Great to see hives on site and a start to develop the apiary. This will be a very important asset for the club for teaching and hands on experience for members. 

On another matter I congratulate all the new committee on their election and feel confident the club will really develop under their stewardship. 

As Andrew pointed out during his Secretary report we have a large number of members who have not listed their bee registration number on their member profile. I remind all members that it is now a requirement that all beekeepers be registered. Please ensure your registration is completed.

Today we moved the club hives to their new home overlooking the St John's community garden. An exciting development!

The 2017-8 committee was elected unopposed at the AGM on 17th August.  

This event is Sunday 8t October.Further details here.

Article in Sydney Daily Telegraph.  Please note I am not endorsing this, merely reporting it

Details available here

For information, here is a report from one of the hive inspections of the day.

There are also a number of reports from the Steering visits on the mentoring page (members tab).

The club has a Flow hive at the Saxon St site.  I have an electronic hive scale attached and I thought you might be interested to see the data.  Not much nectar coming in at present - Melbourne weather! (although there was a good week Jan 5-12)

Meetings in 2017 will be in the Performance Centre at the Doncaster Secondary College. The address is 123 Church Rd, Doncaster 3108 (Melway map: 33 G12).

Our Flow hive at Saxon St now has nectar in 4 of the 6 Flow frames.  A second brood box has been added to provide room for the expanding colony.

The company has now donated us a full hive kit with pitched roof to complement the Flow super and we need some volunteers to assist in assembling and painting this.