Events & For Sale

Dear Kennet Beekeeper,  Welcome to my newsletter for August. I am changing back to google groups for sending this monthly email Newsletter.  We tried using the BBKA data base but the formatting went wrong and it was not really successful.  You are all on our Google Group data base so everyone should get this. The …

Dear Kennet Beekeeper, I am very aware that I have still to meet many of our new beekeepers.  With yet more COVID rules we will have to change our next meeting on Wednesday 7 July from the village hall at Bishops Canning to a zoom meeting which was when I had hoped we could all meet face to …

Dear Beekeeper, I must start this month’s newsletter about Swarm Collecting. It has come to our notice that a member has been charging for swarm collections.  This is not KBKA nor BBKA policy to charge for swarm collections as this is a free service carried out by approved members.  In future we will remove any member from …

Dear Kennet BeeKeeper, Beekeeping now really starts to get going in May, so be prepared for swarms, putting on supers and generally inspecting your bees.  In the Horton Road Apiary we have started to paint the social area and to   make the place more pleasant to visit.  Dick Church has kindly given KBKA two …

Dear Kennet BeeKeeper,May I start by wishing you all a Happy Easter Holiday.  Tuesday 30 March was the warmest day of the year so far – so I inspected my bees for the first time. It is always good to open a colony for the first time that year and see what is, or is not, going …