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StartHow to Use Those Herbs and Flowers that Bees Love for Your Own Health and Wellness
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Raising Honeybees Without Sugar
and Without Sacrificing Honey Production
Course Summary
In this workshop you'll learn:
- Why bee keepers feed sugar to honeybees
- You’ll do an exercise to determine the periods of dearth in your region
- You’ll gain some important insight into plants you can use to naturally feed your honeybees so you won’t need to feed sugar
- You’ll understand natural sources of pollen and nectar and how they supply essential nutrients and phytonutrients to bees over the long season
- You’ll learn the best way to balance honey production and the needs of the bees
- You’ll make a back up plan to feed the bees when your season is short and the weather doesn’t cooperate.
Course Curriculum
Chris Dalziel
Chris Dalziel is the founder of the popular websites, JoybileeFarm.com and the membership site DIY Herbal Fellowship. Chris empowers her readers to grow their own food and medicine and preserve it so that they can confidently provide for their families. She is a grandmother, teacher, author, gardener, herbalist, and homesteader. She is the author of The Dehydrator Cookbook for Beginners (2022, Rockridge Press), The Beeswax Workshop (2017, Ulysses Press), and Homegrown Healing from Seed to Apothecary (2016, Joybilee Media) Chris believes in giving her readers a quick win, because each quick win builds confidence and empowers self-reliance.
Chris and her husband live in the mountains of British Columbia with their two dogs and a cat.
I am planning a Botanical Garden for our property ... it is planned to be located right next to our bee hives! This session has been so helpful and inspiring! SO MUCH GREAT INFO!!!
Thank you so much Chris! As I plan to have a hive this was VERY informative and I cannot wait to fully fill out my workbook before I get there, I am sure it will help me make sure I am doing all I can for my little bees!
