UPDATE - TOO HOT FOR BEE SUITS! This event has now been postponed to Sunday 31st July - you will still need to email wcbka.val@gmail.com to indicate your attendance and for full directions. Carrie Sparrow has invited us to visit her apiary on Sunday 17th [...]

We have not finalised the date, but there will be a West Cornwall Beekeepers Honey Show early in 2022. It is likely to be on a Saturday in January in the large hall in the Marazion Community Centre. We expect there will be all the usual classes for honey [...]

Anne and I had a pleasant afternoon with the bees at Chy Vellan. Believe it or not, I actually arrived a little early and brought my brush cutter so that I could trim up the entrance and around the dunny. It was getting a little [...]

My turn again, this time with Lindsay, after several weeks of leaving the apiary in other capable hands. The shed is still very tidy, the team have been cleaning up and returning old frames, but the rabbits haven’t done as much grass cutting as usual [...]

We have been asked to circulate details of a series of on-line evening lectures throughout the rest of the beekeeping season, starting on 9th June, from Ken and Dan Basterfield. Topics are chosen to fit with the work in the apiary, aiming to be timely and [...]