Club day

Club 681 Cashmere Road, Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand

Happy New Year! This Saturday we will be focusing on how to make the best of your honey harvest and all that extracting  honey entails. What makes a great honey harvest? How bees make honey? We will be covering:  what you can do to protect your bees against wasps, how important a good source of water […]

Working Bee

Club 681 Cashmere Road, Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand

So what needs doing? Can you spend an hour or so helping out to do just one of these tasks? I know you want to help so here’s our dream list to get done: Hoeing the gardens.. Keep those weeds down Staking up trees Helping with framing and prep for pathway Tidying/cutting up and moving […]

Club day

Club 681 Cashmere Road, Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand

9.30 we will be offering a NUC for our fundraising raffle, tickets are $2.00 each. (Offered to registered beekeepers of course). So, Sat is for you to bring along your questions, queries and $2.00 coins of course. We will be demonstrating how to make oxalic strips -: Making oxalic acid strips from a pack- hiveworld […]

1-day beginners’ course

Club 681 Cashmere Road, Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand

Another 1-day beginners' course will be run in the new year on Saturday 18th February starting 08:30am and finishing 04:30pm at the club site, at the cost of $50.00 for club members and $95.00 for non-club members. To register your interest please contact either Gordon N or Jeff R, whose details are listed on the committee […]

$50

Club day

Club 681 Cashmere Road, Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand

9.30 am Saturday 4th March 2023 Field Day Timetable This Saturday is Gadget Day. The best Gadget will be judged -by Brian Pilley from Beeline  he will award prizes for 1st, ($50.00 voucher) 2nd, ($35.00 voucher) and 3rd, ($25.00 voucher). Brian is up this weekend so please send him your order by the cut off […]

Club day

Club 681 Cashmere Road, Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand

At 9.30 there will be a practical session where you will get to learn about how to select, take out, and clean up old frames. We will answer questions and demonstrate methods for what you can do with the waste wax, honey, pollen or nectar. We aim to cover these topics and to answer your questions […]

Christchurch Hobbyist Beekeepers Honey Show

Club 681 Cashmere Road, Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand

The 2023 Honey Show will be held at the Club Site on Sat May 6th 2023, 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 2023 Novice or […]

Beginners Course Part 1

Club 681 Cashmere Road, Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand

2 day Beginners’ Beekeeping Course 22 July & 9 Sept 2023 - 9:00  - 4:00 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 to grow Diseases and downsides Part […]

$50

Field Day

Club 681 Cashmere Road, Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand

We will meet wet or dry.

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