Ray's Beginners Beekeeping
Video Course
Our one price video course will cover all the basics you need to get started in beekeeping, and make it through your first year. All New 3rd Edition for 2025 And when you purchase, it includes a 15 call with Ray to answer any questions you have.
Over 5 Hours of Instruction
Over 5 Hours of Instruction
Lifetime Access To All The Lessons and Demonstrations
FAQ - About Ray Beginners Video Course
- Topics Include:
- The Why of your beekeeping journey
- Bee Keeping Lingo
- Myths and Truths
- Must Know Bee Biology / Lifecycle
- Identifying Cells on a Frame
- Costs of beekeeping
- Time investment in beekeeping
- How many hives do I start with?
- Anatomy of a Hive
- Types of hives
- Tools & Equipment needed to start
- Dealing with Stings
- Buying Bees – packages vs. nucs
- Setting up your hives
- Frames: Waxing & Drawing out the Foundation
- How to install packages and nucs
- How to do Hive Inspections
- Feeding Your Bees
- Summer and winter solstice
- Wax moths, hive beetles
- Mite Testing
- Mite Control Methods
- Honey Production and extracting
- Making it through the first year.
- And more with new lessons being added.
Currently, the course includes about 5 hours of instruction, with new bonus material and demonstrations being added during the year.
- The current price is $79 for the entire course.
When you buy the course, you download a PDF file with a private link to and password the lessons.
Yes! There is a learning curve with beekeeping and this 5 star rated course will help you get through the first year and beyond.
Our students rate this course 5 stars! See the Google reviews here
You have a choice. You can watch classroom-style previous live classes, or you can watch individual lessons broken down into about 10 minutes each.
- Purchase the course. You will be given a password.
- Click here to go to the course menu - when you click a lesson it will ask for the password. Enter it and follow the directions.
