Irish Bees and Beekeeping

Hi Seoirse,

If you send me your email and Txt I can send you the details;

roundwoodbee@gmail.com

Best Regards,
John
Chairperson Roundwood Beekeepers.

Hi Folks,
Anybody that has or is thinking of keeping bees I would strongly urge you to join your local society.
In our case for Roundood you can contact Brian on 0862491250 and he will give you details of membership and the costs.
This year we offered “Newbies” as well as the structured meetings we have, a hands on under hygenic guidelines for different site visits, as keeping bees is all about the practical and pooling of information.
If you wish to join us in, membership of Roundwood last year was €25 if you have bees (this provides your insurance policy for your hives) and €17 without and obviously membership of FIBKA.
Being a member you get access to 7-8 annual meetings our Library and lectures and as much advice guidance and experience as you can handle about all aspects of beekeeping from existing members with Tea/Coffee and Biscuits!
Personally this is only my fourth year into bees (6 hives on 2 sites)and 3rd year keeping them and we have a real mix of young, old, experienced and Novice members.
We try to structure our meetings on an open forum basis so everybody has an input rather than just sitting there listening for a couple of hours and ask as many questions as you like and importantly we are there to help and support new beekeepers and always on the end of a phone.
I wish any future beekeeper well in whichever society you join and if you would like to come along to Roundwood you would be made very welcome.
John

For anybody interested in joing Roundwood we have our first meeting as below.
If you are registered with us you should have received below info already;

Hello Fellow Beekeepers,

We intend on having our next meeting 1st week in October on Wednesday the 5th at our normal time of 8pm at the Old School Roundwood.

I will send an email and text reminder nearer the time.

Topics for our meeting will include;

• Members observations for the Summer months.

• Jobs for the Month of October

• Irish Bee News (Fibka Etc) Gormanstown

• International Bee News
There will also be an open forum discussion to include
Report on site Visits and installation of nucs into new hives.
Thoughts on losses from swarming and what we can do to prevent swarms.
And any other thoughts or experiences you have had during summer period.
For those that have bees I hope you all had successful harvests and are in Varroa treatment mode right now and we look forward to seeing you all in October.

Best Regards,
John