Central Texas Beekeepers School Now Accepting Students
Students at the Bee School can suit up and watch while a hive of live bees is opened and inspected. The school will be held April 1 in Brenham.
Learn how to produce your own honey and help save the bees by attending the Thirteenth Annual Central Texas Beekeepers School on Saturday, April 1 at Brenham High School in Brenham, Texas. The school is open to the public for anyone interested in keeping bees or who wants to learn about bees.
You can provide your family with this natural sweetener, increase the number of bees to help pollinate our gardens and help the dwindling bee population by raising bees in your back yard, even in populated areas. Most cities allow at least two bee hives per home depending on the size of your lot. You can contact your city offices for regulations in your area.
While attending the school, you will learn the parts of the hive, how to build or assemble your equipment, how to install bees, the proper procedure for lighting a smoker and how to inspect your bees. You will learn how to dress to minimize the possibility of being stung and what to do if you are stung.
One of the most popular features of the school is the ability to observe a hive of bees while it is opened and inspected. Weather permitting, you can “suit up” and be present while an experienced beekeepers completes this operation. Participants will see how to extract honey and how to care for it before you eat it or give it to your family or friends.
Early admission to the school is $85 for the first adult and $80 for additional adults in the family. Cost for students above 12 (including college students) is $35. Children under the age of 12 attending classes with a parent are $15. Registration fees increase after March 29. All local and state Covid protocols at the time of the school will be observed. We will monitor the health situation and will keep registrants informed.
The school starts at 8:00 a.m. and will be over at 5:00 p.m. The cost of the school includes a catered Bar-B-Q meal with Blue Bell Ice Cream and a “school book” with information about beekeeping. Door prizes will be given away and a drawing to give away complete bee hives will be held at 5 p.m.
To register go to: www.tinyurl.com/2023BeeSchool. To receive our newsletter, go to www.centraltexasbeekeepers.org. For more information, call (979) 277-0411 or email: centraltexasbeekeepers@gmail.com. This event is not sponsored by Brenham High School or Brenham ISD.
The Central Texas Beekeepers meets the 4th Thursday of each month at 6:30 p.m. at the Washington County Fairgrounds in Brenham. Anyone interested in beekeeping is welcome at the meetings.