During the winter months we meet at the Parish Church Rooms, Tavistock PL19 9DA (see Google map below). The rooms are separate from the church and are located across the Plymouth Road, next to the Bedford Hotel.
The entrance to the rooms is located just behind the blue car in the photograph below.
Access to the Parish Rooms is via a path behind the car
Directions to the Parish rooms
Events through the year 2020
| Date | Topic | Venue |
|---|---|---|
| Tuesday 12th January. by Zoom 7.15 for 7.30pm | Beekeeping Quiz – run by Martin Hann and Clare Densley – by invitation from Plymouth BKA Prize for top scoring Tavistock member. | Plymouth BKA Zoom Link will be sent by email |
| Thursday 14th January. Zoom Meeting 7.15 for 7.30pm | Presentation by John Walters, entomologist, film maker and artist. | Invitation to an Okehampton BKA Zoom meeting. Link will be sent by email |
| Wednesday 20th January. Zoom Meeting 7.15 for 7.30pm | Experiences of Beekeeping in Tanzania – ‘Mr Tony – Baba Nyuki’ In this second presentation, Dr Tony Herbert, talks about the practicalities of developing and setting up a sustainable beekeeping apiary in a Tanzanian village. | TBKA Zoom Link will be sent by email |
| Wednesday 17th February. 7.15 for 7.30pm | Talk by Liz Wescott. Liz will talk about her experiences in becoming a beekeeper and how that has developed over the years. She is a published poet, has an online shop for bee products, has been Chair of Torbay BKA, is Secretary for South Devon Honey Show, runs Basic Assessment Courses and is in charge of the DBKA tent at the DEvon County Show and other things too. | TBKA Zoom Meeting Check email for invitation |
| Wednesday 17th March 7.15 for 7.30pm | Honey Adulteration Presentation by Lynne Ingram. Lynne recently gave an informed and alarming talk about this at the DBKA AGM in December. Her talk was so good that we asked her to talk to our Club members about this too. | TBKA Zoom Meeting Check email for invitation |
| Wednesday 21st April 7.15 for 7.30pm | How to extract those difficult honeys. Olly Nolan will tell us how to do it! He is a bee farmer in Ireland and started off surrounded by fields of OSR. He sells award winning honey and has a line in Ivy Honey. | TBKA Zoom Meeting Check email for invitation |
| Wednesday 19th May 7.15 for 7.30pm | ‘Sex and the Wanton Virgin’ Presented by Martin Hann (Very timely with queen rearing and swarming on the horizon) | TBKA Zoom Meeting Check email for invitation |
| Wednesday 15th September | Bees and Sleep Talk by Professor Barrett Klein. | TBKA Zoom Meeting Check email for invitation |
| Wednesday 20th October | Observation Hives (including the legendary 360 rotating indoor observation hive). Talk by Mark Gibbons | TBKA Zoom Meeting Check email for invitation |
| Wednesday 17th November | TBKA AGM | TBKA Zoom Meeting Check email for invitation |
Our first Bee Tea in 2021 at Colin Trier’s apiary
