A growing number of beekeeping organizations use mentoring programs as a means to complete the training of new beekeepers as well as providing a source of bees and queens for these new individuals. In this article we will review some concepts of mentoring new beekeepers with a very specific objective - keeping the new beekeeper in the beekeeping field by creating positive training situations where they can be highly successful with their new bee colonies.Most of us who have kept bees for any length of time can quickly name one or two individuals who were critical to our learning of the essential aspects of beekeeping. These were our mentors, teachers or instructors who took on our need to learn about bees and helped guide us through the maze of confusion that seems to grow around us when we become a new beekeeper. Bee clubs serve their membership well when they take the effort to create this close relationship between experienced and new beekeepers.
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