Debbie Burton is hosting us at her home in Sanford near Folkestone, from 2-4.30pm on Saturday 2nd August. We have 4 or 5 supers to extract from our Palmsted apiary, so expect to get sticky! Full joining instructions are included … Continue reading
Adrian Davis, Chairman Canterbury Beekeepers
We will have our next apiary meeting of the season on Saturday 5th July in the afternoon. On this occasion we will be doing a “Bee Safari”, wherein we visit different members’ apairies. We will start at 1130 in St … Continue reading
We will be meeting at our Palmsted Wood apiary at 2-4pm on Saturday 10th May. As well as the routine spring inspections, we have recently created two nucs, so there should be the opportunity to see how these are developing … Continue reading
Mark Hobday has invited the branch to visit his apiary in Chilham on 26th April, from 2-4pm. He’s got 6 colonies in place at the moment, and with the good weather through March and April, they all should be developing … Continue reading
Littlebourne Village Hall, 7.30-9.30pm Adrian Davis and Julian Audsley will lead a conversation about the key operations and manipulations that come up in the Spring. A quick refresher about swarm management and swarm control is always helpful, as are various … Continue reading