Discover the wonders of the beehive and how you can keep honey bees in your own garden!
This one-day course will introduce the important basics of beekeeping to anyone thinking about keeping bees . You will learn about the incredible lifecycle of the honey bee, how they pollinate our flowers and crops, and what is necessary to successfully keep happy, healthy bees. You will find out about the different kinds of beehive as well as all of the basic equipment and techniques needed to keep bees and harvest your own honey.
We will visit the beehives at the herb farm with a chance to handle the bees and find the queen.
Whether you want to improve the pollination of your garden crops, produce your own honey and wax, help preserve our vulnerable pollinators, or just learn about these fascinating creatures, this fun and highly informative day is the perfect opportunity to find out more.
Richard Rickitt is co-editor of BeeCraft, the UK's best-selling beekeeping magazine.
Richard has been keeping bees for more than twenty years and, as well as his own bees, keeps hives for a number of commercial and private clients. He is beekeeper at Westonbirt, the National Arboretum, and teaches beekeeping courses around the UK. He frequently speaks on the subject here, abroad, and on radio and TV, making him one of the UK's best-known beekeepers. He has written hundreds of articles on the subject and is author of Beekeeping for Gardeners (Bloomsbury) as well as Jekka's blog, Gardening for Bees.
He will be happy to answer all your questions about honey bees, wild bees and how to garden for bees.
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We will send out an illustrated card summarising the details of the course upon purchase, if you are purchasing this master class as a gift please ensure you state the name of the attendee on checkout. If you require further information, please do not hesistate to contact us.
We look forward to welcoming you to the farm.
At Jekka’s we aim to provide a variety of master classes to suit everyone from the amateur to the enthusiast. Our master classes are very hands on and cover a variety of disciplines from art and food to horticulture.
You can purchase a gift voucher for our master classes and we have both illustrated gift vouchers and digital gift vouchers available.
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Following our root of being ‘green, environmentally friendly and sustainable', we use eco-kraft boxes that are FSC approved and do not use any plastic in the posting of our products.
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Customer review:
"I would like to thank the person who packed my box of seeds, it was so carefully sealed with tape in the most exact and neat way I have ever received a packet or parcel! Amazing! They deserve a gold star."
Local pick-up from the herb farm is available, please choose the option at checkout. You can collect your orders any weekday between 8:30 am and 4 pm.
Postage, apart from our Culinary Herb Boxes, is by Royal Mail.
Free standard postage in the UK for orders over £85 (inc. VAT)*.
*after any discounts applied.
For orders to be delivered outside the UK, we strongly advise checking with your local customs office prior to placing the order online. Please note, for seed orders, our seeds have UK Plant Passports and carry the information required by the UK’s seed marketing regulations. However, we do not issue phytosanitary (health) certificates (PC). International orders are placed at your (the customers) risk.
Update 6th December 2024: We have paused shipping to Europe and Northern Ireland whilst we understand the new GPSR rules. Thank you for your patience whilst we work out the implications.
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(N.B. For herb plant collections, please see our Looking Good Herb List and submit a herb plant enquiry.)