Dear Kennet Beekeepers, This coming Saturday 1st April a from 2.00 pm, is due to be the first Open Apiary session at our new apiary site. As always, opening up the bees is very much weather dependant, and the forecast for Saturday is not great. It may be that the afternoon session at the apiary could be cancelled …
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Chairman’s Letter – Mid March 2023
Dear Kennet Beekeepers, As the start of our beekeeping year starts to ramp up, there are a number of notifications to send out to you which merits an additional mid-month edition of our newsletter. The first of which is to let you know that this season Richard Oliver will be running an improvers course which …
Chairman’s letter – March 2023
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. …
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 …