With any other trade to become a Master takes years of training.

Off the EAS web site:

The purpose of the Master Beekeeper certification program is to identify
and certify people who have a detailed knowledge of honey bee biology,
expertise in the proper practices of beekeeping, and can present this
information to the beekeeping and non-beekeeping public in a detailed,
accurate, clear and authoritative manner. The goal of this program is to
certify that those who are awarded the Master Beekeepers Certificate are
competent at a college level in the four areas where they are tested.



The training is less than an Associate's Degree yet they get their Masters.
What I have seen is they do not have the level of knowledge a true Master
would have but the general public who doesn't know the amount of training
the Master needed to get to be a Master looks at the title in
the academic way. It seems misleading.



I am pleased for anyone who takes the training who wants to become a better
beekeeping. I have not been pleased with the guru type status which
happens, the beginning beekeeper gets the short end of the stick when their
Master has one narrow option on how one should keep bees.



I know all who take the training are not the same.



Karen

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