Victoria's Honey Bee site hosted by
Barry's Bees
Victoria BC, Canada
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250 213.2894
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Barry the BeeMaster Barry
is a local beekeeper serving the Greater Victoria area on the southern end of Vancouver Island, BC Canada. He is an accredited Bee Master in the province of British Columbia and BCHPA certified instructor of Beginner's Beekeeping. Barry has been actively keeping bees for more than 15 years throughout the South Islands.

Training is an integral part of the support program we provide to beekeepers of the south islands of British Columbia. We currently offer courses for several aspects of beekeeping. All courses include field experience as well as classroom time. We also provide an on going private consulting service for additional on site training.

 
Queen Rearing Simplified - ($255.00)
Starting Tuesday, April 29 at 7 pm, 2025
This course is now avaiulable for online registration
This course is an introduction to queen rearing for the backyard beekeeper. To register fo 2025, please download the info/registration form by clicking here or go directly to the on-line registration form.

Course Requirements:

You must have at least 3 years of beekeeping experience and be sufficiently at ease to work live bees with your bare hands.

Course Description:

The course offers participants theory in a webinar format. The course is comprised of 5 webinar sessions of 2 1/2 hours each for a total of 12.5 hrs. It is assumed students are at an Intermediate level of beekeeing with sufficient resources to raise queens at home during the course.

Course Objective:

This course is intended to develop your understanding and implementation of queen rearing for the backyard beekeeper.

Curriculum:
  • The honeybee society, Honey bee physiology, Queen rearing techniques
  • Time line for the South Islands
  • Preparing the Queen cell building hive, IPM, Bee health
  • Preparing the Queen rearing hive, IPM, Bee health
  • Grafting larvae and raising pupa
  • Mating and assessment
  • Putting it all together

Notes:

For detailed course information and registration form please click on a dated link to download the 2 page pdf file.
Consulting
Private consulting session for beekeepers around Greater Victoria are available on a fee for service basis. Please EMail me to inquire for a time and rates or call directly on my HotLine at 250 900-5133.

Beginner's
Beekeeping
2025
Intermediate
Beekeeping
2025
Introductory
Queen Rearing
2025

Webinar Format
  • Section 1 on Tuesday eveneings at 7 pm, April 29 and May 6, 13, 20 ending on the 27th