Introduction to Beekeeping 2025-2026
If you have joined the division recently and begun by visiting one of our apiaries, joined us on our Bee Safari or come to the extraction day at Westdene you may have begun your beekeeping journey or be thinking of getting your first colony of bees for 2026.
This basic and informative course will start on September 22nd. There are five autumn meetings all delivered on Zoom led by apiary managers and members of our committee.
There dates for the five sessions are
- Sept 22
- Sept 29th,
- October 6th
- Nov 10 and finally
- Nov 25th.
All these meetings will be on Monday evenings delivered on Zoom from 7.00-9.00pm with opportunities for questions.
In the spring our first open hive sessions will demonstrate how to conduct the first disease inspection of the season, information about Bailey Comb exchange or Shook swarm, looking for signs of Nosema and taking bee samples, how to do a varroa mite count.
If you would like to join us, get in touch with me at Jude or DM on WhatsApp or our Facebook page then I will send you a programme and registration form. You can collect your support materials produced by the BBKA from one of our winter meetings.
