The 2022 National Honey Show had the usual stunning display of honey entries, plus exciting and inspired wax, craft and confectionery entries, well worth a visit just to see and admire all of these. We hope it will encourage you to have a go yourself, and encourage the younger generation to join in as well. You can browse the usual classes on our website, and there will also be special centenary classes next year, so do look for next year’s entry schedule around Easter time.
The first of the videos from the 2022 lecture programme, ‘Bees that Survive Varroa’ by Jeff Pettis, President of Apimondia, is now available to view on The National Honey Show YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/nationalhoneyshow
Further lecture videos will be released at 5.15pm (UK time) on the first Friday evening of each month. You can set YouTube to remind you, and while waiting for the next video browse the extensive portfolio of ‘how to’ videos and lectures from previous shows.
This year, we continued the venture we started last year, of bringing you videos live from the show. We started with Bob, our Chairman walking through the setting up on Wednesday; Enid, our Judges Referee talked about the judging as it was happening on Thursday. Each day brought a new aspect of the show to share with you, including a visit to the skep making workshop by Eric Tourneret, whose incredible bee photography will be on display as a special centenary exhibition at next year’s show. Many thanks to Richie Litchfield, borrowed from the team videoing the lectures, for sharing his expertise so that you can still view these videos on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and we will also add them to The National Honey Show YouTube Channel.
We hope you will enjoy all the videos, and look forward to seeing you at next year’s special centenary show: 26 to 28 October 2023 at Sandown Park Racecourse, Esher, Surrey, UK.