Moray Beekeepers

We are a small group of amateur Beekeepers situated on the Moray Firth some 30 miles east of Inverness in Scotland

No hobby is more fascinating or rewarding than beekeeping and nothing gives greater pleasure than eating one's own honey ... honey that tastes as it should!

Honeybees are essential for the environment to pollinate fruit and crop plants, not only for us humans but also for the birds and small mammals.

We hold a series of apiary meetings throughout the summer, April through August.

Moray Beekeepers have hosted a series of Beekeeping Courses this year, for those who were interested in bees and beekeeping but did not necessarily wish to keep bees ... For those interested in keeping bees and would like to know more please contact Tony Harris

"For the bee, honey is the ultimate reality. It represents the fulfilment of her life mission, the triumph over her enemies, the continuity of the hive, the justification for working herself to death. Honey is to bees what money in the bank is to people—a measure of prosperity and well-being. But there is nothing abstract or symbolic about honey, as there is about money, which has no intrinsic value. There is more real wealth in a pound of honey, or a load of manure for that matter, than all the currency in the world. We often destroy the world's real wealth to create an illusion of wealth, confusing symbol and substance." — Wm. Longgood, "The Queen Must Die"

If you would like more information,

Please contact us or in fact turn up at one of the meetings to learn more and we will endeavour to provide you with a bee suit.

Rachel Carson was vilified by an industry smear nearly 50 years ago, after the release of her book, "Silent Spring."

"If we were to follow the teachings of Miss Carson," said American Cyanamid, the makers of DDT, "we would return to the Dark Ages ... insects, vermin and disease would once again inherit the Earth."

But, as Carson so eloquently put it in a CBS documentary in 1964 .....
"Man's attitude toward nature is today critically important simply because we now have acquired a fateful power to alter and destroy nature .....

"As man proceeds toward his announced goal of conquest of nature, he has
written a depressing record of destruction, directed not only against the
earth he inhabits but against the life that shares it with him"

If the bee disappears from the earth, humans only have four more years to live.
No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more humans
“Albert Einstein" (1949)