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The Lightbox Woking-Sat 9th April
From 10:00 to 17:00 we will be on the stand at The Lightbox Woking for the Garden in the Box Festival. There’s lots to see and do. We will have honey available, and varioua products of the hive including hand creams and beeswax wraps. The Mayor of Woking, Cllr Liam Lions, will unveil a newly…
Bee Hotels for Sale
Ideal for the solitary bees in your garden. With a hook on the back ideal for locating in the sunshine so your solitary bees can make their home and lay their eggs. Great for attracting more pollinators to your garden; watch them come and go. Contact surreybees@outlook.com £25
Training Under Lockdown
What a year! Training and supporting beekeepers has proved very challenging with social distancing. As if wearing a bee suit, gloves and wellingtons wasn’t enough in 30 degree heat, to then add a face mask and a 2 metre distance rule was interesting! That and having to carry out training on a one to one basis…
Nasty Bees – what to do?
Nasty Bees – what to do? Sometimes your beautiful queen creates a descendent who mates with the wrong drones and ends up producing a swarm of Damien’s, who sting even just arriving at the apiary!! The solution of course is to ensure that your lovely queen that you have produced mates with the right drones………..but…
Archie, UK’s Youngest Qualified Beekeeper wins 2 First Prizes @ National Honey Show
Archie, aged 5, UK’s youngest qualified beekeeper won 2 First prizes including the Kenna Cup for his entries at the National Honey Show 2019. He entered his Project Workbook which he had put together to help him learn all the aspects of the BBKA Basic Certificate (at…
Archie Cridland, UK’s Youngest Beekeeper passes his BBKA Junior Certificate, aged just 5 years!
Geoff Galliver the examiner said of Archie: “I was staggered by his level of knowledge! He blew my mind!” UK’s Youngest Qualified Beekeeper…….EVER Guildford 5th June 2019 Today Surrey Bees Training is pleased to announce that Archie Cridland, aged 5 yrs. achieved a first in beekeeping, as the youngest ever to pass his BBKA Junior…
Class of 2019
New Beekeepers course 2019 – after a gruelling 8 weeks theory about to head off into the field to put their new learned knowledge into practise!
RHS Wisley
Taste of Autumn Show will soon be here Wed 17th to Sunday 21st October – has to be the best show at RHS Wisley, lots of stalls, children’s activities and the Autumn showings from RHS Wisley. We shall be attending in Hillside Event Centre – on sale: Surrey Honeys: Floral Honey – from local Wisley…
Busy Bee and the Endangered Meadow – Book Review
A new book on bees, available for children has recently been published on Amazon. It is about a bee that dons a disguise in order to try and save a meadow from being built over with housing. It is a story with some educational and environmental aspects within the text. It is available from Amazon for…