Lecture Convention

National Honey Show 2009 Programme and Lecture Convention

Venue: St George’s College, Weybridge, Surrey KT15 2QS. Disabled facilities

Honey Show Classes

Speakers profiles
The 2009 National Honey Show Workshops are also listed in the programme and need to be booked in advance to guarantee a place.

Admission: £12.00 (Non – Members) Purchase Membership
Members FREE Accompanied Children, 16 yrs and under, FREE

Thursday 29th October
1:45 Doors open.
2:00 Opening Ceremony Dennis Ryan, President, FIBKA.
2.30 Workshops (4)
- Encaustic Art – Painting with Wax - Norrie Mills.
- Preparing Honey for the Show Bench - Peter Schollick.
- Honey Sections Production - Terry Clare.
- Making your own Mead - Peter Springall.
2:30 Dr Jim Tew Some Unique Behaviours in the Private World of the Honey Bee.
3:45 Dr Jennifer Berry The Queen and Package Industry in America.
5:00 National Honey Show AGM. Followed by the Annual Meeting of the National Council. These meetings have been moved to Thursday to allow more Lectures and Workshops on Saturday afternoon.
6:00 Show closes.

Friday 30th October
9:30 Show opens
9:30 Franc Sivic Slovenia – Its Bees and Beekeepers, in Full Colour.
10:00 Workshops (4)
- How to make beeswax flowers - Liz Duffin.
- Preparing Wax for Show - Peter Bashford.
- Candle Making - John Chandler.
- BBKA Module – Basic Exam - Tom Salter.
11:30 Dr Jim Tew American Foulbrood – Still a problem after all these year?
2:00 The Jean Blaxland Memorial Lecture Gloria Havenhand Your Health – How bees can help.
2:30 Workshops (4)
- Encaustic Art – Painting with Wax - Norrie Mills.
- Make your own Toiletries - Dr Sara Robb. Info
- BBKA Module 2 Margaret Thomas.
- The Beekeeping Ladder: from Hobbyist to Commercial or Semi-Commercial Beekeeper - A Bee Farmer.
4:00 Dr Jennifer Berry The Sub-Lethal Effects of Miticides on Honey Bee colony Health and Performance.

Saturday 31st October
9:30 Show opens
9:30 Dr Jennifer Berry Historic Perspective on Honey Bee Decline Including the Latest on Colony Collapse Disorder.
10:30 Workshops (4)
- Encaustic Art – Painting with Wax - Norrie Mills.
- Make your own Toiletries - Dr Sara Robb. Info
- How to make beeswax flowers - Liz Duffin.
- BBKA Module – Exam Technique - Val Francis.
11:30 Philip McCabe Harvesting and Marketing Honey.
1:00 Dr Jim Tew The Benefits of Keeping Bees.
1:30 Workshops (5)
- Preparing Honey for the Show Bench - Peter Schollick.
- Food Legislation & The Beekeeper - Andy Pedley.
- Honey Sections Production - Terry Clare.
- Introduction to Beekeeping - John Hendrie.
- Make your own Toiletries - Dr Sara Robb. Info EXTRA WORKSHOP
2:30 Franc Sivic Slovenia – Its Bees and Beekeepers, in Full Colour.
3:45 Presentation of Trophies and Awards
4:30 Show closes

Cups and Trophies

National Honey Show Workshops

The times for each workshop are shown in the programme and lecture convention on page 3-6 in the printed programme or above. All workshops are scheduled for a maximum of two hours duration.

The workshops will take place in Science rooms but, in view of the limited space available, the number of attendees will be limited. This will facilitate a more informal discussion and ensure each person will receive proper attention.

Workshops

Booking Workshops
Anyone wishing to attend a workshop should register before the show by contacting Peter Matthews to be assured of a place on the day.

You can book either by email silverhiveNOSPAM @ btinternet.com. (remove NOSPAM and spaces or click link) or telephone 01461 205525.

