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Every Sunday from 2-4pm, the Teaching at Apiary is open to all, to improve your skills, start your beekeeping journey, or just come and see if you like it. There are suits and gloves (bring wellies!) if you don't have your own. The first half hour is usually a talk and the full programme of week-by-week topics can be found under Associations, (choose Ipswich) then Teaching Apiary and the schedule is down the left of the page. There are three experienced beekeepers there each week, waiting to teach, help and answer your questions. 

Everyone is welcome. 

Any queries, contact the Ipswich Secretary in the first instance

Update - due to (s)low take up by Ipswich members, we are able to take members from the other associations (by confirmation) rather than run the day with too few people - book early to avoid disappointment!

Our Annual Bee Safari is a great day. We visit the apiaries of members of the association, in a different area each year. It is really interesting to see how others are set up and the locations they are using. We have our National Bee Unit inspectors with us and they will lead and inspect all the colonies and point out instances of pests and diseases as we go. 

You will need to bring a packed lunch and water, but we will be meeting in a building where there are toilets and water

If you want to be part of it, our places are strictly limited, you need to pre-book with Jon Tuppen, who is kindly coordinating and has organised the apiaries we are due to visit in 2026; around the Sproughton and Copdock area this year. Reserve your place by emailing jon.tuppen@btinternet.com. Further details when your place is confirmed (start and end times are to indicate it is all day, to be confirmed)

It is essential that your bee-suit is spotlessly clean, along with new or clean gloves and boots. The last thing we want to do is import something awful into someone else's apiary! The image below is of the boot bucket we will be bringing (with a brushand the same solution as our cleaning buckets) so that we can all clean our boots between apiaries (the wellies are size 13). 

Update - due to (s)low take up by Ipswich members, we are able to take members from the other associations (by confirmation) rather than run the day with too few people - book early to avoid disappointment!

Our Annual Bee Safari is a great day. We visit the apiaries of members of the association, in a different area each year. It is really interesting to see how others are set up and the locations they are using. We have our National Bee Unit inspectors with us and they will lead and inspect all the colonies and point out instances of pests and diseases as we go. 

You will need to bring a packed lunch and water, but we will be meeting in a building where there are toilets and water

If you want to be part of it, our places are strictly limited, you need to pre-book with Jon Tuppen, who is kindly coordinating and has organised the apiaries we are due to visit in 2026; around the Sproughton and Copdock area this year. Reserve your place by emailing jon.tuppen@btinternet.com. Further details when your place is confirmed (start and end times are to indicate it is all day, to be confirmed)

It is essential that your bee-suit is spotlessly clean, along with new or clean gloves and boots. The last thing we want to do is import something awful into someone else's apiary! The image below is of the boot bucket we will be bringing (with a brushand the same solution as our cleaning buckets) so that we can all clean our boots between apiaries (the wellies are size 13).