Our first winter meeting of the 2023-24 season will feature “Food Safety for the Beekeeper” by Andy Pedley.
Andy will deal with the practical side of food safety as it applies to bee keepers, from the hive right through harvest and sale.
Andy has been keeping bees for 30 years and as an EHO developed an interest in the law on food safety as it applies to bee keepers and honey production. Realising that there was a fair amount of misinformation and traditional, but not always good, practice, among bee keepers, he authored a series in BeeCraft on the Food Safety Legislation and has presented talks on this and the Food Safety law as it applies to bee keepers at the National Honey Show and to local associations. Northern Bee Books asked him to produce a book and this is now in print https://www.northernbeebooks.co.uk/products/food-safety-for-beekeeper-pedley/
Andy is currently the Training Apiary Manager for Oxfordshire BKA; this gives him responsibility for 10 colonies there as well as his own 7 in various apiaries around Oxfordshire.