Second Monday

Our May 2nd Monday meeting is being slipped by a week due to all the early May Bank Holidays to 15th May. The theme is Swarms including preventing and collecting, and our Swarms Collectors' co-ordinator, Mike Cherry, will give a short talk on collecting swarms. Timings are as normal for a 2nd Monday, 1900hrs for… Read More »Shipston Beekeepers 2nd Monday Meeting May – 15th May – Swarms

I keep my bees at the bottom of my garden. I live on an estate, so there are a lot of neighbours very close. My biggest fear therefore is if the bees become too, ahem, defensive, start stinging the neighbours and I get asked to move them. I have a Plan B location (but don't… Read More »Shipston Beekeepers 2nd Monday meeting – November 2023

This will be a Zoom session. If you are a new beekeeper wanting to increase your knowledge (and a member of Shipston beekeepers) so would like to join these sessions please contact Carolyn Kramer.

May's meeting will have a general Q&A session but with all the swarms we have been hearing about, some in strange circumstances (one was reported happening at 1000hrs in the morning) we may ell circle back round to how to check for, and manage, swarming behaviour. Beware of post codes in this part of the… Read More »Shipston beekeepers 2nd Monday meeting – Monday 13th May

Our June meeting will be in our new 'home', Cherington Village Hall. Details of the evenings' theme to follow

From Super to Show: At July's meeting we will be going through everything you need to know from how to extract your honey from the supers, storing honey, filling jars and especially what you need to do to enter your honey and win 1st prize at the various village shows this summer.

Feeding, varroa treatments, uniting weak colonies, we'll try to cover it all!

Our Annual bring and Taste Honey Show - details to follow.

Amanda Cadge will take us through all the culinary uses of honey.