MY FIRST HIVE PLAN

Start your HiveIQ journey before your bees arrive.

Turn “I want to keep bees” into a practical first-season plan: training, hive choice, apiary, equipment, bees and the first inspection.

WHY START NOW?

Your colony history can begin before the colony does.

Most hive-recording tools only become relevant after you own bees. My First Hive Plan is designed to give a new beekeeper something useful earlier: a clear route to the first colony and a place to capture the decisions that will matter later.

01LearnCourse, association and mentor.

02PrepareSite, hive and equipment.

03Get beesNuc source and arrival plan.

04Start historyYour first inspection becomes the baseline.

This website version saves your founding-programme plan with your registration. The full 2027 HiveIQ product is intended to turn it into the starting point for your colony record.

Build my plan

Tell us where you are up to. You do not need to own bees yet.

Full name *Email *County / area * Where are you up to? Likely hive type Training / mentor status Apiary/site status Equipment status When do you hope to get bees?Anything you want help planning? I understand the free 2027 programme requires a short monthly feedback survey. I agree that HiveIQ can securely store this registration and First Hive Plan information and contact me about 2027 access.

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