Beginning Beekeeping 100 (short course) 2026

Days: Saturday

Dates: January 24, 30, February 7, 14, 21, 28

Time: 10:am - 1:pm

Hours: 18

Location: 1400 Quincy St. NE, Washington DC

Type: Classroom / Online Homework

Course Description:

The beekeeping course will run for six weeks, meeting once a week for three hours, providing a total of 18 hours of classroom instruction, homework assingments, quizes, and final exam. Topics cover everything you need to know to successfully and responsibly keep honeybees in an urban environment. The course fee includes all lectures, text book, and extras. The text book and equipment catalogs will be distributed at the first course meeting. The course will be followed by a hands-on field day and an equipment assembly workshop. Upon completion of the course, participants will be presented with a certificate.

Topics:

The introductory beekeeping course covers these topics:

• A Brief History of Beekeeping

• A Bees Life and How knowing Makes Your Life Easier

• Beekeeping Equipment: Woodenware, Tools, and Protective Gear

• The Beekeeping Year in DC and What to do When

• Diseases, Pests and Parasites

• Food for Bees: What DC Bees Eat

• Products of the Hive

• The Triumph of the City Bee

• Field session, including installing packages and nucleus colonies

• Equipment building hands-on workshop

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