Cherry Festival

Posted on by June 30, 2018
Our next meeting-the-public event is coming up quickly, at Brogdale on 15th July.  Running the Canterbury Beekeepers stand is fun and rewarding, particularly if there’s four or more people present to share the load.  We are very grateful to any member who can give up a few hours to help out with our “meet the public” events.  Don’t worry that you don’t know everything about beekeeping – you’ll know more than almost anyone who comes to the stand, and enthusiasm is the single biggest asset at these events!
Please sign up to offer help – if you can’t make the day, perhaps you can supply honey or other hive products, or help prepare the observation hive.

Apiary meeting on 5th May

Posted on by July 28, 2018

due to some unforeseen changes of plans, we have decided that Saturday’s meeting will be a fixed-location event, at our apiary in Sally and Chris’ wood in Bekesbourne.  Full joining instructions can be found in the email sent to all members.  If you didn’t receive an email, please contact David by email or Adrian by email

Saturday 5th May, 2-4.30pm

We hope that many of you can join us this coming weekend.  We need to tidy up the colonies, which were small when we visited in April, but by now should be growing rapidly.

Normal apiary hygiene rules apply – so please bring clean bee-suits, clean disposable gloves (no leather gloves), and wellington boots.  If you need to borrow PPE, please let us know ASAP, so we can make sure to have an appropriate number of suits available.

AGM 2017

Posted on by November 5, 2017

Our AGM will be held on 15th November 2017 at 7.30pm, in the Whitefriars management Suite.  All members and friends of Canterbury Beekeepers are invited to attend.  The principal subject will be a discussion about maximising the value of the branch to members, after hearing the officers’ reports.  We will keep the formalities of election of a committee to a minimum.

Here is the agenda:

AGM agenda 15th November 2017