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Introduction to Beekeeping course 2024

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 to our Charitable aims of ‘to…..advance the education of the public and beekeepers in the craft of beekeeping…’.

The weekend follows a tried and tested formula of the Saturday being a ‘theory’ day in Brailes village Hall whilst Sunday is a hands-on session with the students doing a round robin of frame making, hive building and opening a colony.

We have a more detailed review of the course on the Shipston website at

https://sbka.org.uk/training/shipston-itb-2024-report

so here are a few photographs from the weekend:

David Blower MB and Course Senior, does the introductions
Brailes Village Hall is an excellent venue
Every student’s name badge has a flower on it, and as an afternoon exercise students are asked to line up in order of flowering
Shipston’s Training Apiary
Julia Neal our catering genius (and Committee Member) producing tea, coffee, cakes and biscuits in the middle of nowhere!
Bee keepers clustering near the entrance to the hive…..
Hands on
Frame making led by Mike Clarke