Current news from Hagley & Stourbridge Beekeepers' Association
Well, all the beehives have been fed until they are very heavy and that's the end of the 2023 beekeeping season, the 2024 season starts in about March next year.
The end of the season doesn't mean that the beekeeper does nothing; managing ten hives is a whole day's work every week of the year, so while the workload is reduced there's always a job to do.
Once a month you visit the apiary and check if everything is as you left it. There's hives to make or repair, frames to make-up, queen excluders to clean and lots of reading to do.
If you would like to do a beekeeping course in 2024 please click here…
Hagley & Stourbridge Beekeepers' Association promote and support beekeepers in the area though training courses, mentoring and we run a training apiary at Iverley.
Hagley & Stourbridge Beekeepers is part of Worcestershire Beekeepers' Association which in turn is part of the British Beekeepers' Association.
No one knows when we started because all our records were lost in 1998, we believe it was sometime in the 19th century.
Our aim is to buy a fragment of land in the area with vehicle access and nearby parking for up to ten cars, where we can establish a permanent teaching apiary with storage for our equipment.
