Why not attend our introductory series of ten weekly FREE Bee-keeping lectures? These are held at the Apiary during the winter months. These will start on Thursday, Oct. 9th (7 p.m. to 9 p.m.) in 2008 - bring pencil, notepad and enthusiasm.
Special announcements -updated 15th Oct.

During the active bee-keeping season (March to September) groups of student bee-keepers work with experienced tutors on Friday evenings taking care of the Association's beehives. In 2009, we will start on Friday, March 6th at 6.30 p.m. There is chat (mostly about bees!) at the tea counter and Members can use the Library and the Trading Post.

Twice a year, Association Members can test the health of their colonies at the Bee Clinic (the Autumn clinic is on Sun. 7th Sept, 2 p.m. onwards) and at harvest time they are able to borrow (for a small fee) one of the honey extractors or use our own 'food-grade' extracting room.

* * * STOP PRESS * * *
Friday May 23rd 2008 6:30 p.m. onwards. SHB surveillance inspection by our RBI, Alan Byham. Come along to see how this is done, Alan will be giving a talk afterwards. If you missed this talk, go here for NBU advice on SHB recognition (PowerPoint Presentation).


The 2008/9 Winter Teaching programme for members includes study for BBKA Modules 2 and 5, study groups for aspects of the General Husbandry Assessment, a Food Hygiene course and a talk on mead-making. Full information is here.
For information on this and all other teaching activities, please contact Chris Deaves on 020 8 568 2869.

Whether you are just interested in finding out a little about bees, or are an experienced bee-keeper wishing to update your skills in order to keep your bees healthy, you will be very welcome at the Twickenham & Thames Valley Bee-Keepers' Association