Originally Posted by
fatshark
We have a mentoring and 'beginners get priority' scheme already. However, with even experienced beekeepers losing many colonies over winter, there is going to be a shortfall. I overwintered queens but could only produce strong nucs now by sacrificing my queen rearing colonies for this season. Since I'm intending to scale up queen rearing this year that is not an option. I'm hoping a combination of managing expectations and - in due course - providing good quality nucs with local/native queens will work. In the meantime we're discussing a mentoring scheme spanning two seasons - getting beginners from nuc to overwintered full colony and then through to splitting off their own nuc the following year (all in the association apiary).
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