In April I hope to give a presentation about natural beekeeping. For me a challenge, it will be the first time for me to talk about looking after my bees to an audience. I know I can talk till the cows come home about bees to my Api friends, but this is different. These people are going to pay the local nature school to hear me!! Oh gosh I hope I get it all together. I am a chaotic talker….. This is going to be very hard….. At this moment I am trying to put together a power point presentation that will be interesting, not too wordy but informative enough. I went to such a meeting last month. It was given by a man who knew a great deal about birds of prey. He was very good. He had wonderful photo’s, spent hours outside in camoflage tents to get just that picture. A really interesting presentation. It was that evening that I saw my own name on the upcoming events list. I had forgotten all about ever saying yes to a friends request to give a talk….
Now I have seen how good they can be…. I am terrified. Any kind of tips that my two readers might have for me could come in very handy…..
I have three hives that seem at this time to still be safe. Our weather is very changeable so I haven’t seen them flying outside yet. I have been taking mashed up honey and fondant to them weekly just in case they need it. I always think of this time as worrying. you will all share that I’m sure. My apiculturist friend, Johannes, lost all six of his bee colonies in January. If ‘my’ bees do do well then we have quite some high expectancies of our bees because they have 12 new hives to provide new bees for and I would like to get as many as possible of those new bees from swarming and not from splits.