Beecentric Hive

Make friends with sixty-thousand stinging insects!

I'm running a Community Beekeeping Course for the future beekeepers in your life. Make friends with sixty-thousand stinging insects!

Online Courses and Community for Small-Scale and Backyard Beekeepers 🐝🌻

The Bee Community The Bee Community supports small-scale and backyard beekeepers with classes and networking opportunities so that we can manage our bees according to biology and our values.

Hello, Present and Future Beekeepers,

I have been teaching in-person, online, and hands-on beekeeping courses for many years and have always wanted to create more opportunities for hobby beekeepers.

This is why I'm excited to share The Bee Community - a space that supports small-scale and backyard beekeepers with classes and networking opportunities to manage honeybees using techniques that align with nature.

https://www.bee.community/

All About Honeybees is for anyone interested in learning more about our fuzzy friends.

While this course touches on the act of beekeeping, it is intended to provide a foundational understanding of honeybee evolution, biology, anatomy, society, casts, and seasonal changes.

Participants may choose to take three additional classes to complete a beekeeping certificate.

All About Honeybees - Online Course All About Honeybees is for anyone interested in learning more about our fuzzy friends. While this course touches on the act of beekeeping, it is intended to provide a foundational understanding of honeybee evolution, biology, evolution, anatomy, society, casts, and seasonal changes within honeybee c...

Awn Kitchen has been amazingly supportive of Beecentric Hive and the beekeeping classes that I run - actually, Awn Kitchen is an all-around champion of local food! Check them out!

I know many of you love to follow the adventures of my backyard bees. I first started to learn about bees in 2018 when I took a beekeeping course with Dustin Bajer.
The following spring I eagerly picked up my Beecentric Hive from Dustin a few weeks later I picked up my first bees and that started my fascination and adventures with these incredible insects. Like many small businesses Dustin has had to pivot and is now teaching online, his courses are now available to register for on his website. He teaches a course to learn the ins and outs of backyard beekeeping as well as a course about honeybees! He’s an incredible teacher engaging with students all while making it feel like a doable hobby! Whether you want to learn more about honeybees start your backyard beekeeping adventure or have a friend or family member that’s keen to learn, Dustin’s courses have you covered. A great Christmas gift idea too that’s supporting local. Head to his page for more info.

Thank you for supporting local businesses, Metro Continuing Education

What's all the buzz about?! Why, it's our first ever Community Partner Gift Guide featuring some of the most unique gifts ever! Check it out here: http://ow.ly/64Ct50CDgO2. 🐝🎁 Learn more about two of our community partners that are seriously, the bee's knees:

Beecentric Hives are a locally-designed and made creation of local beekeeper and ecologically-inspired designer, Dustin Bajer. As a passionate urban beekeeper, he manages beehives for the Edmonton Valley Zoo, the Edmonton Expo Center, and the Northlands Youth Beekeeping Club. He also teaches beekeeping courses with us at Metro! 🐝

Beaverhill Bird Observatory - BBO is an independent, nonprofit education and research station situated east of Edmonton. Since 1984, they have been monitoring migratory and breeding bird populations, undertaking habitat enhancement products, and educating the public about birds, conservation and climate change. One of the things they offered up for this gift guide is the chance to meet a raptor from the comfort of your own backyard (Peregrine Falcon or a Northern Saw-whet Owl). It's sure to be a hoot! 🦉

Online beekeeping courses with January start dates!
Complete all four classes and receive a beekeeping certificate.

Online Beekeeping Course - Spring 2021 Online Beekeeping Course. Recognized by the cities of Edmonton/Leduc, Alberta. 12 hours of instruction and access to a community of practice.