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Hi, I am interested in a beginner course, can you advise cost and availability? Thank you, Ally
04.12.2011 21:17, Henry :
Hi, how much cost training courses. Thanx
02.11.2011 17:55, aine donnelly from dundalk co.louth :
am interested in bee keeping. can you tell me when the next beginers class is on. thank you
03.10.2011 14:23, Ashling Davey :
hi i am interested in starting bee keeping.what beginner classes are u running and how much do they cost?
05.08.2011 20:33, enda murphy :
hi i am interested in starting bee keeping.what beginner classes are u running and how much do they cost?
17.07.2011 15:10, maureen :
Hi, i`m interested in starting bee keeping. What beginner classes are you running and how much do they cost?
07.06.2011 21:44, Vernon Wright from Mullingar, Westmeath :
Before moving from England to Ireland, my wife and I went on a course for beekeepers. We also went a few times to others out apiaries. When we moved to Ireland i bought a hive and bees. but the weather and possibly the diseae killed them. Now I am retired I am thinking about keeping bees again, but wonder if the area we live in is good for bees.
Also what is the cost for a basic hive and tools - all I have left is a hive tool. I think I would prefer a polythene hive. Please advise. V Wright
05.06.2011 03:47, kevin o' rourke from glenamaddy,co. galway :
Is it to late to start a hive and is there any courses starting soon. thanks kevin.
25.04.2011 22:07, Neil O Toole from wicklow :
Hi I am looking for info on courses in 2011, I did one in wicklow all theroy. looking for hands on course,
19.04.2011 21:05, corrina :
Hi, could you let me know details of your course including price and dates and also wether or not I am too late for this year?
thanks!
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For many years I have been urged to write a book on our way of bee-keeping. However, more important undertakings, which would not brook any delay, have hitherto prevented me from giving my attention to the request indicated. Realising that it was a case of either now or never, I have made an effort to meet the widely expressed wish. Bee-keeping at Buckfast can look back on a long tradition. Indeed, the bee boles in a part of an ancient enclosure wall seem to indicate that bees have been kept at the Abbey before the dissolution in 1539. Anyway there where bees on the property when the monks returned to Buckfast in 1882. My own recollections go back to 1910, and my direct participation in our bee-keeping commenced just five years later, when in March 1915 I was appointed to assist Br. Columban, who had been in charge of our bee-keeping since 1895. My introduction to bee-keeping could hardly have come at a less propitious moment. The ISLE OF WIGHT DISEASE, or Acarine, was at its height, and in the autumn of 1915 the county bee-keeping officer predicted that by next spring we would have no bees left. However, of the 46 colonies, 16 survived. All the NATIVE COLONIES SUCCUMBED but those of ITALIAN ORIGIN WITHSTOOD the disease. The summer of 1916 was a favourable one and we were able to make good the losses of the previous winter, and in 1917 we increased the number of our colonies to 100. During the next two years we devoted all our efforts to helping the general restocking of the bee population by dispatching literally hundreds of colonies to all parts of the country. On 1st September, 1919, Br. Columban retired and I was given sole charge of bee-keeping at the Abbey.
(Br. Adam, preface to "Beekeeping at Buckfast Abbey",Spring 1974)
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