The Beekeeping EAC started as an activity last year, with the college’s acquisition of two hives from a local beekeeper. This summer our hives multiplied, and we are now at four.
In October we extracted around 55 kilos of honey from them, and part of our project is to bottle, label and locally sell this product — and others such as beeswax candles, honey lipbalm and soap.
We are learning beekeeping and all these additional crafts hands-on, by doing all the practical tasks required by this type of farming throughtout the year, but also by studying the theory in the classroom.
Our aims are many-fold.
First and foremost we want to get to know as much as possible about this ancient, ecologically respectful and gentlest form of animal husbandry.
We think beekeeping is a skill we can all take with us wherever we go after UWC: beehives thrive everywhere, even in cities!
As for here, we have learned our bees will yearly have a larger and larger impact in the pollination of the plant species present in the area, resulting in trees and bushes yielding progressively more flowers and fruit.
We want to multiply our hives some more and eventually contribute to some of the school charities with our proceeds.
Currently we are also in the process of turning our honey into an organic product, by changing the winter feed of our bees.
Hurrah for beekeeping!
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