Honey Show at Hagley Village Hall on September 7th 2019

It was a wonderful honey show at Hagley Village Hall this year. It represented an incredible demonstration of the wide range of honey products that honeybees produce. The show comprised mead, wax candles, honey cake, frames of honey, liquid and soft set honey. The forage that the bees have been working provided the whole range of colours of honey through from very light to black honey from tree sap.

The judge commented he was impressed by the standard and as a result it was a challenge to pick out the winners. The NEWBKA members provided some great entries and as per the pictures there were some excellent wins by our local members - well done to all who took part.

Dates for the diary & social meetings

There are some great events coming up and these include:

• Thursday 29th August from 7.30pm: speaker evening in the upstairs room of the Hanbury Turn public house - Dave Bonner on 'preparing bees for winter'
• Saturday 7th September: The local honey show for NEWBKA held at Hagley Village Hall. Booking in of entries from 8.30am - 10am. Awarding of prizes from 1.30pm. (see Ed Payne's e-mail of 20.08.)
•  7.30pm Monday 9th September: The next social meeting at The Bowling Green Inn - please bring along a sample of your honey for general tasting
• Saturday & Sunday 28th & 29th September Malvern County Honey Show (see entry forms attached to Ed Payne's e-mail of 28.08.)

Summer 2019

At last the summer has arrived. We trust your bees are enjoying the warmer weather. Through the membership e-mails there is syrup for sale at discounted rates, the apiary meetings continue at Avoncroft & the Jinney Ring and the extractor group is just starting to whir into motion as the honey is starting to be extracted.

 The season has been busy so far with swarms reported and caught. The swarm to the left had decided to settle into an underground hole so needed a good amount of encouragement to return to a new upturned swarm collector prior to being rehomed.

 The queen in the righthandside picture is from another swarm and is starting to lay well with the onset of more settled weather and the signs of a good honey flow. A valued NEWBKA member mentioned to me that as a result of increased colonies it is always a good idea to check how many stocks you are insured for and adjust your insurance as necessary - a good reminder.

Beekeeping equipment for sale

One of our Beekeepers, Peter Clarke is giving up keeping Bees due to ill health.

He is selling his Hives comprising Roofs, Brood, Super, Crown Boards, Floors and Stands.

There are also several Nuc Boxes in need of some attention.

Prices to reflect condition.

Anyone interested please contact Bob Pargeter on 07857264851