East Surrey
Bees offer Professional Teaching and
Tuition.
We
run professional courses for beekeepers of all levels of
experience. Tutors have teaching qualifications and extensive
beekeeping experience. We have over two hundred honey producing
hives and raise nucleus colonies for sale.
Buy direct
from us!
Beautiful
candles and
local honey.
During the summer we will be at a number
of fetes and fairs around the area. It is a lovely chance for us to
meet customers and to show off all the things we produce from the
beautiful honey and wax made for us by our hard working
girls.
Contact us to fine out where we will be
next.
We run professional courses for beekeepers of all levels of experience.
Tutors have teaching qualifications and extensive beekeeping experience.
We have 'Taster Days' for
beginners, day couses on activities relating to beekeeping and also
run Corporate Days for businesses who want something a little
different.
Buy direct from us!
Beautiful candles and local
honey.
Caterham Homegrown and Handmade Fair,
Soper Hall, Caterham Valley,
1st Saturday of the
month.
Warlingham Craft Market,
The Church Hall, the Green
Warlingham,
usually second Saturday of the
month.
We have a range of hive products available from our two hundred plus, honey producing colonies. We produce raw honey which is extracted from a single site at a time so that you can buy honey local to you.
We also produce cut comb
honey and pure bees wax
candles.
We can now
offer bees wax polish and furniture cream as well as a limited
supply of propolis and pollen.
Now taking orders for nucs with overwintered queens for Spring2024 collection.
Please use the contact
form.
We produce nucs for sale in the spring and early summer.
We also specialise in raising docile bees from
our own queens which are available from early
summer.
East Surrey Bees have a wide range of talks, presentations and demonstrations for all age groups. From pre-school and Early Years groups through school age children to adults, we can develop a presentation to suit your requirements on a range of topics.
In addition to talks for Beekeeping groups we
also give fun and educational talks and demonstrations to all ages
from pre-school groups, Nursery, Primary and Secondary schools to
Colleges and Universities. We also do talks and visits for the
uniformed groups such as Brownies, Cubs, Scouts and Guides. We have
given talks to Natural History Societies, Museums and Horticultural
Groups as well as the Women’s Institute, Rotary and the Round Table
are just some of the organisations that we have given presentations
to irecently.
NEWS
International Meeting of Young Beekeepers
We were very pleased to be part of the IMYB in
Marlborough in July 2017. This amazing weekend saw teams of young
beekeepers between 12 and 16 years of age taking part in two days
of bee keeping challenges. Some of the activities were using the
twenty colonies of our beautifully docile bees taken to the venue
for the event.
The
National honey Show
The second cohort of the Rowse/ Bee Farmers Apprenticeship scheme were asked to give a talk at the National Honey Show in October 2016.
Sunday 25th September Kew Gardens
Invited to give talks to the
public at intervals throughout the day, it was a wonderful
oportunity to interact with people of all ages from all over the
world. It is an amazing structure and do pay a visit if you
get a chance.
March 2016 T.V Cameras at East Surrey Bees
On the 10th March we had a visit from Good Morning Britain! Originally the piece was to air on TV on Monday 14th March for National Apprentice week, but unfortunately there wasn’t time in the busy schedule of the programme but the film has been made into a video that can be viewed on the internet. Lara Manton, one of the students on the Bee Farmers /Rouse Apprenticeship scheme, spoke eloquently about the importance of the three year course. There are some wonderful shots of the apiary and just a few shots of bees under the roofs being fed candy by Lara. Many thanks to Alice Maguire the ‘Good Morning Apprentice’ and camera man Ollie for making such a good film.
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Student success
at the Irish National Honey Show - July
2015
It was great to hear from an attendee of the Further Candle Making Course at Harper Adams back in March, that his candles had won him third prize in the prestigious Honey show at Gormanston this summer. Below is an extract of his email.
"Earlier this year I attended your candle making course on the last day at Harper Adams……and a couple of weeks ago we both went to the Irish National Honey Show at Gormanston and I took along 3 of the first candles I ever made by the dipping process that you showed us.
I have attached a photo of the result. The judge must have been a bit impressed with the technique rather than the candle uniformity or wax quality!!!"
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East Surrey Bees is on Radio 4 - August 2015
Beatrice Fenton from Radio 4's' Farming Today'
programme, interviewing Apprentice Bee Farmer at the East Surrey
Bees Apiary.