Beginners

Below are details of the 2012 Beginer’s Course.

Sign up now for our 2012 Beginner’s Course, which starts in January 2012. The cost for the ten week course will be £50, which includes:

• The Chalfonts Beekeepers’ Beginners Course consisting of:
  • 8 classroom lectures, check the diary on the right for details
    • Introduction to Beekeeping
    • The Colony
    • Frame Making Equipment
    • Pollination and Plants
    • The Beekeeping Year
    • Queen Rearing and Swarming
    • Pests and Diseases
    • Hive Products
  • A copy of The Bee Manual by Claire and Adrian Waring
    

    The Bee Manual

  • Two apiary sessions where you can get hands on experience, dates in the diary to the right.  Details and directions will be given to you at a prior classroom session.
  • A mentor, one of our society beekeepers, to help and provide on-going support
  • A year’s membership of Chalfonts Beekeepers Society
  • Attend our monthly society meetings where expert speakers will enhance your knowledge and skills in the art of beekeeping
  • Access to our comprehensive library
  • Access to the society’s equipment, available to loan to members
  • Access to the society’s ‘out apiaries’ at Maple Lodge and Chalfont St Giles
  • Make many new friends with a common interest in becoming better beekeepers
  • Purchase beekeeping equipment at preferential prices through our society
  • A calendar year’s membership of Bucks County Beekeepers
  • A calendar year’s membership of the British national body for beekeepers (BBKA)
  • National insurance for your first 3 bee hives
  • Discounted entry to the annual beekeeping conference

Contact the Education Secretary for further information and to register your interest.

Our education apiary is located at Chalfont St Giles. An apiary is a place where one or more hives are kept. Here we teach and demonstrate the art of beekeeping.

We provide opportunities and support for ongoing education for our members.  Click here for more details.

Schedule

Date	Subject	Speaker
Tues 31st Jan	Introduction to Beekeeping	MC
Tues 7th Feb	The Colony	MC
Tues 14th Feb	EquipmentFrame Making	SC GC DTBF JC
Tues 21st Feb	Pollination and Plants	JC
Tues 6th March	The Beekeeping Year	MC
Tues 13th March	Queen Rearing and Swarming	BC
Tues 20th March	Pests and Diseases	BC
Tues 3rd April	Hive Products	NG
Fri 20 – Sun 22 April	Spring Convention
Sat 14th & 28th April (weather permitting)	Apiary Session	BC, MC, BF, SC et alia

BF = Bill Fisher (Chairman)
MC = Sr Mary-Christa
BC = Beulah Cullen
RM = Ronnie Mitchell
JC =  John Catton
DT =  Derek Taylor
NG = Nick Grey
SC =  Sue Carter
MT = Mike Tucker
GC = Gordon Cutting

Post Script

Are there ways in which we can develop practical education projects amongst our membership, purely to develop our own knowledge, regardless of the length of our beekeeping experience? If you have ideas, or would be interested in joining a group looking at methods of queen-rearing, and another at integrated pest management please contact the Education Secretary.

For more details contact the Education Secretary: Sr Mary Christa.