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PBKA Centenary Honey Show a triumph!!

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The PBKA Honey Show held last Sunday was a triumph, worthy of the Association’s centenary!

The venue was The George’s in Market Street, Haverfordwest and certainly proved to be very popular with the large number of the public who came to admire the exhibits and try the different honey samples from around the County!

The quantity and quality of entries was very high, with the membership doing the Association proud.

Many thanks to everyone one who attended and particular thanks to all those members of the public who came along to try our wares and ask lots of questions about bees!

We hope to see you all again next year!

 

 

 

Pembrokeshire Beekeepers’ Association – Centenary Honey Show – Sunday 27th October

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Celebrating 100 years of beekeeping in Pembrokeshire, this year’s show is set to be a special event, where the public will be most welcome to come and celebrate with us in the relaxed atmosphere of The George’s, Market Street in Haverfordwest from 2pm to 4pm – FREE OF CHARGE!

All of the judged exhibits will be on show in the lovely light & airy rooms upstairs overlooking historic Market St and will include, not only an amazing array of honey and honey comb but, honey confectionery, cakes, wax sculptures, candles, mead, photography and bee keeping equipment. In fact all things BEE!

With honey to taste from all over Pembrokeshire, a quiz (with prizes) to enter, a FREE goody bag and lots of friendly beekeepers around to chat to, we do hope you’ll come along and help celebrate the association’s efforts to promote the education and health of honey bees in our beautiful county.

Oh, and the bar will be open for refreshments too.

We look forward to seeing you!

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‘Poster Competition’ for all children aged 11 and under!

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CALLING ALL BUDDING YOUNG ARTISTS…. COMPETITION TIME……

Just to remind all children aged 11 or under, of our poster competition for the ‘PBKA Centenary Honey Show’ this coming Sunday 27th October at The George’s, Market Street, Haverfordwest.

We are looking for a special A4 poster to celebrate ‘100 years of beekeeping in Pembrokeshire’.

Entries can either be dropped off at The George’s in Haverfordwest, any time before Sunday 27th, or on the day if you prefer, when the doors are will be open for entries at 10am and should be in by 11am.

Please note that the Poster Competition is open to all children aged 11 or under, whether PBKA members or not!

The winning entry will receive a special prize and a VIP visit to the Beekeeping Centre at Scolton Manor, with afternoon tea!!

We look forward to seeing your entries!

Note that the Honey Show will be open to the general public between 2pm and 4pm – FREE OF CHARGE!

PBKA Centenary Honey Lunch at the Wolfscastle Country Hotel, Treffgarne – Sunday 17th November 2019

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Would PBKA members please note, that the PBKA Centenary Honey lunch is on Sunday 17th November at the Wolfscastle Country Hotel, Treffgarne. If you or your partner etc. wish to attend, please notify Christine Johnson of your menu choices by 9th November at the latest, via email at pbkacentenary@gmail.com

PBKA Centenary Lunch Menu

1:00 for 1.30pm Sunday 17th November 2019

To start

  1. Cream of vegetable soup, rustic croutons
  2. Smoked Caesar salad Smoked chicken breast, croutons
  3. Squash, spinach risotto Parmesan crisp
  4. Smoked Salmon & prawn cocktail With Marie rose sauce

Mains

  1. Slow cooked Welsh brisket Yorkshire pudding, red wine gravy
  2. Corn fed chicken breast Lemon & thyme stuffing, gravy
  3. Confit lamb shoulder Rosemary & orange stuffing, gravy
  4. Roast loin of pork Sage & onion stuffing, gravy
  5. Herb crusted cod White wine sauce, king prawns
  6. Wild mushroom wellington Vegetarian gravy

Sweet

  1. Sticky toffee pudding Butterscotch, vanilla ice-cream
  2. Triple chocolate brownie Raspberry Sorbet
  3. Baileys cheesecake, chocolate sauce, ginger biscotti
  4. Apple & mixed berry crumble Custard

3 courses £19.50

2 courses £15.50

The PBKA Honey Show – a chance to shine?!

