2.4 Bee Keeping

• The importance of bee keeping
• Factors to consider in siting an apiary
• Stocking a hive
• Safe apiary management practices
• Harvesting honey

• explain the factors to consider in siting an apiary
• describe the process of stocking a hive
• carry out safe apiary management practices
• demonstrate the honey harvesting process

“How are bees reared?”

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1. Bee keeping
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Rearing bees for honey: why bee keeping is valuable, how to site an apiary and stock a hive, how to manage bees safely, and how to harvest honey.
2. The honey bee colony on Kenyan farms
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Queen, workers and drones of the African honey bee, and why their caste duties matter to a farm apiary.
3. Hive types on Kenyan farms
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Log hive, Kenya Top Bar Hive and Langstroth compared for cost, harvest and school-farm use.
4. Siting an apiary on the farm
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Factors that decide where hives go on a Kenyan farm: forage, water, shade, people and spray.
5. Stocking a hive
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   How a Kenyan farmer gets bees into an empty hive: baiting, catching a swarm, and splitting a colony.
6. Safe apiary management
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Protective clothing, the smoker, gentle inspections, pests on Kenyan farms, and feeding in drought.
7. Harvesting and handling honey
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   How to take only capped surplus comb, extract and store honey, and keep wax as a second product.
8. Bees, pollination and farm income
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   How apiaries raise yields of coffee, mango, avocado and sunflower, and how honey becomes a small farm enterprise.