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Learn with Joy & Eric McEwen—keepers, teachers, and authors of Raising Resilient Bees. Every course blends heritage wisdom with practical, step-by-step guidance you can use right away.

LEVEL 1

Raising Resilient Bees

Natural Beekeeping for Beginners & Hobbyists

Whether you’re setting your first hive or refreshing your practice, Level 1 gives you the confidence to raise bees naturally, ethically, and in rhythm with the seasons. IWe’ve curated a comprehensive companion to our book and a doorway into relationship-centered beekeeping.


What you’ll learn

  • Natural Hive Setup — Choose hive style and placement that mimic the bees’ wild home.
  • Natural Queen Rearing — Support the colony’s own leadership transitions.
  • Sustainable Swarm Management — Work with expansion, not against it.
  • Feeding Without Sugar — Align nourishment with bee biology.
  • Seasonal Toolkit — Checklists and calendars to keep pace with nature.
  • Making Splits — Grow your apiary by dividing strong colonies—naturally.
  • Managing Swarms — Guide the instinct to swarm toward healthy outcomes.
  • Natural Varroa Strategies — Reduce pressure using design, timing, and bee behavior.
  • Best Practices for Thriving Hives — Nutrition, space, and stewardship that build resilience.


What you get

  • Lifetime access to the full beginner curriculum
  • Step-by-step video lessons filmed on our working farm
  • Downloadable tools: checklists, seasonal calendars, beekeeper’s toolkit
  • Q&A Series with Joy & Eric (5 additional videos)
  • Private community access for feedback and support


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LEVEL 2

Raising Resilient Bees (Adavnced)

The Complete Advanced Course in Natural Beekeeping

Deepen your craft with advanced management, breeding for resistance, and the art of value-added hive products.


What you’ll learn

  • Hive behavior & social dynamics
  • Advanced, season-spanning management
  • Splits, divides & natural queen rearing (refined)
  • Evolutionary & ecological beekeeping
  • Value-added products: salves, candles, tinctures
  • Organic & biodynamic honey production
  • Pollination ecology
  • Non-chemical varroa strategies at scale
  • Expanding colonies with foundationless comb
  • Recognizing & addressing brood disease—holistically


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“Joy and Eric have distilled decades of caring, hands-on work into pearls of valuable wisdom.”
— Don Tipping, Siskiyou Seeds

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“Approachable and solutions-focused for today’s beekeeping challenges.”
— Sarah Red-Laird, Bee Girl Organization

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“A genuine, real-world depiction of sustainable, place-based beekeeping.”
— Rob Keller, Napa Valley Bee Co.

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