Honeybees in Dulwich

In the Bell House vegetable garden, Annie McGeoch will introduce the basics of beekeeping, describing life inside the hive, the life cycle of honey bees, and the beekeeping year. While honeybees are doing well wild bees and all insect populations are declining.

She will talk about ways we can promote the many species of bees, from planting for pollinators to food production in agriculture. It’s a huge subject for discussion in the garden surrounded by insects.

During the evening, there will be an opportunity to look inside the three hives at BH and see what we have discussed, the queen, workers and drones. If the weather is rainy and cold we cannot open the hives so we can postpone until conditions are more favourable or talk indoors.

About the Group Leader

Annie has been looking after honey bees for ten years, both her own and other peoples’ colonies around Dulwich. She is on the board of the London Beekeepers’ Association.

THE EVENT WILL TAKE PLACE IN THE GARDEN. PLEASE WEAR STURDY SHOES, PREFERABLY WELLIES, DEFINITELY NO SANDALS OR OPEN TOE SHOES AND WEAR TROUSERS. PARTICIPANTS WILL BE LENT PROTECTIVE BEE SUITS.

PLEASE DO NOT ATTEND IF YOU ARE ALLERGIC TO BEE STINGS

Ticketing

Tickets are £20 each which includes a jar of honey to take home. Please note that if honey stocks are low we may need to wait for the new batch of honey in September.