18/07/2024
Would you like to learn beekeeper and live in the Sale area of Cheshire?
There is a fantastic FREE opportunity to learn beekeeper for someone who can commit the time to learning and managing the colonies.
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🐝🐝We are looking for another beekeeper to help look after the two colonies of honeybees that we keep at the Walton Road Allotment apiary from next year!🐝🐝
Beekeeping is hard work and requires flexible and consistent commitment to keep them safe, healthy and productive. For this reason, we are planning to provide full training and equipment for commitment to learning and putting in the time to manage the colonies with another experienced beekeeper.
We plan on recruiting someone who can spare around 2 or 3 hours a week between January and April to learn the theory of beekeeping followed by 2 or 3 hours per week between April and October, inspecting the colonies, preventing swarming, starvation and poor health, record taking, treating for parasites, making frames, cleaning and painting hives, extracting honey, sterilising jars, jarring, labelling and selling honey at the allotment. All the funds raised from honey pay for training, insurance, membership and hive, colony and apiary maintenance.
It's a commitment and hard work which may require flexibility depending on the weather and how the season is. You will get stung occasionally and there are times when you need to make the right decision for the sake of the colony and the other bees in the area. It's also hot in a bee suit and you will need to lift heavy boxes of honey stores!
In return for your time and commitment to learning and colony management, you will get your membership to the British Beekeepers Association which includes public liability, product liability and bee diseases insurance, 13 weeks of BeeEducated online theory training, weekly practical training by an experienced beekeeper, your bee suit and tools and an all expenses paid for day out to the BBKA spring convention and trade show in April 2025!
Many people are not aware of the commitment required to keep honeybee colonies properly in the UK and it is a commitment to doing things properly learning in depth about the workings of the hive and dedication to weekly inspections and maintenance that makes a good beekeeper. Our bees deserve the best beekeeper and for this reason, we will only be giving this opportunity to someone who can commit more than the minimum and is passionate about developing their knowledge and skills in beekeeping over the years going forward. YOU WILL NEVER KNOW EVERYTHING AND WILL BE CONSTANTLY LEARNING!
If you would like to be considered for this opportunity, please send an email to [email protected] explaining why you would like to become a beekeeper at the apiary in Sale, what availability you will have next year, why you would make a good beekeeper and your contact details and we will be in touch by 30th September 2024. We will reply to all emails!
Thank you!
