Honey Show 2024

Get Ready For The 2024 Honey Show!

The sweetest weekend of the year is almost upon us – the Inverness-shire Beekeepers' Association Honey Show takes place on 21st and 22nd September 2024 at Simpsons Garden Centre in Inverness. Read on for more information and a link to our show schedule.

Whether you're a newcomer to the wonderful world of exhibiting your wares or a veteran prize-winner with a rainbow of rosettes already strung up in your shed, we encourage you to come along and enter your honey, beeswax creations, skeps, photographs, mead, baking and more. It's a fun, friendly competition and a chance to get some well-deserved recognition for all the hard work that you and your bees have put in during this rather wet and windy season.

"Start preparing your entries now so we can make the 2024 show memorable and the best one yet... don’t have a mad rush and panic the week before the show!"

– Wise words from Charlie Moir, our Honey Show Secretary

Full details of categories and guidelines can be found in the show schedule. Judging takes place on Saturday 21st September and starts at 10am, so you need to get your entries in between 5pm and 6pm on Friday evening (20th), or between 8.30am and 9.30am on Saturday morning (21st). Members of the Honey Show team will be on hand to welcome you. We ask that you print and fill out your entry form before you arrive. The show is open to all beekeepers, and IBA members can also sell honey and hive products over the weekend.

Once the judging is over, exhibits must stay on their benches until 4.30pm on Sunday (22nd). Meanwhile, visitors to Simpsons can chat to beekeepers, buy local honey, try their luck at our tombola, and peer into the observation hive. Bring your family and friends... you never know, they might get a better understanding of what you actually do in that funny suit every week!

See you at the show, we hope. Good luck!