Dear Kennet Beekeeper, There have been so many swarms this May some days up to 6 on our swarm list, if I remember correctly. So for the next club meeting on Wednesday 7 June at Bishop Cannings village hall 7.30 pm I will be bringing in two empty hives to demonstrate how to do an artificial swarm …
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Chairman’s letter – May 2023
Dear Kennet Beekeeper, On Wednesday 3rd May Richard Oliver is going to give us a talk on simple Queen rearing. So this is the time to get prepared for your own Coronations in your apiary, unless you are so blasé and have been invited to the real thing on 6 May! It is so good to have …
Chairman’s letter – April 2023
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 …
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. …