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Beekeeper, Adrian Iodice, is holding up a Kenyan top bar hive frame of honeycomb, showing five class participants a piece of honeycomb covered in bees.
Natural Beekeeper, Adrian Iodice, with open hands towards a Kenyan Top Bar Hive. He is explaining the positioning of the hive.
A close-up shot shows numerous bees crawling on a section of golden honeycomb.
A close-up shot shows numerous bees crawling on a section of golden honeycomb.
Six adult course participants, standing behind two newly built Kenyan Top Bar Hives.
A close up view of several bees, clustered on a piece of honeycomb inside a Kenyan Top Bar Hive.
Beekeeper, Adrian Iodice, is carefully inspecting a frame of honeycomb covered with bees inside a wooden Kenyan Top Bar Hive.
Two fair-skinned hands are carefully lifting a frame of golden honeycomb densely covered with dark bees out of a light-colored wooden Kenyan Top Bar Hive. The hive is open, revealing multiple top bars and another frame of honeycomb with bees below. The setting is outdoors in a sunny environment with blurred green foliage in the background. The focus is on the delicate process of inspecting the bee colony and their honeycomb within this type of natural beehive. The bees appear to be Western honey bees (Apis mellifera).

About the Course

Learn the fundamentals of Natural, Bee Centric, Organic, Beekeeping practices and theories

This unique course will inspire a reverence for the miraculous, wordless lives of honey bees whose complex communal patterns and systems draw us into more sacred connections to life, nature and community.

Adrian shares an intimate knowledge and love for bees, and the skills learned are both practical and spiritual.

You will leave with the confidence to start caring for your own bee colony, the capacity to catch and relocate a swarm, as well as insight into how caring for bees can open us to a greater understanding of life.

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A selection of various Kenyan top bar Hive images framed inside honeycomb shapes. Some are close-ups and some are images of Adrian teaching beekeeping courses.

About the Course

Learn the fundamentals of Natural, Bee Centric, Organic, Beekeeping practices and theories

This unique course will inspire a reverence for the miraculous, wordless lives of honey bees whose complex communal patterns and systems draw us into more sacred connections to life, nature and community.

Adrian shares an intimate knowledge and love for bees, and the skills learned are both practical and spiritual.

You will leave with the confidence to start caring for your own bee colony, the capacity to catch and relocate a swarm, as well as insight into how caring for bees can open us to a greater understanding of life.

enrol now

Who’s it for?

  • Beginner beekeepers wanting to understand the fundamentals of bee-centric bee-care

  • Experienced beekeepers wanting to explore a deeper, more natural, bee centric approach to beekeeping

  • Anyone wanting to deepen their connection to and appreciation of the miraculous lives of bees

Adrian Iodice is holding up a top bar with honeycomb covered in bees. Students close by are leaning in to see.
Adrian Iodice is holding up a top bar with honeycomb covered in bees. Students close by are leaning in to see.

What you’ll learn?

  • Developmental stages of the honey bee organism, (The Bee-ing).

  • The importance of natural honeycomb How to catch a swarm — and the equipment you’ll need

  • Where best to position a beehive

  • The healing products that Honey-bees provide

  • Kenyan topbar hive management techniques

  • Kenyan topbar hive management techniques

A detailed close-up shows a single Western honey bee (Apis mellifera) with a light brown and black striped abdomen, delicate translucent wings, and fuzzy thorax. It is positioned on a section of golden-brown honeycomb, with its head and front legs inside one of the hexagonal cells. The background is softly blurred.
A detailed close-up shows a single Western honey bee (Apis mellifera) with a light brown and black striped abdomen, delicate translucent wings, and fuzzy thorax. It is positioned on a section of golden-brown honeycomb, with its head and front legs inside one of the hexagonal cells. The background is softly blurred.

What’s included?

  • Comprehensive course notes

  • Plans to build your own Kenyan Top Bar Hive (Les Crowder version)

  • A full list of great books, web sites and films

  • Morning & afternoon teas with bread, butter and lots of raw homegrown honey

Adrian Iodice is pictured, carefully opening a wooden Kenyan Top Bar Hive. Bees are visible inside the hive and flying around the entrance. Adrian is preparing to inspect the hive.
Adrian Iodice is pictured, carefully opening a wooden Kenyan Top Bar Hive. Bees are visible inside the hive and flying around the entrance. Adrian is preparing to inspect the hive.
We loved the workshop and are filled with excitement to start our own natural beekeeping.
Anja Edler
Aldgate, South Australia

Meet the facililtator

Photo of Adrian Iodice smiling at camera.

Bees have such a beautiful nature; it doesn’t take much to fall in love with them.

~ Adrian Iodice

Adrian Iodice

Adrian Iodice has a deep passion for natural sustainable bee care. He started beekeeping with standard conventional Langstroth hives and since 2010, he began experimenting with and studying various hive designs.

Adrian is one of the pioneers of the ‘Natural beekeeping’ movement in Australia. In 2012 he studied biodynamic beekeeping at ‘Mellifera Centre for Organic Beekeeping’ in Rosenfeld, southern Germany. He has come to the conclusion that the ‘Kenyan top bar hive’ is the better hive suited to his needs and he feels that every ‘backyard beekeeper’ should truly consider the hive design they will eventually use for the wellbeing of their bees.

He teaches natural, sustainable beekeeping workshops all over Australia.

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FAQs

I loved the whole time. It was a lovely relaxed conversation as apposed to a lecture of data. The opportunity for each participant to chime in with questions was well managed and enjoyable. Thanks for all your expertise and encouragement.
Alison Gaffney
Nundubbermere, Queensland

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