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 in the recent email to all members, including the important w3w locations, and parking instructions….
Our next apiary meeting will be at our Palmsted Wood apiary on Saturday July 1st between 2-4pm. Many colonies will reach their maximum size around the summer solstice, so we’ll be looking at uniting smaller colonies to make a big colony for honey production, doing a comb change procedure on weak and strong colonies (to…
On this occasion we will be doing a “Bee Safari”, wherein we visit 4 different apiaries in the company of our excellent Seasonal Bee Inspector, Lisa Jenkins. We will start at 1300 in St Nicholas-at-Wade, where Bob Heddle has 5 hives, including a Zest hive. Then we will move onto our Bekesbourne apiary (approx start…
Our last apiary meeting of the summer will be on 16th September in Janet MacDonald and Jenny Warbey’s apiary, which is on the grounds at Wildwood in Herne. The focus will be looking at various hive patterns, and it will be an opportunity to discuss advantages and disadvantages of several of the common (and less…
Our next apiary meeting will be at Debbie Burton’s home/apiary on Saturday August 5th between 2-4pm. The address is Waverley, Stanford, Ashford, TN25 6DL. This is the time of year for honey harvesting, and we will demonstrate the principles, and hopefully extract a few supers of honey from our branch apiary. We’lll have various types…
