Kenya Coffee School & Barista Mtaani
Coffee & Bees / Honey Production & Apitherapy
#OSE | Open Skills Education
Delivered by Kenya Coffee School in collaboration with Barista Mtaani, this module explores the powerful synergy between coffee ecosystems and bees, demonstrating how beekeeping enhances biodiversity, improves coffee yields, and creates additional income streams for farming communities.
What you’ll learn
- Coffee & Pollination: the role of bees in coffee flowering and yield improvement
- Beekeeping Basics: hive types, colony management & seasonal cycles
- Honey Production: harvesting, processing, quality control & storage
- Coffee-Based Apiaries: placing hives in coffee farms & agroforestry systems
- Value Addition: honey, beeswax, propolis & pollen products
- Apitherapy Introduction: traditional and modern uses of bee products for wellness
- Environmental Benefits: biodiversity conservation & ecosystem health
- Livelihood Integration: combining coffee farming with apiculture
Who it’s for
- Coffee farmers & agroforestry practitioners
- Youth & women groups
- Beekeepers & agripreneurs
- Community development & sustainability projects
Why Open Skills Education?
- Open access to nature-based livelihoods
- Low-input, high-impact income diversification
- Strengthening ecosystems while growing economies
Open to all. Protect the bees. Grow coffee. Sweeten livelihoods.
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Healthy bees mean healthy coffee—and resilient communities.