Apiculture Training Programmes
Build your skills. Build your hive.
Beekeeping plays a crucial role in New Zealand’s environment and food production. Our apiculture programme blends practical, hands-on training with essential theory so you can develop real confidence working with bees. From hive care and seasonal management to honey production and disease control, you’ll learn the core skills needed to support commercial operations or manage your own hives.
Gain knowledge that’s grounded in industry practice and valued across the apiculture sector.
Apiculture Courses
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Apiculture (Level 3)
This programme prepares you to work as an assistant beekeeper or manage your own hives with confidence while earning your New Zealand Certificate in Apiculture (Level 3). You’ll learn the practical skills needed to work with bees and beehives, including hive management, honey production, pest and disease control, and safe use of apiculture equipment.
Learn With Purpose
New Zealand leads the way in producing exceptional honey known around the world for its flavour, as a wellness supplement, and as an ingredient in many beauty products, and for the sustainable approach New Zealand Apirists are taking to ensure the industry’s long-term survival – and the bees.
Joining the industry is a great way to give back – plus, it is a fascinating and rewarding field. If you choose to study with us, you will gain valuable knowledge and skills designed and delivered in ways that will help you forge a career pathway.
With all the environmental concerns we are dealing with as a planet, learning and applying apiculture techniques is a wonderfully practical way to become part of the solution by learning with purpose.
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Our friendly course advisors can help with everything you need to know including an outline of study options, key information about enrolment, and all our campuses spread around New Zealand.