All participants who have reserved a place MUST confirm their presence a minimum of 15 minutes before the start of the workshop as failure to do so will result in the space being reallocated.

Speakers Profiles

Dr. Jennifer Berry
Jennifer Berry is Apicultural Research Coordinator and Lab Manager at the University of Georgia. She’s actively involved in all aspects of honey bee research and education for the state of Georgia. Her primary areas of research have been a queen breeding programme and Integrated Pest Management work for varroa mite control. The breeding project is a long term programme in which resistant stock is continually selected - as well as traits for honey production, brood production and gentleness. Jennifer travels extensively and speaks to local, state, national and international beekeeping associations. She was last year’s EAS president and successfully held the 2006 meeting in Young Harris, Georgia. She writes a monthly article for Bee Culture magazine.

Gloria Havenhand
Gloria Havenhand, owner of Troway Hall and bee-keeping centre in Derbyshire, lectures on the health-giving and restorative properties of untreated honey and bee pollen and donates all lecturing fees to the charity. She is the author of the best selling book “Your health, how bees can help”. "In my lectures, I often mention that Bio-Active Honey has been used for centuries for wound healing including during the Crimean, Napoleonic and both World Wars. "

Philip McCabe
Philip is PRO and a past President of the Federation of Irish Beekeepers Association (FIBKA) and was President of Apimondia Ireland 2005, the world Beekeeping organisation. He is a third generation beekeeper from Newbliss, Co. Monaghan. His grandfather began with two skeps around 1880 and his father, who was born in 1896, worked three Congested District Boards (CDB) hives for sections and received his bee-masters certificate in 1924 from the Rev. J. D. Digges, known as the ‘Father of modern Irish Beekeeping’.

Through the FIBKA examination system Philip holds a third level qualification in Apicultural Science and is a much sought after lecturer, not only in Ireland but also in the UK, America, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. He currently works 60 hives, mostly national in five apiaries.
In 1995 he developed a system for the pollination of strawberries in Tunnels without any noticeable loss of bees using a specially adapted floorboard, which is now widely used particularly in northern Europe. His headquarters for beekeeping is the Adult College at An Grianan, Termonfechin, and HQ of the Irish Country Women’s Association (ICA).

In June 2005 Philip attempted to break the world record for a mantle of bees by having 350,000 bees attached to his body wearing only shorts. Because of the cold day, 15c, 270,000 were all that landed on him. €20,000 was raised for Bothár, a local charity working in the ‘Third World’ because of this event. Philip can be heard each Monday on Ireland’s national radio, RTE1

Franc Sivic
Franc was born in 1940 in Ljubljana, Slovenia. He graduated as an Engineer of forestry and has been engaged in beekeeping since 1957. He is an active beekeeper and currently keeps 50 colonies. He is vice president of the Slovenian Beekeeping Association and was the President of the National committee for organizing Apimondia 2003 in Ljubljana.

Franc has written two books on beekeeping which have been produced in six languages including English: "Honeydew producers in Slovenia" and "Living with bees". In his spare time he is an award winning photographer, recognized 8 times with awards at Apimondia. Franc is currently involved in developing International Apitourism (Bee tours).

Dr. Jim Tew
Dr. James E. Tew has been working with honey bees for more than thirty-six years. He is a professor in the Department of Entomology at the Ohio State University where he has taught classes, written publications, developed video programmes, conducted research, and interacted with the public. Dr. Tew is a long-time monthly contributor to Bee Culture magazine having written articles on most common bee topics. He has travelled widely exploring his beekeeping interest in behavioural and managerial aspects of beekeeping. Dr Tew and his wife, Vallie, have three married daughters and three grandchildren.

Disabled Facilities

St George's College is disabled-friendly, and, except for one room at the top of the building, is accessible by wheelchairs. There are also three wheelchair-friendly toilets.

National Honey Show 2009 Programme and Lecture Convention

National Honey Show Workshops

Speakers Profiles

Disabled Facilities

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