Centre for Ecological Apiculture

Organic / Ecological Top Bar Beekeeping

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Distance Course and Crash-Courses in the Centre for Ecological Apiculture

Not only for beginners (organic gardeners, farmers, non-medical practitioners, apitherapists).

Commercial beekeepers, sideliners or hobbyists have also the possibillity to change from framehive beekeeping to topbar-beekeeping (see distance course No. 19). A two semester training for becoming a certified apiary of thr Centre for Ecological Apiculture is also an option.

Learn more on bees and how to keep them without cruelty to animals and in harmony with climate protection, on managing simple hives, especially top bar hives, on suitable equipment, how to build simple hives, colony development in top bar hives, using the swarming impulse for breeding etc. and on how to produce natural apitherapeutical bee colony products without residuals.

Registration for distance course No. 19
 

Further reading and references:

Centre for Ecological Apiculture 2022: Bienenkiste, Warré or Top bar hive? - Take which-ever you like best, but which is the best for beginners, gardeners and backyard beekeepers? Press release

Centre for Ecological Apiculture / Zentrum für wesensgemäße Bienenhaltung 2013: Die Bienenkiste - Bienen einfach und natürlich halten? Kritische Anmerkungen zur BienenkisteApicultural Review Letters 2013, 12, Nr. 746

Centre for Ecological Apiculture 2009: Bienenkiste or Tbh? Api Review Letters 8, Nr. 379

Training for becoming a certified partner-apiary of the Centre for Ecological Apiculture
Top-bar-beekeeping for beginners and experienced beekeepers, organic gardeners and farmers (distance course No. 19)