Events
March Club Meeting
Flow hive co-founder Stu Anderson will demonstrate how to do a disease inspection on hive 3. Following this Stu will be available to answer questions in the lunch room over a cuppa.
April Club Meeting
We are planning to run a series of ’Ave A Go!, workshops where members will have the opportunity to learn new beekeeping skills or to come along and make things for their hives. We are planning for you to be able to ‘Ave A Go at making frames, installing frame wire, installing foundation, making beeswax candles, making cream honey, making fipronil hive beetle traps, and a jumble sale where members can buy and sell items from other members. So, if you are not going away for Easter this year come along and Ave A Go!
May Club Meeting
Sue MacDonald OAM will give a talk on treating bee stings, anaphylaxis and use of EpiPens. Members present will also have the opportunity to use an EpiPen.
February Club Meeting
The meeting will start at 8:30 am with the hive inspections and rob. Club Biosecurity Officer Fiona Fernie and I will be leading a hands-on workshop on how to do a disease inspection of the brood on hive 5 which will include a soapy water test for varroa mite.
Once all the inspection gear has been cleaned up and packed away, we will adjourn to the lunch room for a cuppa and sausage and a presentation by Fiona on changes you will have to make to your hive management techniques when Varroa gets here. Fiona will then demonstrate how to scorch a hive box to ensure you rid it of all pests and diseases.
We will also have our usual raffles with more great prizes to win, including a 1 kg bag of coffee beans, a large jar of honeycomb, and a small string of bee LED lights.
January Club Meeting
The meeting starts with the hive inspections and rob and once all the inspection gear has been cleaned up and packed away, we will adjourn to the lunch room for a cuppa, sausage and a presentation by committee member Martin Carroll, about the GCRB Web page. I will follow this with a quick tour of the GCRB Beekeeping Training and Resources Hub. We will also have our usual raffles with a honey sieve and a 10 frame unassembled box as two of the prizes.
December Club Meeting
Annual competition judging and presentation of trophies.
Announcement of the winners of our poetry competition.
Drawing of the Christmas hams attendance incentive.
October Club Meeting
Annual General Meeting and Election of Officers.
Presentation on “When do I re-queen my hive?”
September Club Meeting
Topic to be determined but we may have a hands-on workshop on honey extraction using the new GCRB 8 frame extractor
Father’s Day Evening Market at Bunnings Nerang
This is a chance for members to sell any homemade products and to teach people about bees.
August Club Meeting
Member Peter Nixon is going to talk to us about his long hive and top bar hives.
July Club Meeting
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.
Field Day
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.
