeping
Description
*Updated for better audio and visual examples January 2025
Do you love your hive? Of course you do!
But your hive is more than just honey. The world of beekeeping has changed since the days of our grandparents. Pests and diseases have made it important that you, the beekeeper, must take action.
Beekeeping is a participation hobby. To ensure a healthy hive and gather a bit of the sweet stuff a beekeeper needs to examine the comb. It can tell you all you need to know about your hive.
Don't let fear or analysis paralysis get the better of you and your hive. Let me help you understand what it is your are looking for in your hive.
We will cover:
Why you need to inspect your hives.
What to expect from healthy comb.
What some diseases look like.
Possible pest problems
Queens
And More...
I like not wearing my bee suit, forgetting myself and getting as close to the bees lives as they will let me, remembering in the process that there is more to life than the merely human and accepting the humbling truth that bees know better than I do.
This course will be sprinkled with bits of zen wisdom that you can help you on your journey of mindful beekeeping. Since I am an organic beekeeper I lean towards treatment free, holistic and natural management.
Included as downloads are
Hive Inspection Sheet
Beekeeper Calendar
Guide to Inspections
Gear Checklist
PDFs on pests
This is for the beginner to intermediate level beekeeper. Here you will find no judgement, just encouragement.
As beekeepers we can never stop learning!
Join the swarm!
Who this course is for:
- Beekeepers that need refreshing knowledge about their hives.
- Beginner beekeepers
Instructor
- 4.3 Instructor Rating
- 58 Reviews
- 322 Students
- 2 Courses
I love being a beekeeper!
I have been keeping bees organically since 2003. As any gardener knows you need pollinators, honeybees and others. Our apiary is organically managed and smokeless. I am passionate about the survival of the honeybee and all our pollinators.
I have kept bees in Northern Maine and currently South Mississippi. I have experienced most of the fears and frustrations of a beekeeper. Over time and learning, my obstacles became opportunities. Using the teachings of zen, fears dissipate and become stepping stones toward peace and mindfulness. Bees are great teachers to believe in the process of nature.
We currently run over one hundred hives and have both urban and country yards. I am a queen breeder of VSH queens. Our apiary harvests honey, pollen, wax, and sells queens, bees and nucs.
I love talking with people about the bees and our experiences with the natural world that is around us. I hope to get people excited about the connections we have with these wonderful insects. Everyone needs to slow down and taste the honey.
I think it is important that everyone who wants to gets the chance to keep bees. It places one on another level with our interactions in the wild world.
I look forward to working with you and your bees!