A Day Down the Microscope
No suits, no smoke, just a bench and two microscopes: a bee taken apart wing by wing in the morning, and an afternoon learning to read the pollen fingerprint that tells you what is really in a jar of honey.
beekeeping courses
Conference 2026: The Good, the Bad, and the Sticky
Year two at the Ulster Beekeepers Association Conference – how Mum and Bee Girl divided and conquered, what we learned about native Irish bees, chemical-free beekeeping, and why the best learning happens after the lecture.
What We Learned at the RANDBKA Introduction to Bees Course
Before we got our bees, before we bought a single piece of equipment, we did the one thing that every beginner beekeeper should do: we took a course. The Randalstown & District Beekeepers Association (RANDBKA) runs an Introduction to Bees course, and it was genuinely one of the best things we’ve done. Here’s what we … Read more