Events & For Sale

Dear Kennet Beekeepers,  The year is passing by rather fast and we have a drought that will make nectar supplies a bit short for some bees.  Now is the time to take your honey and really to begin to prepare your bees for winter by making sure that there is a low varroa count.  At …

Dear Kennet Beekeeper, We are now just pasted the year’s half way mark and your bees should have gathered you some honey by now, which if from oil seed rape you should have extracted.  July is all about getting ready to clear the honey supers at the end of the month or beginning of August …

Dear Kennet BeeKeeper, Well, what a season for swarming it has been, after a bad lot of winter losses our bees seem to be making up for those dead colonies.  Some days the WhatApp swarm group have had 5 or 6 swarms to deal with,  I do think it important that we, as the local …

Dear Kennet BeeKeeper,  It is the beginning of May and the swallows are arriving, the bees are thinking about swarming, in some places they are swarming,  and Kennet BeeKeepers, through Wiltshire BKA, has become a CIO Charity. (CIO = charitable incorporated organisation). You can search the Charity Commission records yourselves by going on to :- https://www.gov.uk/find-charity-information  and clicking on the link “Find …

Dear Kennet Beekeepers, This coming Wednesday 6th April we have our monthly talk or lecture at Bishops Cannings village hall,  SN10 2LA doors open from 7.00 pm for all to start at 7.30 pm.  As you should know we are starting with a very short Special General Meeting to vote in our KBKA trustees for the new Wiltshire BeeKeepers when they become a charity. …