Beginners Course for Bee Keeping 2009

With the South Staffordshire Bee Keepers

(Part of the British Bee Keepers Association)

If you are interested in looking at bee keeping as a possible hobby to take up, then here is your chance. We run a course of six sessions at our Apiary (where we have our hives) near Stafford.

The aim is to give people enough information to see whether or not bee keeping is for them and to keep a hive of bees with some help.

Watch this space to book for next years course. It will start at the beginning of May.

The Thursday sessions are followed by practical sessions either on the Saturday or Sunday morning of the immediate week-end after.

The evenings start at 7.00 p.m. and are followed with refreshments. Registration for the course costs £10 for which you will receive a booklet of notes on the first session. After the first session we will ask you to join the Association as an associate member also for £10.

Bee Keeping?

Bee keeping is the manual craft of looking after bees that involves some lifting and some ability to make up items with simple tools. It is a craft that produces a pure and wholesome food that is an enrichment to the table. Bees can sting but with protective clothing this is minimised. Pollination of crops and wild flowers by our bees has a value that can only be guessed at, but we are 100% positive about our value to our environment. Forget about making money from bee keeping, but enjoy the satisfaction of producing some of your own honey.

Please send the form below with a cheque payable to S.S.&D.B.K.A. for £10 to

Tony Burton

Low Eaves

96, Weeping Cross,

STAFFORD

ST17 0DH ( 01785) 66 33 40

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Registration for the Beginner Bee Keeping course in 2008.

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I enclose a cheque for £10 to cover materials for the course.