9 th March 8.30am - 3pm 23rd March 8.30am - 3pm $180.00 for both days Part One: Planning your Beekeeping for Pleasure or Profit ● What do you need to know before you begin ● Costs ● Your legal requirements ● Where’s best for your hives ● The time it takes to beekeep ● Plants […]
9 th March 8.30am - 3pm 23rd March 8.30am - 3pm $180.00 for both days Part Two: Building and creating the hive and equipment you need Build your hive ● Learn how to maintain it ● The best tools to use and why ● Products you need and what you do with them and where […]
Join us for a fundraiser at the fine dining restaurant at Ara. It's a Club Dinner to help us get to know each other as we start the season together. It will help raise funds to get a model bee garden planted too. Thursday 12th September 6.00pm Please contact Dave Spice - The dinner starts 6.30pm and his bank […]
Beginners Beekeeping course - 1 day - Saturday 14th September 9am-3pm Please bring your lunch and some water to drink. Tea and coffee provided. If you have a battery drill with a square drive, and a hammer - please bring them along. Contact Person - Jeff Robinson - email - alpinebee@gmail.com His Phone number […]
$100 for members and $145 for non members. Are you an amateur beekeeper looking to take your hive management to the next level? Raising your own queens is the key to stronger, more productive colonies—and we’re here to show you how! Will use traditional brush grafting and show other methods. Kit provided for participants to […]
Bees and other pollinators, such as butterflies, bats and hummingbirds, are increasingly under threat from human activities. Pollination is, however, a fundamental process for the survival of our ecosystems. Nearly 90% of the world’s wild flowering plant species depend, entirely, or at least in part, on animal pollination, along with more than 75% of the […]
This annual education campaign, run by Apiculture New Zealand, is all about sharing with New Zealanders some basic things everyone can do to help improve bee health. We want to encourage Kiwis to plant more trees for bees, to use garden sprays safely, or not at all, and to buy local honey. Every year we […]
The club will be running a stall at the Riccarton Rotary Market.We need members to help set up the display and talk with the public about how we can support bee survival. If you’re able to help, please contact Jeff Gibson – 027 240 8179.
The club will be hosting a Queen Rearing Course on Saturday, 21 February, starting at 9:30 am, held at the club. Jeff will be running the course and will cover how to graft your own queens. Queen rearing can be one of the most rewarding skills in beekeeping — and if you do well, you […]
A powerful tool in the fight against AFB is education. Our training courses inform beekeepers of their legal obligations and equip them to identify AFB and eliminate it from their beekeeping operations using best practice methods. Courses cover everything beekeepers need to know from disease identification to the destruction of AFB-infected equipment. https://www.nzbb.org.nz/courses/p/christchurchfeb2026
Honey Show The Honey Show will be held at the Club Site on Sat April 11th 2026, so do come along and enter your hive products. All members, novice and experienced, can participate in the Honey Show. Follow the rules posted, to be in to win one of the two Club Shields -the Novice or […]
Christchurch Hobbyist Bee Club – Club Dinner The Christchurch Hobbyist Bee Club invites members to join us for a special evening of fine dining and good company. This will be a great opportunity to catch up with fellow members and enjoy a relaxed evening together. Event Details Date: Thursday 16 April 2026Location: Ara Restaurant160 Madras […]
