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Conwy Beekeepers – Gwenynwyr Conwy
Apiary Meeting gallery, April 2018
Winter Apiary Meeting, January 2018
Apiary sites offered or wanted
Buying and selling hives of bees…making the deal.
Buying and selling local honey
Buying secondhand hives of bees
Cutting out a colony of feral bees
Honey Jars for you 2018
In praise of the Sycamore
Preparing for a good honey harvest
Rescuing a wild colony of honeybees
Buying and selling nucs of bees
How to transfer bees from a 5-frame nucleus hive
Honey extracting kits for hire
Bottling and labelling honey
Preparing the bees for winter
Measuring beehive stores in winter
Preparing beeswax for sale
What do you use beeswax for….?
Planting a bee friendly garden
Bardsey Bees update 2012
Beekeeping courses at the Woodland Skills Centre, North Wales
Beekeeping Courses with BeesWales
Eglwysbach Show and Llanrwst Show schedules 2018
How to win prizes at the Honey Show
A History of Conwy Honey Fair
Conwy Seed Fair and Honey Fair dates
Our collections in aid of Bees for Development
Getting cash in Conwy town
How to sell honey at Conwy Honey Fair
Places to stay and places to visit in Conwy
Tales from the Honey Fair
Croeso, welcome to the Conwy Beekeepers’ website
Welsh honey for sale at the Visitor Centre
Honeybees collecting turquoise pollen from hydrangea villosa.
Conwy Seed Fair 2017
Rowen village with Tal y Fan mountain. Mixed woodland up to 800ft
A swarm has settled under a mesh floor
Mixed fruit juices, all relying on pollination by bees
Good quality hives sold in 2016
Woodland Skills Centre, 50-acre site, 40 acres of woodland
Varrox oxalic acid vaporizer
Hive of bees with wild comb
Bee collecting water from a bird bath. Pic from Barry Griffiths.
The Prince of Wales at the opening of Bees Wales in 2012
Live video of Bee Inspectors at work at Bees Wales apiary
Home apiary, 9th July 2018
Mead, Best in Show at Eglwysbach
Hywel Jones prize cards
New website pages Buying and selling local honey
Our next Apiary Meeting is on Sat 25th August at 2.30pm, at Tal y Cafn Apiary. We will be checking for a laying queen, and assessing the colonies for the winter.
Thurs 13th September Conwy Honey Fair. We are taking bookings for stalls now.  See information for stallholders
You can join Conwy Beekeepers  online here
Here’s a good beekeeping blog, full of useful information   http://theapiarist.org
New website pages Beehive stands and Buying and selling hives of bees…making the deal.
You can see Conwy Beekeepers working with the bees at Tal y Cafn on ITV Wales’ Coast and Country here. at about 11:00 minutes.
Many thanks to everybody who supported the 2017 Conwy Honey Fair. Conwy was full of visitors all day. We had over 20 beekeepers selling honey.  Our collection in aid of Bees for Development raised £560. This unique Fair attracts beekeepers from all over North Wales, and honey lovers from far and wide. Put them together and you have an amazing event, still true to its 730-year old roots. Edward 1st would be proud of us! You will never see honey selling so quickly. Conwy Honey Fair, Thursday 13th September 2018. We hope to see you here.
Conwy Beekeepers was founded in 1978 as Aberconwy and Colwyn Beekeepers’ Association. In 2002, we became Conwy Beekeepers’ Association, and in 2014 we became Conwy Beekeepers Limited, a Company limited by Guarantee. We are the second largest BKA in Wales (Cardiff has a few more members) with over 160 members, including about six of the original members. We are based in the county of Conwy in North Wales, and we have members all over the county and beyond. Many of our members have only one or two hives of bees, and a few have over 40 hives. We have members just starting with bees, a lucky few who have had bees for over 50 years, and one whose family has kept bees continuously since 1912.
We have organized the Conwy Honey Fair and the Conwy Seed Fair since 1990, and these have become major events again.  We raise funds for Bees for Development at both Fairs, to encourage people in the developing world to become self-reliant through beekeeping. We raised a record £900 at the Honey Fair in 2014.
