Jane learnt beekeeping from her mother in the 1970s, when the activity was rather different! She setย up her own apiary in Warwickshire and joined the” WLBKA” She has found learning about changes and developments in beekeeping an ongoing enjoyment and passion. In her early years of beekeeping, she kept around 40 hives and learnt a good deal about keeping bees on a larger scale. However, Jane realised that her interests are in the study of beekeeping rather than honey production.ย Since 2010, she has reduced her hive numbers to a maximum of a dozen in two or three apiaries near her home. This has allowed Jane to experiment with methods of queen rearing and do more training and education activities at branch, county, and national levels. Jane became a Master beekeeper in 2013.
๐๏ธ Saturday 7th Nov 2026
๐ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
๐ The Old Tool Shed Winterbourne Gardens, 54 Edgbaston Park Road, Edgbaston B15 2RX
๐ค The honey within your honey
๏ Bring along some samples of your honey and Maarten and Vesna will put it under a microscope to find out what your bees have been foraging on. At the end of the session, we would love to try some of your honey in our honey picnic.
This will be a charity event in aid of Children with Cancer.
๐๏ธ Saturday 28th Nov 2026
๐ 10 am – 11 am
๐ Dame Elizabeth Hall, Firbank Close, Bournville B30 1UA
๐ค Greg (Fruitfield’s Apple orchard and apiary emporium, bonus speaker TBC)
๏ Greg from Fruitfield’s orchard and apiaries is coming to enrich us with a little background to his Fruitfield’s apple juice and honey family business and how it has developed over the last 8 years. This warming, interactive talk will last for around an hour with a quick Q&A session afterwards to help understand their set up. Greg is going to bring plenty of fresh apple juice to taste and buy. His family focuses on very local fruit varieties that need a great deal of attention from their honey bees that are an essential part of that process.
๐๏ธ Saturday 5th Dec 2026
๐ 5 pm –ย
๐ Toby Carvery, 563 Hagley Road, Quinton B32 1HP
๐ค Branch Christmas Meal
๏ Our Branch Christmas meal this year will be held at the Toby Carvey in Quinton. Come along and join in the festivities and let’s celebrate our beekeeping year with some lovely food amongst friends.
