Online Beekeeping Course

You'll get access to:

• Immediate access to over 70 lessons featuring beekeeping lessons from beginner to advanced levels (focused on Flow Hive and Langstroth style beekeeping). 
• High-definition videos from beekeeping experts around the world. 
• The ability to log in and view course content at any time using your phone, tablet, laptop or desktop computer.
• Handy text summaries and downloads.
• Regular emails directing you to specific course content (unsubscribe any time).
• Premium beekeeping support via email.
• Optional assessment quizzes to help you to solidify your learning. 

The free trial period lasts for 30 days.

Our site will prompt you to enter payment information to sign up for your free trial period. You will need to enter either a valid credit card or PayPal account. We do not charge at the time of sign up. After your free trial period expires you will be billed monthly or yearly until you cancel your subscription.

Yes - no contract, no cancellation fees, no commitment.

It's easy to cancel online anytime - if you do so you will not be billed at the end of your current billing cycle (monthly/yearly), and at that point your access to the course content will be revoked.

[Note: If you've paid for a full year or more, it's possible to retain access to course content.]

To cancel your membership immediately, please send us an email.

Alternatively, you can cancel your membership through your account settings. Please note that this option is not available to members that subscribed on the Flow Hive checkout page. If you’re unsure, just contact us.

• Log into your account.
• Click on your Avatar in the top right of the page and select "Settings" from the drop-down menu.
• Select “Billing” on your account settings page.
• On the billing page, you can view your active subscriptions and payment method.
  
  

If you subscribed using a credit or debit card

• Click on your active subscription and select “Cancel this subscription” from the drop-down menu.

If you subscribed using PayPal

• Click on your active subscription and select “Cancel in PayPal” from the drop-down menu.

• You will then be redirected to the Payments tab in your PayPal account.
• Select “Beeinventive Pty Ltd” in the left sidebar and click “Cancel”.
• Confirm the cancellation.

You will maintain access to the course until the date of your next scheduled payment.

The course is organised into different modules, beginning with the absolute basics and progressing to more complex topics. As well as practical and advanced beekeeping lessons, there are modules on bee biology and behaviour.

The list of modules is: 

• Beekeeping Essentials - Everything you need to know to start your first hive
• A Bee’s World - How amazing and important these little creatures are

• How to take care of your bees - Practical tutorials on all things beekeeping
• Hive Health - Help your bees to stay protected and happy

• Honey + More - The sweet stuff, and other hive products
• Advanced Beekeeping - Elevate your skills in the apiary

View the entire Lesson Index here!

The course content is suitable for a wide variety of regions and climates. Most of the featured experts are based in the USA and Australia. We cover advice for overwintering in cold climates as well as ways to help your bees in very hot climates.

The list of featured experts currently includes:

• Professor Thomas Seeley, Author: Honeybee Democracy 
• Kirsten S. Traynor, PhD - Fullbright Fellow, author: Two Million Blossoms
• Michael Bush - Author: Practical Beekeeping I-III
• Professor Marla Spivak - University of Minnesota, MacArthur Fellow
• Hilary Kearney - Girl Next Door Honey
• Professor Dave Goulson - University of Sussex
• Randy Oliver - ScientificBeekeeping.com
• Professor Madeleine Beekman - University of Sydney
• Professor Ben Oldroyd - University of Sydney
• Dr. Nural Cokcetin - ithree Institute, University of Technology, Sydney
• Dr. Noah Wilson-Rich - The Best Bees Company
• Doug Purdie - The Urban Beehive
• Dr. Judy Wu-Smart - University of Nebraska - Lincoln
• Dr. Andrew Barron - Macquarie University
• Dr. Jamie Ellis - University of Florida
• Professor James Wilkes - Appalachian State University
• Sam Droege - USGS Native Bee Inventory and Monitoring Program
• Frederick Dunn - Beekeeping Educator
• Liz Frost - New South Wales Department of Primary Industries
• Mark Page - New South Wales Department of Primary Industries
• Megan Halcroft - Founder: Australian Native Pollinator Week
• Lars Fischer & Zofus Knudsen - 1st Place - World Honey Awards - Apimondia Congress 2015  
• James Dorey - Photographer & author: Bees of Australia - A Photographic Exploration 
• Professor Lars Chittka - Queen Mary University London
• Robyn Francis - Permaculture expert
• Stuart Anderson - Flow Hive
• Cedar Anderson - Flow Hive
• ...and more to come!

TheBeekeeper.org's mission is to protect bees and pollinators, and to celebrate the vital role they play in our natural world.
We do this by: 

• Gathering the knowledge of the world’s experts; 

• Providing high-quality beekeeping education; 

• Supporting projects/organisations that work towards habitat regeneration and advocacy for pollinators.

Our Billions of Blossoms project creates and protects pollinator habitat through partnerships with some of the world's best conservation and reforestation organisations. 

TheBeekeeper.org is an initiative of BeeInventive Pty Ltd, a certified B Corp.

Projects that BeeInventive has supported in the past include the Bee Friendly Farming Project ® by Pollinator Partnership and the Green Carpenter Bee Conservation Project in conjunction with Wheen Bee Foundation.

Read more here.

Your first payment will be deducted 30 days after you sign up, and monthly subscribers will be charged every 30 days until the subscription is cancelled. If you purchase a yearly membership, the subscription payment will renew after 1 year if it is not cancelled before then.

Members can request to have their subscription payments capped at 2 annual payments or 24 monthly payments. Members that have subscribed to the course for 1 year can retain access to the lessons in year 1. Members that subscribe for 2 years can retain ongoing access to the full course, including any new lessons that are produced.

Yes, you can buy a 12-month gift subscription which provides a sign-up link and a digital gift card that you can forward to your gift recipient, plus a printable card if you’d like to have something to give in person.

To request a gift subscription, send us an email - and tell us which currency you want to purchase it with (AUD, USD or EUR).

Yes.  A course assessment is available 6 months after signup. Pass the assessment to receive a personalised, downloadable certificate of achievement. Please note that this certificate is not formally recognised/accredited by any official regulatory body.