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NATURE Today's Child

WHETHER YOU LIVE ON A PLOT OR FARM, IN A TOWNHOUSE OR FLAT – THE

ENCHANTING WORLD OF BEEHIVES, HONEY EXTRACTION, BEE COURSES AND BAKED

GOODS ARE ALL AVAILABLE TO YOU. HERE ARE THE BASICS TO GET YOU GOING.

here are specific by-laws for register with the South African Bee TOOLS AND TREASURES
beekeeping, stipulated by Industry Organisation (SABIO) so Beginner beekeeping courses in South
the Metropolitan Municipality that their set-up is in accordance Africa offer a hands-on experience
Public Health. You can’t own with the regulation standards. This is where all tools, suits and hives are
Ta hive on your balcony in the to ensure that all bees are cared for provided to obtain the best practical
suburbs, for example, but you can go on and to prevent accidents or injuries to experience. Basic tools and equipment
an epic bee keeping course and tend one’s neighbours. If you can’t meet include a beehive box, a colony, a bee
to a hive away from home. For plot and the beekeeping regulations but still queen, a bee suit, a bee brush and a
farm dwellers, here is a brief overview of want to be part of the ‘magic’, join a smoker.
the current laws: beekeeping training course that will
teach you how to understand bee
No person may keep bees on any language, harvest honey, and obtain Treat yourself and your family to the
premises unless that person is the hands-on experience in the field. treasures of your hive by investing
holder of a permit authorising this in honey extraction equipment. This
activity, and every beehive is situated: enables the making your own skincare
products and delicious baked goods.
• a minimum of five metres from any • Pretoria: https://www.bhive.co.za/
boundary of the premises; product-category/beekeeping- Have you ever tried raw honeycomb?

• a minimum of twenty metres from any courses/ This is a natural product made by
honey bees to store honey and pollen,
public place or building used for human • Johannesburg and Cape Town: or house their young. It consists of a
habitation or from any place used for the https://beeware.co.za/beginner- series of hexagonal cells constructed
keeping of animals; and beekeeping-course/
from beeswax, which generally
• the bees are kept in an approved • Western Cape: https://www. contains raw honey. It is loaded with
beehive located in an area inaccessible honeywoodfarm.co.za/about/bee- incredible nutrients and delicious to
to children and animals, kept in the courses eat.
shade at all times, and supplied with
a source of drinking water within five • KwaZulu-Natal: https:// Did you know? You can purchase a
metres of the hive. bushveldbees.co.za/training/ queen bee and colony to easily begin
your bee keeping journey.
It is important for beekeepers to

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