Dear Kennet BeeKeeper, I am again writing this Newsletter before March as our first talk takes place next Wednesday, which is the 1st March. This will be The Honey Island – bee-lore from the Isles of Britain and beyond by Chris Parks. Chris Park lives on an organic farm in the Vale of the White Horse, Oxfordshire. …
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Chairman’s Letter – February 2023
Dear Kennet BeeKeeper, I am sending February’s Newsletter out really early as we have Dan Basterfield giving our first Wednesday in the month talk on 1st February at 7.30 pm (doors open for tea and coffee from 7.00) at Bishop Cannings village hall. This will be one of Dan’s Advanced Beekeeping lectures on Making and using nucs. It is hard to get speakers …
Chairman’s Letter – December 2022
Dear Kennet BeeKeeper, First of all may I start by wishing you all a Happy New Year 2023. The first date for your diary. On 1 January at 12.00 noon we hold our annual Oxalic Acid, Mulled Wine and Mince Pies get-together at the Horton Road Apiary. (We have not yet moved the bees to the new site). I hope you …
Chairman’s Letter – November 2022
Dear Kennet BeeKeeper, This coming Wednesday 2nd November we have our next talk by Kirsty Stainton. This was to have been at Bishop Cannings but because of reasons beyond our control we have had to change this to a ZOOM meeting. Please do not turn up at the hall but make yourselves comfortable in front of your …
Chairman’s Letter – October 2022
Dear Kennett BeeKeepers, I have found that this year has passed really quickly and now it is time again for our Kennet Beekeepers AGM which is this coming Wednesday the 5th October at 7.30 at Bishop Cannings Village Hall. We now have 170+ members and I do hope that many of you will try and come to this AGM. …