Links to Beekeeping
Bee Keeping Information
Main British site for beekeeping is the British Beekeekeepers
website. This
is now a well developed site with many links to topics on beekeeping
and other branches of the BBKA.
The National Bee Unit delivers the
Bee Health Programmes on behalf of Food and Environment Research Agency
(Fera)
and Welsh Assembly Government (WAG)
in England & Wales.
The
NBU website also provides information on the functional activities of
the NBU, legislation, pests and diseases including their recognition
and control, interactive maps, current research areas, publications,
advisory leaflets and key contacts. Register
online as a Beekeeper and you can request a free apiary visit
from your local inspector who will provide any help and advice you
need.
For a good coverage of beekeeping knowledge which is
excellent the voted best beekeeping website of the world is www.somersetbeekeepers.org.uk
.
Beekeeper Equipment
The major supplier of beekeeping equipment in our area
is E.H.Thorne (Behives)
Ltd they
supply a
large range of products through online shopping. You can browse the
catalogue and see all the gadgets and equipment on offer for
beekeepers.
You can buy a Sherriff garment direct from Brian Sherriff's site.
He also sells a range of bee
gifts that may interest you.
Caddon Hives located in
the Scottish Borders, are a Father and Son team, and have been
selling WBC and National hives now for nearly 5 years. Their hives are
made to the BBKA standard from Cedar sourced from selected Sustainable
forest management (SFM).
Books
You can now view and buy books from Northern Bee Books at www.GroovyCart.co.uk/beebooks
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Interest Groups
The neighbouring Devon Beekeepers Association is an
active umbrella
organization to represent all the associations in Devon and has a
useful website http://www.devonbeekeepers.co.uk
For those looking for beekeepers near Newton Abbot try http://www.newtonabbotbees.org.uk
they are part of the The Devon Beekeepers Association.
The site http://www.honighaeuschen.de
contains a web catalog http://www.webkatalog-imkerei.de
of several beekeeping sites and gives a possibly German view of
beekeeping.
Bees for Development’s New website www.beesfordevelopment.org
Incorporating a brand new feature: The African Information
Portal
funded by the Wales for Africa Fund of the Welsh Assembly Government.
Important
partners donating additional funds are: The Rowse Family Trust and the
Anglo American Group Foundation. The Web site consists of several
thousand pages and is the largest bee-information website, and the only
such site focussing specifically on the developing world.
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