Introduction to Beekeeping Courses for 2018 The Luton course starts indoors on Sunday mornings from 18th February to 25th March at the Discovery Centre, Stockwood Park from 10.30am til 12.30pm. Then continues every Sunday morning […]
Woburn Abbey courtyard and gardens provided a beautiful setting for a new event in our calendar, the Honey Festival on Saturday 30 September. A wide range of stalls were there to appeal to visiting members […]
Previously I used Hiveclean as Varroa treatment, both before supers went on in spring and again at the end of summer when honey was taken off. However, Hiveclean has been withdrawn and is no longer […]
It’s that time of year again when we can expect to honey bee swarms. Following a fine start to spring many colonies made a great start in building up their strength and we quite expected […]
It had all been going so well – with every hive alive and some pretty strong. Then, on the afternoon of our AGM, the farmer on whose land I have some hives phoned to say […]
On the seventh of September 2014 I was called to a swarm of Bees in a very large Cedar Tree, the swarm was half way along a very thin branch and the owner did not […]
What would two strange looking men be doing in the middle of a field in Bedfordshire on a sunny afternoon in July? What else but inspecting bees, of course! But, where are the bee suits? […]
In summer 2015, several Bedfordshire beekeepers were fortunate to be invited to take their bees to a local farm to pollinate a borage crop. It is important when providing bees for pollination that both bees […]
Talk at Flitwick Village Hall for Bedfordshire Beekeepers 15/10/15 by Ged Marshall Ged, his daughter and a summer student run 250 colonies and raise 1500 queens a year. They are based at Oakfield Honey Farm […]
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