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NATURE
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 It is important for beekeepers to TOOLS AND TREASURES
beekeeping, stipulated by register with the South African Bee Beginner beekeeping courses in South
the Metropolitan Municipality Industry Organisation (SABIO) so that Africa offer a hands-on experience
TPublic Health. You can’t own their set-up is in accordance with where all tools, suits and hives are
a hive on your balcony in the suburbs, the regulation standards. This is to provided to obtain the best practical
for example, but you can go on an epic ensure that all bees are cared for and experience. Basic tools and equipment
bee keeping course and tend to a hive to prevent accidents or injuries to include a beehive box, a colony, a bee
away from home. For plot and farm one’s neighbours. If you can’t meet queen, a bee suit, a bee brush and a
dwellers, here is a brief overview of the beekeeping regulations but still smoker.
the current laws: want to be part of the ‘magic’, join a
beekeeping training course that will Treat yourself and your family to the
No person may keep bees on any teach you how to understand bee treasures of your hive by investing
premises unless that person is the language, harvest honey, and obtain in honey extraction equipment.
holder of a permit authorising this hands-on experience in the field. This enables the making your own
activity, and every beehive is situated: skincare products and delicious
• a minimum of five metres from any • Pretoria: https://www.bhive. baked goods.
boundary of the premises; co.za/product-category/ Have you ever tried raw honeycomb?
• a minimum of twenty metres from beekeeping-courses/ This is a natural product made by
any public place or building used for • Johannesburg and Cape Town: honey bees to store honey and pollen,
human habitation or from any place https://beeware.co.za/beginner- or house their young. It consists of a
used for the keeping of animals; and beekeeping-course/ series of hexagonal cells constructed
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 honeywoodfarm.co.za/about/bee- incredible nutrients and delicious to
inaccessible to children and animals, courses eat.
kept in the shade at all times, and • KwaZulu-Natal: https://
supplied with a source of drinking bushveldbees.co.za/training/ Did you know? You can purchase a
water within five metres of the hive. queen bee and colony to easily begin
your bee keeping journey.
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