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The Association has run the annual honey show for many years, but it is true to say that it has not attracted much interest from the wider public in the past.
This year is hopefully going to be different. We celebrate the centenary of the Association and the Committee has recognized the need to engage more effectively with Pembrokeshire folk, to promote the protection of bees in general and honey bees in particular.
This is where you, as PBKA members, come in. [Ask not what your Association can do for you but what you can do for your Association – I’m sure that sounds familiar?!].
You will have seen the Show Schedule on the website and there are plenty of sections for you to enter. Whilst we have not put it on the Schedule for this year, there is the late addition of an additional Cup on offer for the person accruing the highest number of points overall!
For those of you new to exhibiting, just make sure that your entries are clean, so no bits of wax or specks of dirt [or bits of bee], jars are filled to the mark [1lb but not overfilled – have you noticed that continuous line around a 1lb jar below the screw threads?], take spare lids in case honey has splashed onto the underneath during transit, no granulation starting and just go for it.
There is also another new Award, the Bad Beekeeping Cup for those beekeepers who have made something of a blooper in their beekeeping activities – and are prepared to admit it! All it takes, apart from courage, is for you to jot your “mistake” down on a slip of paper and pop it into the Bad Beekeeper box at the show or e mail it to jeremypercy@gmail.com
This show is the chance for the Association to really raise the profile of, and the need to protect and support, insect life in Pembrokeshire, but the Committee cannot do it alone.
An attraction at the show, apart from goody bags, a quiz and so on will be the chance for the public to taste honey from around the County, and vote for their favourite. PLEASE would members consider providing a jar of their honey [it has after all been a good year!] so that we have a wide range of honeys for this initiative. You can drop a jar into The Georges, at any time [closed Sunday / Monday] or on the day of the show. And don’t forget to label it please!
Apart from the public, it is also a good opportunity for a social gathering of members, so please do come along [the bar is open] to meet your fellow beekeepers even if you are not exhibiting, to look at the entries and catch up on everyone’s season.
Your support for the show, and your company will be very much appreciated and I genuinely look forward to seeing many of you there.
Jeremy
Chairman PBKA

PBKA Centenary Honey Show 2019 schedule

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At ‘The George’s’, 24 Market St, Haverfordwest SA61 1NH

Sunday 27 October 2019, from 10am

  • Judges: To be confirmed
  • Certificates will be awarded for 1st, 2nd & 3rd in each Class. Cups are awarded as indicated.
  • All honey to be exhibited in unmarked 1 lb / 454 gm squat jars with plain lids.
  • Open for entries between 10am and 11am, to allow judging to start promptly at 12noon.
  • The Honey Show will be open to the Public between 2pm and 4pm.
  • All entries, except for 22. A4 Poster, are for PBKA members ONLY!

N.B. Entries only to be collected after 4pm at the end of the Honey Show 
  Class Cup
1. Light Honey – 2 jars Steel and Brodie Cup
2. Medium Honey – 2 jars Tom Pegg Cup
3. Dark Honey – 2 jars  
4. Granulated Honey – 2 jars Tavernspite Cup
5. Creamed Honey – 2 jars  
6. Chunk Honey – 2 jars  
7. Composite Class – 1 jar each of Light, Medium and Granulated Honey A J Davies Shield
8. Novice* Class – 2 jars of runny honey Novice Cup
9. 1 frame of honey suitable for extraction Ian Richards Cup
10. 2 cut combs minimum weight 6oz / 170g each  
11. 1 Bottle of Dry Mead D.S. Engraving Cup
12. 1 Bottle of Sweet Mead Sweet Mead Cup
13. 1 Bottle of Flavoured Mead  
14. Beeswax Plain 8oz / 225g minimum  
15. Beeswax Fancy 8oz / 225g minimum Taylor Shield for Beeswax
16. 5 x 1oz (approx.) moulded wax blocks  
17. Three Beeswax Candles to be displayed erect, the Judge to light one  
18. Photograph related to Beekeeping  
19. Interesting or ingenious piece of beekeeping equipment made by the exhibitor  
20. Honey Cake to be made to the recipe below Honey Cake Cup
21. Any other confection or bakery containing honey – entry must include a list of ingredients  
22 A4 Poster – subject ‘100 years of Beekeeping in Pembrokeshire’. N.B. Open to all children age 11 or under, whether members or not  
23. Best Honey in Show Manor House Shield
24. Best Exhibit in Show Frank Matthews Cup
*Novice means that the entrant has not previously won a first in any honey class

Honey Cake recipe:

Ingredients:

227g / 8oz self-raising flour

115g / 4oz butter/margarine or mixed

115g / 4oz currants

57g / 2oz mixed peel

2 large eggs

115g / 4oz sultanas

227g / 8oz Welsh honey

Pinch of salt 

Method:

Preheat oven to 160° C., Gas 3 or 325° F. Adjust for fan oven. Cream butter and honey. Beat eggs well and add them alternatively with the sifted flour but save a little flour to add with the fruit. Beat all together lightly. A little milk may be added (up to 3 tbl spoons if necessary. Fold in the fruit and stir well. Bake in a well-buttered 18cm / 7inch round cake tin for approx. 1-1 1/4 hrs or until just firm to touch.

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