Welcome
Welcome to Bridgend and District Beekeepers Association's website.
After a rather lovely start to the summer the weather seems to have gone south, and not to South Wales! Hopefully your hives are still seeing enough good weather to allow the bees out to forage.
A number of our members have kindly opened up their apiaries for other members to visit. We'd like to thank them for their time and remind people to please contact the member hosting the open day to say you will be attending. The next one is being held by Mike Brown on the 2nd August please see the e-mail Sue sent out for further details. We do not post apiary locations on the website due to the issues we had last year with thefts.
Sue has been taking a leaf out of the supermarkets book and started planning our winter education. Forward planning is essential due to the number of beginners signing up for these classes in the last few years. So if you want to avoid disappointment please contact Sue as soon as possible to book your place.
Sadly honeybees today are under threat from disease. It is often difficult for individual beekeepers to keep up to date with new management techniques. Bridgend Beekeepers Association can help with education, purchase of equipment, mentoring new beekeepers, loan of books and equipment, and general support and advice on how to care for and manage your bees for a better crop and healthier bees.
Interested in finding out more about beekeeping? Please come along to one of our apiary days or one of the winter meets at Tondu, Glamorgan. Contact Sue first if you require a loan beekeeping suit.
If you find you are enjoying the buzz (sorry, couldn't resist) of beekeeping you might want to 
Please do drop me an e-mail if there is anything you would like to see on the site or if you spot any errors.
You will see a link to Amazon at the bottom of this page. Please do use it each time you visit Amazon as the Association receives a small fee each time you do this and make a purchase, it doesn't have to be bee related. Alternatively, visit the association shop here. Thank you.