Annual competition judging and presentation of trophies.

Announcement of the winners of our poetry competition.

Drawing of the Christmas hams attendance incentive.

Topic to be determined.

Annual General Meeting and Election of Officers.

Presentation on “When do I re-queen my hive?”

Topic to be determined but we may have a hands-on workshop on honey extraction using the new GCRB 8 frame extractor

This is a chance for members to sell any homemade products and to teach people about bees.

Member Peter Nixon is going to talk to us about his long hive and top bar hives.

Drew will be demonstrating how to split a native bee hive and how to extract honey from a native bee hive. This will be followed by a member’s forum on preparing your hives for winter.

The GCRB is hosting a field day. The field day will include beekeeping equipment suppliers having stalls on site, other stalls and presentations by industry experts in the lunch room which will be converted to a 50-seat ‘lecture’ room.