① The club
Meetings & mentors
Monthly Wednesday gatherings at Westvale, a beginner's pathway, and 1-to-1 mentor pairings for your first two seasons.
About the club →Twenty-five years of beekeeping in Melbourne's north-west — open meetings on Wednesday evenings, hands-on workshops at our Kings Park apiary, mentor pairings for new keepers, and a small honest store stocking the kit our members actually use.
Varroa Watch is a proposed community monitoring project for Varroa destructor, the world's most damaging honeybee parasite. The public map can display accepted records; new submissions are paused until the club approves and enforces a publication workflow.
Monthly Wednesday gatherings at Westvale, a beginner's pathway, and 1-to-1 mentor pairings for your first two seasons.
About the club →Our teaching apiary at Kings Park — open hive sessions, swarm rota, shared extraction equipment, and bee suits to borrow.
See what's coming up →Hive tools, smokers, capping bags, honey jars and queen-marking pens. Member-price guides are reviewed by the club before an order is accepted.
Browse the catalogue →"Don't buy a hive yet. Come see ours. Hold a frame. Stand quiet for ten minutes by an open colony on a warm day. That tells you everything."
I joined for the bees and stayed for the people. Every meeting, I still learn something new.
We started with no idea what we were doing. The mentor scheme paired us with a regular and we haven't looked back.
It's the only club I know where a beginner and a thirty-year keeper end up swapping notes over the same cup of tea.
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