Available to download from the website www.honeyshow.co.uk early April 2023.
Members of the National Honey Show will be able to collect their Schedule of Competitive Classes at the Spring Convention. The National Honey Show stand will be located in the Not-for-Profit area of the Regional Food
Academy at Harper Adams University. Any not collected will be posted to members afterwards. There will also be the opportunity to renew membership or join the National Honey Show at the stand.
The convention programme will be available as a separate booklet later in the year.
Special Centenary Classes for 2023
In addition to our usual selection of classes for you to enter, we have some special classes for 2023 as shown in the extract from the Schedule (left).
Some are inspired by classes from the past as discovered in books, and we anticipate your enthusiasm and ingenuity to provide displays of these classes which will be remembered in years to come.
Honey show members, non members, exhibitors, in fact all are invited and welcome to enter classes in the show. More details are in the full schedule. Closing dates to send your entry forms for early entries is 11th September 2023;
All other entries by 9th October 2023 and
late entries 16th October (extra fee £10).
During a nectar flow the bees build brace comb to a pattern provided by the beekeeper in a super or eke.
Examples of displays of Comb design (Class 82) from displays shown in W Herrod-Hempsall’s 1948 book : “Producing, Preparing, Exhibiting and Judging Bee Produce.”
“Shop window – only viewed from the front with a panel at the back for advertising or decoration. An attractive design to encourage shoppers to enter & buy the produce! “
Above: example of a shop window display (Class 83) from W Herrod-Hempsall’s book.