American Innovative Beekeeper Academy

Becoming a Beekeeper

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Honey bees are amazing creatures and will never cease to amaze you. To manage bees in a hive, one needs to plan ahead and learn to think like a bee.

Everyone can help Honey Bees

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When you plant a flower or vegetable garden, or think twice about using chemicals to elimate weeds in your lawn, you are helping honey bees.

Become an Academy Member- It's Free!

If you are registered as an Academy member (use button above), it will streamline the regsitration procees for Acadeamy events and courses. Membership registration is a onetime thing and membership is free. Then just buzz on over to the Events page to see what is on the calendar. Events Registration You can register for an Event/Course after Membership registration. Course location: Clemmons, NC

About Us

The goal of our Academy is to educate the public about how amazing honey bees are.

Our beekeeper training and mentoring programs are designed to help you succeed as a beekeeper.

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Eduation

⁠Our Academy offers both classroom and bee yard instructional approaches.

Mentoring

Keeping your hives healthy can be challeging. We guide our members through these important tasks.

Community

Need a knowlegdeable speaker to talk about honey bees to your group?

⁠Contact us.

Service

⁠⁠Looking for help to safely remove bees from your house or yard?

Or honey for your tummy?

We've got you covered.

The Hive Dream Team

The Queen

⁠Typically there is one queen per hive. She rules the the roost and makes sure the population is suitable.

The Worker

About 95% of the hive population are workers and these gals take can of nearly all the business.

The Drone

These males have an important role in population balance of the hive.

The Beekeeper

⁠The beekeeper must actively manage the hive and anticipate the needs of the colony to help ensure that the hive is healthy and productive.

Why People Love Our Academy

" The Academy instructors are great, very knowledgeable and caring! I quickly realized that there is alot of stuff to think about when keeping bees, so the intensive mentoring offered during the course was key to helping me to organize myself in order to mange my hives successfully." T.G.

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Ali Mousavi
Academy Founder &

Master Beekeeper (Cornell University)