Canalside Community Bees: September 2012

Welcome to Canalside Community Bees

Welcome to Canalside Community Bees! We are a cooperative bee club, or a honey CSA (Community Supported Apiculture!). Members of Canalside Community Bees invest at the start of the year to buy the required equipment. Through the year members get involved in managing the bees, building hives, planting bee friendly flora, harvesting honey and making use of hive products. Honey share members pay extra to get a share of the honey at harvest time.

We keep our bees on the site of Canalside Community Food (www.canalsidecommunityfood.org.uk/), a Community Supported Agriculture project just outside Leamington Spa. We are starting out this year (2012) with 4 hives and hope to expand as soon as the season gets going.

Monday 17 September 2012

Honey extraction and sticky fingers!

We borrowed the mobile extractor from the Warwick and Leamington beekeepers Assoc and had a fun morning uncapping and spinning frames then jarring up the honey. Just enough for 2 jars each for honey share members and none for sale to others. At least we got some honey which is more than a lot of local beekeepers. Here are some photos...