Join your local beekeeping association
Joining your local beekeeping association has many benefits. All associations have a website and newsletters, summer seasonal meet-ups and events, and winter meetings. They offer advice and training for your first year of beekeeping, and ongoing expertise, experience and support. Some will have their own apiary and can supply members with equipment and bees. UK associations are usually joined to the British Beekeepers’ Association (BBKA) and will organise BBKA membership for you.
Don’t be a bad beekeeper!
Membership of a local association is advised in order to stay up-to-date with the latest developments in beekeeping and, most importantly, updated on disease and pest control methods. Beekeepers have the same responsibility to their bees as farmers do to livestock – they must ensure the health and wellbeing of their hives.
Bad beekeeping practices means sick bees and can cause bee diseases to spread – not good news for Miss A Mellifera!
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I didn’t even know there was an option to join a beekeeping association. I also don’t live in the UK, so that might be the case. But this is awesome. I love fresh honey, and I’ve chewed my fair share of honeycomb. How long have you been beekeeping?
Hi Andrew, thank you for visiting. Fresh honeycomb is delicious, isn’t it? Do you keep bees? This is my third year as a beekeeper
No, but it sounds amazing. Is it your profession? Or is it more of a volunteer thing? Either way, how did you even get involved in it?
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Hi, great blog! I’m interested in beekeeping and aromatherapy. I shared a link to your blog on my blog. I volunteer at a permaculture site called Offshoots. Offshoots is running a project called Bees in the Borough…http://timbertwigsadventures.wordpress.com/2012/10/18/bees-in-the-borough/ It’s aim is to encourage good beekeeping and reintroducing the black bee – apis mellifera mellifera – into the local area.
Dont forget the WBKA (Welsh Beekeepers Association!
Also worth looking at what the natural bee keepers are doing. http://www.biobees.com. as well as being an aromatherapist, I also keep bees, having three nationals, a horizontal top bar hive and a Warré hive. I use beeswax in my Aromatherapy practice.
Yes! If one decides to keep bees, joining a beekeeping club will be an asset. I am fortunate to have more than one. http://www.backwardsbeekeepers.com and http://longbeachbeekeepers.blogspot.com I love southern California!
Thanks for those links, they look great beekeeping clubs. I bet Californian bees are very happy bees!
One can only dream! Heavy losses in Wales due to 18 months of unseasonable weather..