These are the notes from day 1. It was held at Solihull School.
Beyond the basic
Celia Davis gave the aims of the course - and how it should improve beekeeping skills as well as starting planning and taking the general husbandry exam within the next couple of years.What will be assessed
Record Keeping
General Manipulations skills
Swarm Management
Queen rearing
Preparation of products for sale
Relevant theoretical knowledge
Honey extraction facilities
The syllabus includes being able to perform the tasks.
Queen rearing
Practical Beekeeping
Swarm Control
Queen Clipping
Natural History and Behavior
Foraging
Plant Diary / Pollen nectar
Hygiene, disease, pets and poisoning stings
honey and honey processing
Honey regulations
Samples - Honey and Wax
Hygiene & Husbandry
Bio security and Barrier Management is very important and is taken very seriously by the examiners, both in handling bees its husbandry and honey processing for human consumption.
For equipment, its important that hive tools, brushes, porter bee escapes are clean and kept in soda water solution. The lecturer Dave Bronner an regional bee inspector also explained how important and why hygiene of bee suits and and gloves is important.
Leather gloves which are very difficult to wash and can amass pheromones and stings, perhaps germs and pathogens are really not longer suitable for more modern bee keepers. However blue nitrate gloves, which are disposable are better. Suits should be washed regularly also important.
Apiaries should meet the " The Cafe Kitchen test". If you walked through the cafe kitchen would you still want to eat in the restaurant.
Dave also talked about equipment storage and using different sheds to keeps clean and dirty equipment and scorching and replacing used equipment. Much of the lecture was common sense, and all things we know, just getting them into a normal pattern of usage.
Cleanliness included the important honey processing facilities, and equipment, like extraction items and storage facilities for honey, wax and other hive products.
Leather gloves which are very difficult to wash and can amass pheromones and stings, perhaps germs and pathogens are really not longer suitable for more modern bee keepers. However blue nitrate gloves, which are disposable are better. Suits should be washed regularly also important.
Apiaries should meet the " The Cafe Kitchen test". If you walked through the cafe kitchen would you still want to eat in the restaurant.
Dave also talked about equipment storage and using different sheds to keeps clean and dirty equipment and scorching and replacing used equipment. Much of the lecture was common sense, and all things we know, just getting them into a normal pattern of usage.
Cleanliness included the important honey processing facilities, and equipment, like extraction items and storage facilities for honey, wax and other hive products.
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