Tree of Life (Beekeeping Division of Grace Church) together with Changed Lives NGO, Tanzania.

It is our goal to make a simple straightforward guide for anyone interested in keeping African bees. The bees we primarily work with in the south-western Rukwa Valley of Tanzania are the widespread Apis mellifera scutellata, however these techniques apply to all African bee species.

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Why Promote African Beekeeping?

First Consideration:  Types of hives

Second Consideration: Baiting your hives and placement
 
Third Consideration: Maintaining your hives
 
Fourth Consideration: Harvesting your honey

Fifth Consideration: Processing your honey

Sixth Consideration: Rendering wax from comb