As members of Shipston Beekeepers, Paul and I participated in helping at Shipston’s first Great Big Green Week Family Trail. This was just one of… Read More »Shipston Beekeepers at Shipston’s ‘Big Green Week’
How are your bees – calm, defensive, aggressive? Is you colony really busy, or just, well, busy? How can you tell if you only have… Read More »Apiary Visits 2024 – John and Judy’s out-apiary
The big news from May’s 2nd Monday meeting is that we have finally found our new home! In previous blogs we have said that we… Read More »Shipston Beekeepers 2nd Monday 13 May ’24
Our annual Introduction to Beekeeping course, this year run on 27th and 28th April, is a major undertaking for Shipston Beekeepers and a big contributor… Read More »Introduction to Beekeeping course 2024
The following was sent today, Mon 29th April, to beekeepers who have signed up for notifications from the NBU. It is reproduced here for those… Read More »NBU – Starvation Alert
The theme of this evening’s meeting was ‘Preparing for Swarming’. Last year the first swarms were reported in April and I have heard of sealed… Read More »Shipston Beekeepers 2nd Monday meeting – 08 April 2023
The AGM is of course one of the most important meetings of the year. Many key decisions are made, from agreeing what the membership rates… Read More »Shipston Beekeepers AGM 2024 – 12 Feb 2024
The first challenge for our first 2nd Monday meeting of 2024 was…where to hold it! Our venue for the last year or so, The George… Read More »Shipston 2nd Monday meeting 08 Jan 2024 – Asian Hornet
This was of course the last meeting of 2023 and the Committee had planned for it to be a bit of a fun event. Arranged… Read More »2nd Monday meeting 11th December 2023
David and Margery held their much sought-after wax workshop on 11th November. On this course, held in their kitchen, they cover how to clean the… Read More »Shipston Beekeepers Wax workshop