An article I wrote on Beginning Beekeeping (an Adobe Acrobat pdf file) also there are some links to other good or useful web sites and a list of useful suppliers . Contact me
As I have recently moved house and now cannot keep bees at home I have some equipment for sale. It will be going into the MVBKA auction, I hope in May, but anyone who would like to buy any of it before then, there is a list here. equipment.pdf updated 10th March 2010
Links to web sites I found useful or interesting
Hampshire Beekeepers Association
British Beekepers Association
Scotish Beekeepers Association
Beekeeping Database Net Resources
Bee Hoo
"World's Beekeeping Directory"
British Honey Importers and Packers Association
Lots of recipes and other honey information.
National Honey Board
USA site with lots of
recipes. (watch the measures they are different to UK ones)
Discover Bumble Bees
lots more links to local associations
A few suppliers
Honey-B Supplies
Good local supplier for a
wide range
Bumble Barn
Redwood Lane
Medstead
Hampshire
GU34 5XA
Tel:&Fax:(01420) 561661
Email:
Bee Basic Ltd
Great suits, and tools at very competitive prices
Lowest cost suits we've found, buy through the association to save postage
5 Hillcrest Avenue
Pinner
Middlesex
HA5 1AJ
Tel: 020 8866 3864
Answerphone:020 8200 0429
Email:
BB Wear
Great suits, special deals for Beekeepers' Associations
especially
helpful in encouraging young beekeepers
1
Glyn Way
Three Milestone
Truro
Cornwall
TR3 6DT
Tel & Fax: (01872) 273 693
Email:
National Bee Supplies
(formerly Exeter Bee Supplies)
Good range, great catalog.
Merrivale Road
Exeter Road Business Park
Okehampton
Devon
EX20 1UD
Tel: (01837) 54084
Fax: (01837) 54085
Email:
B. J. Sherrif
Great bee suits
Carclew Road
Mylor Downs
Falmouth
Cornwall
TR11 5UN
Tel: (01872) 863304
Fax: (01872) 865267
Email:
E. H. Thorne
(Beehives)
Ltd
Every thing but the kitchen sink
Behive Works
Wragby
Lincolnshire
LN8 5LA
Tel:
(01673) 858555
Fax: (01673) 857004
Email:
Thornes of Stockbridge
Sale in September.
Chilbolton Down Farm
Stockbridge
Hampshire
SO20 6BU
Tel: (01264)810916
Email:
Maismore Apiaries
(Wax foundation and other things)
Old Road
Maismore
Gloucester
GL2 8HT
Tel:
(01452) 700289
Fax: (01452) 700196
Email:
KBS
(everything to do with wax)
Brede
Valley Bee Farm
Cottage lane
Westfield
Hastings
TN35 4RT
Tel: 01424 870737
Fax 01424 870729
Email:
Vita Europe
(Apistan & Apiguard)
Brook
House
Alencon Link
Basingstoke
RG21 7RD
Tel: 01256 473176
Fax 01256 473179
Email:
Brunel Microscopes Ltd
Unit 6 Enterprise Centre
Bumpers Farm Industrial Estate
Bumpers Way
Chippenham
SN14 6QA
Tel: 01249 462655
Fax: 01249 445156
Email:
B & K Books
(Many unusual and rare titles, modern and antique...)
Karl & Betty Showler
"Riverside" Newport Street
Hay-on-Wye
Hereford
HR3 5BG
Tel: 01497 820386
Dorset Country
Beekeepers
(Hives to Jars)
51
Avon Road West
Christchurch
Dorset
BH23
2DF
Tel: 01202 486974
Northern Bee Books
(Books &
Beekeepers' Quarterly)
Scout Bottom
Farm
Mytholmroyd
Hebden Bridge
West Yorkshire
HX7 5JS
Tel:
01422 882751
Fax: 01422 886157
Email:
C.Wynne Jones
(Hives to Jars, associations call for bulk prices)
Ty Brith
Pentrecelyn
Ruthin
Denbighshire
LL15 2SR
Tel: 01978 790279
Fax: 01978 790265
Email:
The Bottle Company (South) Ltd
(Glass & Plastic Container suppliers)
Unit 1
Ashmead Trading Estate
Ashmead Road
Keynsham
Bristol
BS31 1UG
Tel: 0117 986 9667
Fax: 0117 986 6335
The Honey Shop
(Honey related products, equipment, books and skin care products)
Camelot Country Products,
Curry Rivel,
Somerset
TA10 0HB
Tel: 01458 253098
Email:
Bee Craft Ltd.
(Monthly Full colour magazine)
79
Strathcona Avenue
Bookham
Leatherhead
KT23 4HR
Tel: 01372 451891
Email: