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SUMMARY:Annual BBQ
DESCRIPTION:This popular event is fast approaching\, hosted again by the Beardsworths at Brickhills Farm.    We need to know as soon as possible if you are coming\, so please reply now. \nEntry is free to members and their families\, but please RSVP below if you are coming\, selecting meat or vegetarian options\, so we can plan the catering.   Unfortunately a website crash has lost all records of those who replied so please RSVP again if you are coming.
URL:https://hbka.org.uk/event/annual-bbq/
LOCATION:Brickhills Farm\, Scholes\, Cleckheaton\, BD19 6LY\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Events
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ORGANIZER;CN="Roger Pool":MAILTO:rogerwpool@btinternet.com
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SUMMARY:All Change - plans for comb management
DESCRIPTION:With EFB at Southowram\, the Association Apiary is obviously unfit for a visit.  This meeting was cancelled in May but has now been rescheduled to The Good Shepherd\, where there will be practical demonstrations without bees. \nThe current advice is that brood comb should be changed every 2-3 years to prevent disease build up within the colony. \nAt this meeting we will look at various methods of achieving this with practical demonstrations: \n\nannual piece- meal change\n50% change in a double brood\nBailey comb change\nShook swarm method\nusing nuclei to draw comb\n\nWe will also look at an alternative method of varroa estimation using a sugar roll.
URL:https://hbka.org.uk/event/apiary-meeting-shook-swarm-etc/
LOCATION:Good Shepherd RC Church\, Mytholmroyd\, HX7 5EA
CATEGORIES:Events
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ORGANIZER;CN="Roger Pool":MAILTO:rogerwpool@btinternet.com
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250409T193000
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SUMMARY:Members Preserntations
DESCRIPTION:We are looking forward to an interesting selection of members presentations. A plentiful supply of cake will help mark the end of our winter talks. \nPresentations will include: \nFermenting with honey\nUsing wax to make cosmetic products\nHow I rear queen\nHome made kit \nFollowed by free cakes
URL:https://hbka.org.uk/event/members-preserntations/
LOCATION:Good Shepherd RC Church\, Mytholmroyd\, HX7 5EA
CATEGORIES:Events
ORGANIZER;CN="Roger Pool":MAILTO:rogerwpool@btinternet.com
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250326T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250326T213000
DTSTAMP:20241015T095447Z
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SUMMARY:Apiary Bio-Security
DESCRIPTION:Huddersfield BKA would like to extend the invitation to their winter talk on Apiary Bio-Security by Mark McLoughlin\, Regional Bee Inspector. \nWednesday 26th March 2025 – to arrive at at 7.00pm for a 7.30pm start with an approximate finish at 9.30pm.\nAt Broad Oak Bowling Club\,\n74 Hazel Grove\, Linthwaite\, Huddersfield\nHD7 5TE
URL:https://hbka.org.uk/event/apiary-bio-security/
LOCATION:Broad Oak Bowling Club\, 74 Hazel Grove\, Linthwaite\, HD7 5TG
CATEGORIES:Events
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ORGANIZER;CN="Roger Pool":MAILTO:rogerwpool@btinternet.com
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250312T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250312T210000
DTSTAMP:20250213T135012Z
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SUMMARY:Making better bees: stock improvement for the hobby beekeeper
DESCRIPTION:We all want better bees – be that better tempered\, more productive\, improved and frugal overwintering\, disease and pest resistant\, more long-lived queens. \nKarl Colyer has been keeping bees since 2003 and makes his living from the 80 colonies he runs from his base in Cheshire. Being a professional beekeeper having the best stock possible is of paramount importance. \nKarl takes a do it yourself approach to beekeeping\, building his own hives and other equipment from salvaged materials – see his many articles in BBKA News – so don’t expect him to be advocating spending cash buying in expensive queens. The bees you need will already be close to home\, most likely in your own apiary here in Calderdale. \nKarl will cover how he appraises his colonies\, and how you too can decide on which are your best queens. He will then outline simple methods\, well within the capabilities and budget of the average small-scale beekeeper or beekeeping group\, for raising the excellent queens you want\, based on his experience of producing well over 1800 queens in his beekeeping career.
