Elouera Vale Beekeeping Field Days
STARTING RIGHT WITH BEES FIELD DAY
Come join us for a relaxed day of beekeeeping at Elouera Vale, Mittagong, in the beautiful Southern Highlands and learn how to manage your hives productively to maintain optimum health and productivity of your hive. This Field Day will be run by experienced beekeepers, Harvey and Dennis, who will provide opportunity for hands on experience in all aspects of seasonal management. There will be plenty of opportunity to ask all the questions that have been bothering you and hear from the experts as they share their experience. This Field Day is designed for people who are interested in keeping bees or already have a hive and are interested in developing a sound knowledge base. There will be a strong emphasis on the practical side of beekeeping weather permitting and a strong theoretical base to back it up.
Some of the topics covered will include:-
- Types of hives - their structure and where to acquire them and the advantage of one hive over another
- Equipment needed to start up
- Where to get bees and what to ask for
- Preparing and lighting a smoker
- Manipulation of the hive
- Suiting up correctly
- Brief outline of pests and diseases
WHEN - Saturday 3rd September 2022 Contact Lynne if interested.
WHERE - 'Elouera Vale', Mittagong, NSW
TIME - 9am-4pm
What to bring
Your PPE gear -bee suits and gloves must be freshly cleaned.
Your lunch
A camp chair if you own one, otherwise seating is provided.
What will be provided
Morning tea/coffee
Agskills guide book in beekeeping
COST - $200.00/ person
ADVANCED BEEKEEPING FIELD DAY
Topics covered include -
- A more detailed look at pests and diseases including varroa mite
- Barrier systems
- Introducing queens to the hives
- Handling and marking queens
- Advanced seasonal management
- Swarm control
- Checking hives for queens, AFB, SHB, EFB, Varroa and brood
- Manipulation of the hive
- Use of hive inspection sheets
WHEN - Saturday 24th September 2022. Contact Lynne if interested.
WHERE - 'Elouera Vale', Mittagong, NSW
TIME - 9am-4pm
What to bring
Your PPE gear -bee suits and gloves must be freshly cleaned.
Your lunch
A camp chair if you own one, otherwise seating is provided.
What will be provided
Morning tea/coffee
COST - $200.00/ person
Payment
Full payment 4 days prior to an event. Receipt of payment will be emailed to you.
EFT
Name: LE Deeth
Bank: NAB
BSB: 082883
Reference: use your full name/course date
COVID SAFE
Anyone can participate in educational outdoor gatherings.
- You are not required to be fully vaccinated or carry vaccination evidence.
- COVID-19 Safe Check-in is not required.
- We will comply with any Government COVID regulations/Health Orders.
ACCOMODATION
Can be arranged for those travelling long distances. Camping/ B&B accomodation is available but needs to be arranged when booking.
REGISTRATION
Complete and submit the form at the end . . . . . . . . make sure you hit the Register tab on completion
ENQUIRIES:- lynne@eloueravale.com.au
Your learning facilitators
HARVEY - Harvey started his beekeeping journey from the age of 14 on his parents farm in the North of England. Keeping his passion alive alongside his professional football career for 20 years and then finally residing in Australia, Harvey now specialises in the art of instrumental insemination with Queen bees and breeding, travelling to UK and parts of Europe to gain knowledge on a regular basis, working with specialist genetic Queen Breeders on different strains - Italian, Carniolan, Caucasian and Buckfast stocks, looking to the future in perfecting the apis mellifera honey bee. He is now based in the Southern Highlands and teaching Certificate III in beekeeping to a wide range of school students, amateur beekeepers and apprentices in the commercial sector. He also has a Cert 4 in training
DENIS - Denis started his beekeeping career working with his uncle for over 30 years. He helped him with his bees and in 1996 he inherited them. Denis is very familiar with the environmental challenges of the Southern Highlands. He is also very adept at making his own equipment with great care and can modify according to need. He was an early member of the Southern Highlands Apiarist Association and he willingly shares his experiences to those seeking advice. His knowledge of bees and how to manage a hive is extensive. He is very 'Bee-Knowledgeable' and hands-on with bees. Denis also has a cert 3 in beekeeping.
2. Elouera Vale Queen Bee Rearing Weekend Field Day Workshops
This Queen Bee Breeding weekend workshop is being run by industry respected experienced specialists and is designed particularly for the experienced beekeeper who would like to expand into queen breeding, or for the home beekeeper who is interested in breeding their own bees for certain genetic traits.
At the completion of the workshops you will have a good understanding of how to :-
Graft queen cells with correct aged larvae
Raise quality queen bees
Implement a queen breeding program
More specifically, this 2 day program will include -
Day 1 -
- Queen bee rearing principles
- Cell bars and cell raising colonies
- Grafting
- Managing small numbers of cells
- Biology of honeybees
- Castes
- Reproductive system
- Lifecycle
- Importance of nutrition and disease management
Day 2 -
- Genetics
- Breeding program and selection of stock
- Drone mother hive management
- Nucleus colony size / management
- Mating yard design
- Catching, marking, clipping and caring for queen bees
- Packing, mailing and transporting queen bees
- Banking queens
- Queen candy
- Queen bee introduction
- Artificial insemination
WHEN – 15th & 16th October OR 29th & 30th October, 2022
WHERE - 'Elouera Vale', Mittagong, NSW
TIME - 9am-4pm each day
- Freshly cleaned PPE gear.
- Lunch (morning tea provided)
Your learning facilitators
HARVEY - Harvey started his beekeeping journey from the age of 14 on his parents’ farm in the North of England. Keeping his passion alive alongside his professional football career for 20 years and then finally residing in Australia, Harvey now specialises in the art of instrumental insemination with Queen bees and breeding, travelling to UK and parts of Europe to gain knowledge on a regular basis, working with specialist genetic Queen Breeders on different strains - Italian, Carniolan, Caucasian and Buckfast stocks, looking to the future in perfecting the apis mellifera honey bee. He is now based in the Southern Highlands and teaching Certificate III & IV in beekeeping to a wide range of school students, amateur beekeepers and apprentices in the commercial sector.
DENIS - Denis started his beekeeping career working with his uncle for over 30 years. He helped him with his bees and in 1996 he inherited them. Denis is very familiar with the environmental challenges of the Southern Highlands. He is also very adept at making his own equipment with great care and can modify according to need. He was an early member of the Southern Highlands Apiarist Association and he willingly shares his experiences to those seeking advice. His knowledge of bees and how to manage a hive is extensive. He is very 'Bee-Knowledgeable' and hands-on with bees.
Payment
Full payment at time of registration. Receipt of payment will be emailed to you.
EFT
Name: LE Deeth
Bank: NAB
BSB: 082883
Account: 329813322
Reference:use your full name/course date
COVID SAFE
Anyone can participate in educational outdoor gatherings.
- You are not required to be fully vaccinated or carry vaccination evidence.
- COVID-19 Safe Check-in is not required.
- We will comply with any Government COVID regulations/Health Orders.
ACCOMODATION
Can be arranged for those travelling long distances. Camping/ B&B accomodation is available but needs to be arranged when booking.
(you will be provided with a queen bee raising kit and the DPI book “Queen Bee Breeding Ag Guide”
REGISTRATION
Complete and submit the form below . . . . . . . . make sure you hit the Register tab on completion.
ENQUIRIES:- lynne@eloueravale.com.au
Bee Experience Registration
