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, 16 April 2012

Learning opportunities

Here are details of a couple of courses that have come to my attention:

1. Beekeeping Appreciation Day. Saturday 19 May 2012
A one day course run at Marton Village Hall near Rugby by our local beekeepers association. Book at http://www.warleambees.com/trainapp.html
 
2. The Honey Bee - A Being of Warmth, Friday 15th June to Sunday 17th June
A weekend course at Hawkwood College near Stroud looking at Biodynamic Beekeeping. http://www.hawkwoodcollege.co.uk/courses/The_Honey_Bee_-_A_Being_of_Warmth_June
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