URL:https://hbka.org.uk/event/making-better-bees/
LOCATION:Good Shepherd RC Church\, Mytholmroyd\, HX7 5EA
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250212T193000
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SUMMARY:Wax and Honey- Raising the Bar
DESCRIPTION:The aim of this session is to help members prepare good quality honey and wax. All members are welcome but we hope it will be particularly helpful for those in their early years of beekeeping. \nBy the end of the session you will be able to present your honey and wax at a standard suitable for gifts\, sale or showing. \nWe will cover: \n\nhow to prepare and bottle honey\nthe labelling requirements for selling honey\nhow to prepare clean wax from cappings\nsome simple methods of making candles\n\nPresented by Roger Pool and Chris Dale
URL:https://hbka.org.uk/event/preparing-for-the-honey-show/
LOCATION:Good Shepherd RC Church\, Mytholmroyd\, HX7 5EA
CATEGORIES:Events
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ORGANIZER;CN="Chris Dale":MAILTO:mailto:chris.j.dale@btinternet.com
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250115T193000
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SUMMARY:‘Lessons learnt’
DESCRIPTION:Elaine Robinson discusses her best and worst beekeeping decisions . \nFollowed by free Pie & Peas.  Please click on RSVP and choose if you want meat or veggie pie and try to let us know by Sunday 12th to enable ordering.
URL:https://hbka.org.uk/event/master-bee-keeper/
LOCATION:Good Shepherd RC Church\, Mytholmroyd\, HX7 5EA
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241211T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241211T210000
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SUMMARY:Fascinating Stories of Honey Bees and their Relationship to Beekeepers
DESCRIPTION:Presented by  Jacques van Alphen \nPlease note the change of venue to St Michael’s Anglican Church\, Mytholmroyd\, HX7 5DS. This is on the same side of Cragg Vale Road as The Good Shepherd but closer to the main road junction.  Ample parking is available at Mytholmroyd Community Centre\, HX7 5AF. \nOur speaker will be Jacques van Alphen who will be joining us on Zoom. For information about Professor van Alphen see https://www.northernbeebooks.co.uk/products/alphen-honeybees/ \nWe will be a live audience in Mytholmroyd sustained by a plentiful supply of mince pies and Christmas cake! \n 
URL:https://hbka.org.uk/event/honeybees-a-natural-and-less-natural-history/
LOCATION:St Michael’s\, Church Street\, Mytholmroyd\, HX7 5DS\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241106T193000
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SUMMARY:Cooking with Honey
DESCRIPTION:Cooking with Honey – Dianne Shepstone who works in the Dept of Food and Science at Leeds University. \nPlease see suggested recipes attached. There are a few test recipes\, a couple of easy cakes/biscuit recipes and a couple that are more challenging. \nIt would be great if  members bring their  own  attempts at the recipes to the meeting.  Please let us know in advance what you are bringing\, so everyone doesn’t bring the same thing!  It will also help Dianne to know which ones she needs to bring examples of.  Volunteers please contact secretary@hbks.org.uk \nIf you have a favourite honey recipe that you would like to bring along instead of one Diane’s recipes that would be excellent. \nPlease feel free to invite partners\, spouses or friends interested in cooking to this meeting. Please encourage them to bring along a recipe attempt as well!  And everyone should bring a good appetite! \nA further collection of Dianne’s recipes is on the BBKA website here \n*Note this meeting is on the first Wednesday of the month\, not the usual second one.*
URL:https://hbka.org.uk/event/cooking-with-honey/
LOCATION:Good Shepherd RC Church\, Mytholmroyd\, HX7 5EA
CATEGORIES:Events
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ORGANIZER;CN="Roger Pool":MAILTO:rogerwpool@btinternet.com
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