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.

Useful links

Here are some links to other websites that might be of interest:

Warwick and Leamington Beekeepers Association www.warleambees.com
This is our local beekeepers association

British Beekeepers Association (BBKA) www.bbka.org.uk
The national beekeepers association

Bungay Community Bees www.sustainablebungay.com/bungay-community-bees-2
Another community bee club like ours but in Suffolk

Bees for Development www.beesfordevelopment.org/
This organisation supports beekeeping in developing countries

The Barefoot Beekeeper www.biobees.com/
This site is about 'natural' beekeeping

Friends of the Earth Bee Cause www.foe.co.uk/what_we_do/the_bee_cause_35033.html
FoE are campaigning to save bees and other pollinators

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