Top Bar Bee Keeping & Hives Introductory Class 30th March 2014
• Natural
• Sustainable
• Local
• Gentle
Text or Ring: 0873284762
Many honey producers are placing nearly all of the current problems with the decline in local bee populations as well as some of the issues faced by agriculture today, on the way bees have been reared and kept during the past century.
Basically, natural beekeeping involves less intervention (or none), using native species of bees, providing hives that suit bees more than humans, letting the bees do what they do best and not extracting all the honey in any one season. This system when combined with other natural practices such as organic farming becomes a conservation project and part of the solution to ensure thriving local populations of bees.
Top Bar Hives, as these have been used for well over a thousand years, are more bee friendly and are easy to maintain. They also appear to support the low intervention approach as they are sturdier, house varying populations of bees and allow the bees to produce varying types of comb. In the effort of sustainability, many honey producers believe that this low-tech approach “may mean accepting lower honey production per colony in return for healthier bees.”
Max and April Danann are Bee Keepers using only Top Bar Hives and a natural approach to apiary.
o Top Bar Hives building courses available
o Custom made to fit frames
o Nucs can be ordered
o Courses and Training
1:00 to 5:30 pm
€45 (adult), €25 children with adult attending
To book your place text or ring 087 328 4762
Please email, text or ring to order your Top Bar Bee Hives
Mob: 087 328 4762 email: maxdanann@gmail.com
Top Bar Bee Keeping 30th March 2014, Leap
