The outlook for the 2021 Beekeeping Course has looked bleak since New Year. The Course due to start on 13th Jan looked like we might have to cancel.
However with a bit of stretching of the old grey cells, we are giving it a go on Zoom. It seemed a shame when we have 40 […]
Just a quick reminder that applications for the 2021 Beginners Beekeeping Course will be closing at the end of this month – could those who have signed up but not yet paid please contact Cilla. For more information about the course please take a look at our Learn Beekeeping page, where a link to […]
Registration is now open for the 2021 Beginners Beekeeping Course.
More information about the course can be found on our Learn Beekeeping page, along with a link to the application form.
Thank you to all those who have registered for the 2020 Beginners Beekeepers Course. We are now full.
Registration is now closed.
For those who would like to attend the 2021 course please look at this website at the beginning of October 2020, and put your name down then.
Cilla Platt, Education Officer
Guest post by Education Officer – Cilla Platt
Saturday 7th September was a breezy but bright day for the visit to the Teaching Apairy.
Folks who were interested in bees came along to find out just how our wonderful local honey is made.
The bees were the star performers and showed off their skills with […]
Guest post by Education Officer – Cilla Platt
Honey extraction for the year should now be safely over!
Entrance blocks should have gone on the front of the hives at the time of removing your supers of honey. The smell of honey in the air sends our little friends into a frenzy looking for the […]
Guest post by Education Officer – Cilla Platt
I was invited to visit the reception class at Ballacottier School a few weeks ago. The children were so attentive and asked lots of sensible questions.
None of them to do with stings!
It is so good to see that the conversation did not stop there.
Guest post and photos by Education Officer – Cilla Platt
The weekend of Thursday 23rd May to Sunday 26th May was a busy one at the Marown Apiary and at Esther and Norry’s Richmond Hill Apiary.
Fifteen of our members took the Basic Beekeeping Practical Assessment over those few days.
Linda Cain examinee and secretary, […]
Please note that the next full Beginner Beekeepers Course will start at the beginning of 2018.
If you wish to sign up for this course please do so on the special page here on the web site.
I have just opened a new file for people interested in the 2018 classes due to early interest, […]
Summer 2017
This years course is drawing to a close.
The format of the theory class for the seven evenings finished in April as usual with an excellent turn out of interested and interesting potential beekeepers.
This year though things have changed in the practical department. We have amalgamated the teaching and breeding facility under […]
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