In 2004, we initiated the Conwy Feast, which has become the largest food event in North Wales; and more recently the National Beekeeping Centre for Wales. These are run by separate Community Interest Companies.
Our aim is to encourage people to keep bees, and to raise public awareness of the importance of bees, and to produce honey! We just love being with our bees and talking about beekeeping. Every year is going to be the best honey year ever.
We hold monthly lecture meetings at Craig y Don Community Centre in the winter, and regular summer meetings with the bees at our apiary at Tal y Cafn. We are partners in providing a popular winter evening course. The course is held at Henfaes Research Centre near Bangor, in association with the National Beekeeping Centre for Wales. The course, now in its 12th year, attracts new beekeepers from all over North Wales, and many become members of Conwy BK.  The Beekeeping Centre also runs taster days and intensive weekend courses.
Conwy BK is affiliated to the Welsh Beekeepers’ Association.
Visit the WBKA website for info on other BKA’s in Wales.
We hope you enjoy our website, and we would love to receive your comments.
Croeso i wefan Cymdeithas Gwenynwyr Conwy.
Sefydlwyd CGC yn 1978, ac erbyn hyn mae gennym dros 150 o aelodau, a chwech ohonynt yn aelodau ers y cychwyn. Rydym wedi ein lleoli yn sir Conwy, un o ardaloedd hardd gogledd Cymru, a daw ein haelodau o bob rhan o’r sir a thu hwnt. Rydym i gyd yn cael mwynhad o’n gwenyn. Un cwch sydd gan nifer fawr o’n haelodau ond mae gan ambell un gynifer a 60, ac mae profiad gwenyna yn amrywio hefyd o’r niferoedd gwenynwyr newydd i’r ychydig sy’n gwenyna ers dros 60 mlynedd. Bu teulu un ohonom yn gwenyna’n ddidor ers canrif!
Ers 1990, bu’r gymdeithas yn trefnu ffeiriau hynafol Conwy, sef y Ffair Fel sy’n 700 mlwydd oed, a’r Ffair Hadau, ac maent bellach wedi dod yn boblogaidd iawn, ac yn llwyddiant unwaith eto. Yn ystod y ffeiriau, byddwn yn codi arian ar gyfer “Bees for Development”, elusen sy’n cynorthwyo pobl yn y trydydd byd i ddod yn hunan- gynhaliol drwy gadw gwenyn.
Yn 2004, buom yn flaenllaw yn sefydlu Gwledd Conwy sydd bellach yn ddigwyddiad blynyddol hynod boblogaidd, ac hefyd, yn fwy diweddar,sefydlwyd Canolfan Gwenyna Genedlaethol i Gymru. Erbyn hyn mae’r ddau sefydliad yn cael eu gweinyddu gan gwmniau cymunedol pwrpasol.
Mae ganddom dri nod arbennig, sef
I annog pobl i gadw gwenyn.
I godi ymwybyddiaeth o bwysigrwydd gwenyn.
Gwahoddir siaradwyr i gyfarfodydd misol yn ystod y gaeaf, yng nghanolfan gymunedol Craig y Don, ac yn yr haf cynhaliwn ddyddiau arbennig ar gyfer dechreuwyr, a chyfarfodydd ymarferol yn ein gwenynfa ni yn Nhal y Cafn. Trefnu’r cwrs wythnosol dros fisoedd y gaeaf, mewn cydweithrediad a’r Canolfan Gwenyna Genedlaethol i Gymru, yng nghanolfan ymchwil Henfaes ger Bangor. Daw gwenynwyr newydd o bob cwr o ogledd Cymru iddo a bydd nifer fawr ohonynt wedyn yn ymaelodu a CGC.
Mae CGC yn cydweithio a chymdeithas gwenynwyr Cymru (WBKA).
Ewch i wefan WBKA am fwy o wybodaeth am gymdeithasau eraill Cymru.
Gobeithio y gwnewch fwynhau ein gwefan, ac mae croeso i chi ymateb a rhoi eich sylwadau.
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