The SBKA Bee Market 2025 will be on the 17th May 2025 at Uckfield Community College.
PROGRAMME
- 9:00 Registration of auction entries
- 10:00 Bee Market opens to the general public.
- 11:00 Brief talk about ‘How to Take up Beekeeping’ – by Malcolm Wilkie Chair of High Weald Division in theatre AG02
- 12:00 Children’s activities – In the workshop we look at the life inside a beehive, the children act out the different roles of the bee and at the end we taste honey from around the world and get to eat the “bee eggs, nectar and pollen” the children also take away an activity sheet.. by Maggi Pratt a nursery practitioner and Co-owner of the ‘Bee People’ bee keeping supplies company. The workshop will be in Reading Room AG14
- 12:00 Invited talk on “The Honeybee Solution to Varroa … in the South East” – by Steve Riley. The talk will be in theatre AG02
- 14:00 Auction of Bee Equipment, & Bees in theatre AG01
- 16:30 Bee Market Closes
This year’s Bee Market talk – “The Honeybee Solution to Varroa … in the South East” – by Steve Riley
Steve Riley is the current Chair and Education Officer at Westerham Beekeepers, a club in the south-east of England. He is a member of the “Path to Varroa-resistance in the UK” team that launched the education and science website: www.varroaresistant.uk in April 2023. He presents on “Identifying Varroa-resistance Traits” to beekeeping associations around the UK, including sessions and seminars at the BBKA Spring Convention and National Honey Show.
