It was all hands to the deck on Saturday when fourteen members joined the work party to prepare equipment, garden, apiary and cottage for the new season of beekeeping.

Hive parts were painted, cleaned and sorted. The seeds were planted in the raised planting beds and the garden and apiary were made tidy. The steam cleaner worked overtime in the first stage of cleaning wooden hive parts that were then scrubbed by the cleaning team using a soda crystal wash 

Jonathan & Ross painting hive parts

Zander, Lorraine and camera shy Keith  scrubbing crown boards & queen excluders

Helen C and Val working in the raised garden beds