Soup Scrape and Scorch 2024
An afternoon of scrubbing at the Apiary, followed by soup and a bonfire. The idea behind Soup, Scrape and Scorch is to get the hive […]
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2025 Spring Beekeeping for Beginners course
Our next beginner’s course will run from Thursday 27th February to 17th April 2025 in Purley, running weekly for eight evenings. Purpose of the course: […]
2024 Croydon Honey Show
The Croydon Honey Show is our annual celebration of bees and beekeeping and will be held this year on Saturday 7th September 11:00am-4pm at The […]
Croydon Honey Show 2024
Our annual celebration of bees and beekeeping. Visitors will be made very welcome – come and look at the produce of the hive, see live […]
2024 Apiary Sessions
With the season (almost) in full swing, the Sunday apiary sessions are set to start again at the Hartley Down apiary in Coulsdon. There will […]
Hartley Down apiary Sunday session
With the season now in full swing, the Sunday apiary sessions at Hartley Down are running again. There will be a variety of practical demonstrations […]
2024 Spring Beekeeping for Beginners course
We are delighted to announce that we now have dates arranged for our next beginner’s course. It will start at 7.30pm on Monday 22nd February […]
The National Honey Show 2023
The National Honey Show is celebrating its Centenary at the forthcoming show, 26 to 28 October 2023. From its inception in 1923 when it was […]
Seasonal Bee Inspector Bee Safari
On August 10th 2023, Danyal Conn and Stewart Westsmith, our local DEFRA bee inspectors, will be visiting the Hartley Down Apiary and demonstrating disease inspection […]
2023 Croydon Honey Show
The Croydon Honey Show is our annual celebration of bees and beekeeping and will be held this year on Saturday 16th September 11:00am-4pm at The […]