Beekeeping 4-H Project Area

Beekeeping projects give youth the chance to learn about honeybees through hands-on experiences with a mentor. Members discover how hives work, care for bees, and produce honey while building responsibility and confidence.

4-H Members can complete the following 4-H Projects; 

• Beekeeping 1 - Learning about Beekeeping: Beekeeping can be a lifetime hobby for lifelong learners. This manual introduces bees and beekeeping and is intended to prepare learners to set up their own hive. 
• Beekeeping 2 - Working with Honey Bees: This manual is for youth who have completed Level 1 and feel ready to start a beehive. Activities in this manual help youth as they acquire a colony and learn how to care for their beehive throughout the year. It also introduces basic beekeeping operations resulting in the production of extracted, chunk or cut comb honey. 
• Beekeeping 3 - Advanced Beekeeping: This manual is for a young beekeeper who is experienced and knowledgeable in the basic care of a beehive. This manual includes more detail on some things you have already learned and introduces more advanced beekeeping topics: increasing the number of your honeybee colonies, increasing honey production, producing special kinds of honey, managing disease and more about bee societies.
• Beekeeping Facilitator's Guide: This facilitator’s guide provides guidance and assistance for facilitating a beekeeping project. The curriculum is divided into three manuals with the supporting facilitator’s guide. 

Scoresheets

Exhibit Ideas

• Year 1: Learning About Beekeeping - Create an educational poster, notebook, or display about any manual activity or any beekeeping topic of choice that is age/grade appropriate.
• Examples of Blue Ribbon Exhibits

How Do I Sign Up?

The first step is to create an enrollment in our ZSuite website.

When you get to the CLUBS tab of the enrollment, you will want to ADD PROJECT.

For Beekeeping, you should search for:

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