Date/Time: Saturday 5th September at 1400-1600 Location: Palmsted Wood, Bekesbourne September is traditionally the time when we put the colonies into winter configurations, although with ivy honey coming in, this may not be the final time we re-organise the boxes. We’ll see what the late summer flow is like, and assess the health of the…
Hi {{FirstName}} Our next meeting will be at Debbie Burton’s house/apiary in Stanford (at the bottom of Stone Street), at 2pm on Saturday August 8th. We plan to do some honey extraction – we will have 4/5 supers from Palmsted – and have a look at some of Debbie’s hives, so do bring your beesuits. …
Our next apiary meeting will be at Mark Hobday’s apiary at Chilham, from 2-4pm on 4th July. Meet in the car park at Chilham Sports Centre, Branch Road, CR4 8DR. Mark has 5 colonies, including 3 big ones, and hopefully some heavy supers! As a courtesy to Mark and his bees, please come with clean…
Date/Time: Sunday 7th June at 1400-1600 Location: Palmsted Wood, Bekesbourne Ln, Bekesbourne, CT4 5DX We’ve been able to generate several nuc colonies at our branch apiary on the back of the spring flows, and hopefully the swarming urge has calmed down, and we can prepare for the summer flows in late June and July. Andy…
With almost constant sunshine over the last two weeks, the horse chestnuts have rapidly caught up with the OSR, and the bees will have been busily filling supers. We’ll be looking to balance up the colony strengths this weekend, and where appropriate splitting at least one colony to make sure we have a good number…
