Centre for Ecological Apiculture


 

Courses in technique of organic / ecological Top bar hive beekeeping Deutsch 

crash course and distance course organic / natural and bee-friendly top bar hive beekeeping  / Traineeship (certification courses)

If you want to start a beekeeping enterprise next year, it is useful to join our classes (practical crash-course and distance course) already this year. Natural beekeeping without cruelty to animals, without frames, wire in the combs, artificial parts of the comb, smoke and expensive equipment. Become a member or partner-apiary of Centre for ecological Apiculture!

Here you'll find everything you need as a beginner: Courses, also distance courses, classes in natural top bar beekeeping, training and study courses to become a certified Partner-beekeeper, beekeeping supplies such as top bar hive, equipment for disease control, natural beeswarms and further beekeeping equipment.

Notice: For some courses (#62) registration deadline is: 2010 / September / 30

More Infos: Centre for ecological Apiculture and natural Apitherapy (contact DI Michael Thiele: Tel. +49 5652917899, 
Fax: +49 32223740527)


 
 
 
 
 

 


Did you know that the Centre for Ecological Apiculture and it's partner beeleepers are the only Institution in Germany where bees are being kept solely in top bar hives and allowed to draw out their combs themselves without frames, in contrast to bees from beekeepers who need to get along with plastic combs in plastic hives, wood frames, artificial wax or foundation and wire or even need to live in socalled "skyscaperhives" together with up to six (!) queens per colony?

Did you know that the Centre for Ecological Apiculture is the only Institution worldwide who offers a Traineeship how to get certified according standards of Social Medicine / Natural Apitherapy Research Center?

For beginners it is also possible to purchase Top bar hives constructed according standards of Centre for ecological Apiculture. Tel. +49 (0) 5652 917899

You want to get certified according standards of Centre for Social Medicine and Natural Apitherapy?  Please go to: Certificate courses for beginners and professionals in organic / ecological Beekeeping


# 19 First lessons in cruelty free organic / ecological top bar hive beekeeping. Beekeeping for beginner, biodynamic top bar hive beekeeping - (distance / internet course) without certificate


27. revisited and updated edition 2010

This course is useful together with a practical apiary course. You may register for this course also outside the beekeeping season. And in contrast to a book you have the possibillity to receive e-mail support by our training team during your beginning of beekeeping naturally. Also if you want to change from mainstream beekeeping to top bar hive beekeeping, this distance course offers useful hints.

For this course you also don't need to pay semester fees. 

All what you need to know  - useful in connection with practical one-day-courses
including self-test: Is my apiary suitable for organic beekeeping, beekeeping considering the character of bees?
How to become a certified beekeeper of centre for ecological Apiculture?
How to get certified according standards of Social Medicine / Natural Apitherapy Research Center?
Check out if your apiary type is suitable for organic / ecological top bar hive beekeeping

First lessons in organic / ecological api culture:
on Location of bees colonies, 
suitable landscapes for organic / ecological beekeeping
on the character of bees, 
bee hive, Top bar hive, how to change from framehive-beekeeping to
top bar hive beekeeping?
maintaining honeybees' health, 
preventive measures and disease control, varroaresitence
how to obtain a good practice in harvesting run honey, comb in the comb, 
propolis, beebread, beewax, royal jelly without cruelty to the beecolony, 
without residuals;
how to handle bees, 
how to find the right time to go to the bees,
processing, materials, filling, 
The science of honey
Honey quality, how do we know that beeproduce such as propolis, 
beebread, comb honey, run honey, royal jelly and beeswax are 
naturally pure and without residuals?
chemical and physical analysis of honey and other beeproduce, 
contents of honey, 
residuals in honey, propolis, and other beehive products;
how to become a certified apiary of the Centre for ecological Apiculture;
How to get certified according standards of Social Medicine / 
Natural Apitherapy Research Center?
on how to storage honey, 
what does the Top bar hive beekeeper needs in the beginning? 
On organic / ecological top bar hive beekeeping equipment, supplies and tools; 
Construction plan for Top bar hive designed in Centre for ecological Apiculture; 

Application possible every day. Just print out application form, complete 
and send back via regular post, fax or e-mail to centre for ecological Apiculture.

Fax: +49 (0) 32223740527
register@thiele-und-thiele-consult.de
Application form
Membership infos


# 37 practical apiary course ("crash-course") - without certificate


Become aquainted with organic / ecological beekeeping in a top bar hive!

You'll learn more, if you subscribe for distance course # 19 (First lessons in organic / ecological top bar hive beekeeping. Beekeeping for beginner, biodynamic top bar hive beekeeping - distance / internet course) before starting practical "One-day-information-course"

More Information on "one-day-information-course"

Just print out application form, complete and send back via regular post, fax or e-mail to Centre for ecological Apiculture.

Fax: +49 (0) 32223740527
register@thiele-und-thiele-consult.de
Application form
Membership infos


# 62: Traineeship / hands-on training / instruction courses in the centre for ecological apiculture: How to get certified according standards of Social Medicine / Natural Apitherapy Research Center? (# 62)


Did you know that the Centre for Ecological Apiculture is the only Institution worldwide who offers a Traineeship for becoming a certified apiary of Centre for ecological Apiculture?

Duration: two Semester 
This hands-on training is useful for beginners as well as for those beekeepers who are fed up with mainstream beekeeping and want to become partner-apiary of the Centre for ecological Apiculture. 

This training is also useful for students and sideliners.

By the way more and more partner-apiaries are needed, that means those who are successful applicants of final class and graduated in organic / natural top bar hive beekeeping (#62)!

All what you need to know :
Lessons on Location of bees colonies, 
suitable landscapes for organic / ecological beekeeping
on the character of bees, 
how to manage Top bar hives, 
maintaining honeybees' health, 
preventive measures and disease control, varroaresitence
how to obtain a good practice in honey harvest, 
how to handle bees, 
how to find the right time to go to the bees, 
Honey quality, how to obtain pure comb honey, pollen, propolis
Lessons on processing, 
materials, filling, sieving, filtration, 
on how to storage honey, 
discussion of  our standards in beekeeping
considering the character of bees.

Lessons on what does the beekeeper need in the beginning? 
On equipment and tools;
on simple hives mainly used in the world, especially Top bar hives; 
how to produce comb honey, run honey, propolis, royal jelly, beesbread, beeswax according standards of Centre for ecological Apiculture;
Maintaining honeybees' health; 
disease control with organic acids 
On price calculation in this sector for high quality products

Lessons on beekeeping considering the character of bees; 
what happens in a beecolony? 
On drones, queens, workers, communication; 
on population during the year, 
on temperature control and critical temperature for the honeybee; 
what do I need to know, if I want to work together with the bees in order to strengthen the colony? 
How can I work with the bees without doing an assault upon the colony? 
On comb spacing, combs, inspection of the hives, 
swarm prevention/management and control, 
making new colonies within swarming mood; 
what are possible results of artificial queen rearing ("grafting")? 
On telluric and extratelluric forces according M. Thun; 

More information on how to get certified according standards of Social Medicine / Natural Apitherapy Research Center please go to: Practical Certificate Courses in organic / ecological top bar hive Beekeeping

Registration form



# 40 Organic / ecological top bar hive beekeeping. Apiary courses for beginners (practical course) - without certificate

Duration: 3 days.

Registration form



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