• First, you are just beginning and have little or no experience with keeping honey bees or you have some experience and want more.
• Second, you are in the process of gathering information to help you either buy your first hive or are gathering information to build upon what beekeeping experience you already have.
• You are eager to learn as much about beekeeping as you can.

Everyone must begin at something.  We don't suddenly wake up some morning and think, "Okay, I'm going down to the airport this morning and renting a plane and take it up for a little spin."  First,  you must have a death wish and second, no one in his/her right mind would rent a plane to you without lessons and instructor assistance.    But you can begin keeping bees without lessons or assistance from an instructor.  Many have gone it alone and learned bit by bit what worked and what didn't work.

This set of classes/lessons will in no way give you hands-on experience in keeping bees.  Only working with a hive of bees will give you that.  What these lessons/classes are intended to do is give you some basic understanding of what is involved in keeping bees.  No matter how long one has kept bees, he/she continues to learn more.   Bees are bees and keeping them has changed little since the introduction of moveable frames.    If you get stuck with not understanding something said in these lessons, you may email me at: stahlmanapiaries@aol.com.   Hopefully, I can help get you unstuck.   

By  Dana Stahlman