Beekeeping Project

The 4-H Beekeeping Project helps youth learn about bees and how to be a beekeeper. Beekeeping offers many hands-on educational experiences, from learning about bees and nectar to learning to raise bees and produce honey.

Level 1, Understanding the Honey Bee covers:

• The types of bees
• Honey and wax produced by the bees
• Plants that attract bees
• Equipment a beekeeper needs

Level 2, Working with Honey Bees covers:

• Youth acquire a colony of bees
• Learn how to care for their bees and the hive throughout the year
• Basic beekeeping operations
• Production of extracted, chunk or cut comb honey

Level 3, Advanced Beekeeping Methods covers:

• Increasing your honey bee colonies
• Honey production
• Producing specialized honey
• Learn more about bee societies
• Manage bee diseases and parasites