Beek Hybrid Apprenticeship Deposit

$200.00

Our apprenticeship is now offered as a hybrid program! This new format will allow for more flexibility, recorded workshop sessions available on-demand, and shorter weekend commitments to help meet the demands of busy schedules! You can can choose from:

  • online workshop only
  • returning apprentices can choose the practical only
  • or pair the online workshops with the hands-on practical for the most complete experience!

Note that you are paying the deposit for the program only. After deposit, we will contact you to set up payment for the balance.  If you choose to pay in full, you will save $50 if you select one of the stand-alone components  or  $100 off if you sign up for the apprenticeship and the practical together. To take advantage of savings, payment in full must be received within 30 days of registration. Payment plans can entail up to 4 total payments. Apprenticeship deposits are NOT REFUNDABLE. If you have any questions, please email us at info@twohiveshoney.com BEFORE you purchase!

Beekeeping Apprenticeship includes:

  • 8 live 3-hour online workshops
  • 8 optional one -hour office hour sessions
  • 30+ total hours of instruction
  • “For the Bees”, Tara’s new beekeeping book mailed to your home address

Price: $650

Beekeeping Practical includes:

  • 6 hands-on practical sessions at the Honey Ranch, for a total of 25 hours of instruction
  • Choose to take the practical alongside the beek apprenticeship OR take it later as a stand alone component once you have completed the beek apprenticeship.  Are you a past apprentice looking to get more hands-on experience? Any apprentices can choose to retake the practical component again!
  • Full ventilated beekeeping suit, gloves, hive tool, smoker, bee brush (If you already have any of these items, or you would like to downgrade to just a jacket and veil, we will adjust your final payment schedule so you save money on what you already own!)
  • Refreshments each session

Price: $1,150

Beekeeping Apprenticeship + Beekeeping Practical

  • More than 60 hours of total instruction
  • Buy both together and save $150!

Price: $1,650

Please see below for additional info, session dates,  and full agenda for each session. 

 

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Description

Schedule and Agenda for the Beek Apprenticeship and Practical:

All times are in Central Standard Time. Once you register we will provide you access to a google calendar with all dates and times! 

Beek Apprentices Workshops (Virtual Sessions held on Wednesdays and Thursdays)

Sessions will be recorded and available for several weeks after live airing in case you can’t make the live session! Each month you will receive a link to a password protected website with readings ahead of each session that you will be expected to complete before class.

Session 1: February 27, 2025 6-9pm CST

Introductions, Honey Bee Biology + Behavior, Honey Bee Equipment and Tools, 

OPTIONAL Office Hours: March 19, 7-8pm

Session 2 April 3, 2025 6-9pm 

Hive Inspection 101, Lighting Your Smoker, Setting up your Site

OPTIONAL Office Hours: April 16, 7-8pm

Session 3: April 24, 2025 6-9pm 

Honey Bee Nutrition, Installing Nucs + Packages, Catching and Baiting Swarms, 

OPTIONAL Office Hours: May 7, 7-8pm

Session 4: May 14, 2025 6-9pm 

Queen Bee Biology, Preventing Swarming, Making Splits and Combines

OPTIONAL Office Hours: May 28, 2024 7-8pm 

Session 5: June 12, 2025 6-9pm 

Honey Bee Pheromones, Properties of Honey, Nectar Flows, Honey Crystallization 

OPTIONAL Office Hours: June 25, 7-8pm

Session 6: July 10, 2025 6-9pm

Removing Bees from Supers, Honey Extraction, Working with Beeswax, Making Products from Propolis

OPTIONAL Office Hours: July 23, 7-8pm

Session 7: Aug 14, 2025 6-9pm

Robbing Bees, Integrated Pest Management, Testing for Varroa Mites

OPTIONAL Office Hours: Aug 27, 7-8pm

Session 8 Sept 11, 2025, 6-9pm 

Winter Preparation, The Business of Beekeeping, TBD

OPTIONAL Office Hours: September 24 7-8pm

 

Beek Practical Sessions: Held in person at the Honey Ranch in Austin, TX (Saturdays and Sundays)

If you need to miss a session, you can make up to 2 sessions with a later group!

Please keep in mind that the hands-on practical is a VERY dynamic program, and we stay flexible to allow you the most complete experience available.  For example, if we get a swarm call nearby the night before a practical, we will alert you all via phone of the change in schedule so we can divert and you can experience a swarm capture! Below is a syllabus whose content can change based on new unique opportunities presented to us.

Practical 1: Mar 2, 2025, 1-5pm

Building Equipment and General Familiarization, Honey Bee Colony Familiarization, Work Bees

Practical #2 April 6, 2025 1-5pm

Lighting your Smoker, Moving the Equipment in a Bee Yard, Performing Hive Inspections, Work Bees 

Practical #3 April 27, 2025 9am-1pm

Installing Bees, Making Sugar Syrup + Pollen Patties, Hanging + Baiting Swarm Traps

Practical #4 May 17, 2025  9am-1pm

Making Nucs, “Low-Tech” Queen Rearing, Nectar Flow Checklist, Work Bees

Practical #5 July 12, 2025  9am-1pm

Honey Extraction, Using a Fume Board, Making Products from Beeswax 

Practical #6  Sep 14, 2025, 9-1pm

Winter Preparation, Feeding Fall Bees, Testing for Varroa, Work Bees

Additional information

Attribute

Beek Apprenticeship (8 virtual sessions and 30+ hours) $650, Beek Practical (6 in person sessions and 24 hours of hands on instruction, for returning beeks) $1150, Beek Apprenticeship + Practical (8 virtual sessions + 6 sessions at the Honey Ranch + Tools and Equipment Package, 55+ hours of instruction $1,650)