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 member-run monitoring project for Varroa destructor, the world's most damaging honeybee parasite. The map updates as keepers submit checks — turning routine sugar-shakes and alcohol washes into an early-warning network for our suburbs.
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. Members get 10% off everything we stock.
Browse the store →Speaker night with Q&A, hive reports, and member updates. New beekeepers especially welcome — pull up a chair, have a cuppa, ask anything.
Observe our club hives with expert guidance from Wednesday-night regulars. Bee suits available to borrow.
Our annual intro-to-beekeeping evening. Perfect for new members and the bee-curious.
"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.
Mentor pairing, all events free or discounted, 10% off the store, the members area, the diary, the swarm rota — and a community that picks up the phone.
BSB 033-624 · Account 276428
North Western Bee Club
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