Latest News Cheshire BKA wins fourth Gold Medal at RHS Tatton Cheshire Beekeepers Association has won its fourth Gold Medal at the RHS Tatton flower show. Pamela Hatton, President of Cheshire BKA, said: "We are particularly pleased as growing conditions this year have been very challenging due to the hot, dry weather. Stuart Hatton did a magnificent job with the plant display. "The set-up team and the stewards all worked really hard over the five days of the show with candle-rolling, demonstrating how bees live in a modern beehive, encouraging visitors to plant for pollinators, selling honey and generally talking about bees and beekeeping. We also offered a bee quiz." A new feature this year was live demonstrations of handling bees using two hives in a netted enclosure. The demonstration hive sited next to the enclosure proved so popular it needed beekeepers in constant attendance. Someone commented: "All those bees and not one sting all week!" BBKA would like to congratulate Cheshire Beekeepers Association for another prize-winning display in the bee tent and we are so pleased that all their hard work as paid off. -ends- Manage Cookie Preferences