The members of Cumbria Beekeepers Association have between them many years experience in all aspects of beekeeping, honey and wax production, cooking with honey and a variety of crafts skills.

The articles below represent individual opinions and ideas ~ if you have any articles you would like to share please let us know.

Training & Advice

Hive Record Card ~ MS Word file

How to get bees from a National to a Langstroth
Peter Matthews

Hive Hygiene ~ Ian Homer

Cooking with Honey

Honey Recipes 1 ~ Lorraine Priestley

Honey Recipes 2 ~ Lorraine Priestley

Honey Recipes 3 ~ Lorraine Priestley

Honey Recipes 4 ~ Lorraine Priestley

Knitting & Crafts

Knitted Bee ~ Lorraine Priestley

Encaustic Art ~ Lorraine Priestley

Information Leaflets & Posters

Carlisle Beekeepers Association ~ leaflet

Oil Seed Rape ~ A4 poster

Orchards ~ A4 poster

Bees in Books & Films

Bee Movie ~ film
Fun if not terribly accurate portrayal of life in the hive

The Secret Life of Bees ~ book & film
Gentle coming of age story set in 1964 in North Carolina

The Monk and the Honey Bee ~ dvd
The story of Brother Adam and the Buckfast bees
~ may be borrowed from club library ~

These Articles require Adobe Acrobat Reader.

Click on the Adobe icon if you need to download Adobe Acrobat.

Snowdrop ~ Walter McPhee

Bees in the Media ~ BBC Videos

BBC News - The economic value of bees

BBC News - 10 amazing facts about bees

BBC News - Where have all the bees gone?

BBC News - £10 million for beekeeping

BBC News - Chimps go wild for honey

These articles are from BBC News and BBC Earth News

www.bbc.co.uk/news

www.bbc.co.uk/earthnews