Hello to all. Please allow me to introduce myself.

I have had an interest in beekeeping for a number of years and would like to learn more about it. I would also like to take the qualifications at some point in the future. I find the recent CCD issue very alarming, as I'm sure everyone here does. I would like to try and do my part to help preserve something so small but so important to our environment and indeed our food supplies. I would also like to pass this knowledge onto my children if they share an interest. I would feel a complete failure if they thought their food grew in plastic bags and jars on farm Tesco!

I would be very grateful to anyone who would be willing to offer any advice on where or how I should start out. I'm limited to a back garden with a young daughter who has an insatiable curiosity so hives at home is not an option at the moment. If there is anyone in the Falkirk/Stirling area who would be willing to take on an apprentice, I would be more than happy to hear from them.

Best regards,

Ian