BeekeepingWeekend workshop

Beekeeping Basics on a Regenerative Farm

Quinta das Abelhas · Cortiço, Portugal

A hands-on weekend meeting the hive: open colonies, read the bees, and learn low-intervention beekeeping in the mountains.

Open and inspect living hives in full kitBuild a top-bar hive to take home knowledge ofTaste honey straight from the comb

What you'll learn

Inspect a colony calmly and safely
Recognise the queen, brood, and signs of health
Know how to start your first low-intervention hive

What the land gains

New top-bar hives built for the apiary
Pollinator forage replanted along the terraces

The host site

Quinta das Abelhas

A bee-rich restoration project in the Serra da Estrela

Set against Portugal's highest mountains, this rustic quinta is reviving terraced land and tending a growing apiary. Its name means 'farm of the bees', and pollinators are at the centre of everything happening here.

Your teacher

Sofia Almeida

Natural beekeeper

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