Fostering Beekeeper Collaboration
The Tairāwhiti Hub of ApiNZ has been hard at work bringing beekeepers together - BBQs, Zoom meets and, most recently, a well-attended field
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Patrick Dawkins
- May 2, 2023
- 2 min
Hawke’s Bay Beekeepers Gather Post-Cyclone
Two months on from Cyclone Gabrielle having its way with the east coast of the North Island, Beekeepers Hawke’s Bay have held their first...
Patrick Dawkins
- Apr 1, 2023
- 2 min
The Club Drilling Down on AFB with the Foster Test
At the Whanganui Beekeeping Club they have come up with a plan, by embracing new technology, to try get on top of AFB...
Chris Northcott
- Mar 4, 2023
- 4 min
Auckland Flooding Soaks Hives and Club HQ
Auckland Beekeeping Club President Steve Leslie took a break from attending hives on a rare cloudless morning to talk floods...
Patrick Dawkins
- Jan 31, 2023
- 3 min
Wellington’s Community Beekeeper
From long-time treasurer of the Wellington Beekeepers Association (WBA), to hives in some of our capital city’s most renown venues and...
Patrick Dawkins
- Dec 31, 2022
- 2 min
Christmas Promo Winner a Southland Club Good-Sort
There is a sense of karma at work in this Christmas' giveaway winner, with a major club contributor the benefactor of our promo prize...
Maggie James
- Dec 2, 2022
- 5 min
Empowering and Bee-Ing Part of a Strong, AFB Free, Dunedin Community
In Dunedin their exists a club working in harmony with the community, and helping reduce cases of reported AFB to zero in the last 6 months.
Patrick Dawkins
- Nov 3, 2022
- 3 min
Growing Fruitful Clubs
Frances Beech is down to two hives now – a standard Langstroth and a 30-frame long-bar – where there once was 20...
Patrick Dawkins
- Sep 2, 2022
- 3 min
Dedicated to Club and Craft
John Trevena is a man dedicated to improving beekeeping knowledge, & recently communicating with fellow beekeepers got profoundly easier...
Patrick Dawkins
- Aug 1, 2022
- 3 min
The Vastly Experienced Beekeeper Making Thames Club Click
With 45 years’ experience – and counting – as a commercial beekeeper, John Bassett has a wealth of knowledge to share and he is...
Patrick Dawkins
- Jul 3, 2022
- 3 min
AFB Detective’s Mystery Honey
Francis Proffit claimed top prize in the National Honey Awards club category for his “mystery” honey, but it's his work with AFB that...
Patrick Dawkins
- Jun 1, 2022
- 3 min
The Big Move
Given only a matter of weeks to move their hives and with it their club headquarters, the Auckland Beekeepers Club were left scrambling...
Patrick Dawkins
- May 1, 2022
- 3 min
Bees, Business, Family and now … the Club
Ensuring balance between family, his beekeeping business and the local bee club has been Nick Watkins' challenge since joining the club...
Patrick Dawkins
- Mar 31, 2022
- 4 min
Bees Keeping Olivia Young “In Every Way” at 89
At 90 years-of-age, how many beehives do you plan to keep? We catch up with an Auckland beekeeping stalwart still going strong at 89...
Patrick Dawkins
- Feb 27, 2022
- 4 min
Baking and Beekeeping in the Bay
In his 20s Graham Heaven got a glimpse of beekeeping and thought he might like it. Almost 50 years on he is finally pursuing that interest.
Patrick Dawkins
- Feb 2, 2022
- 4 min
Club Catch Up: Frank Lindsay, Wellington Beekeepers Association
A beekeeper would be hard pressed to have contributed more to their local club and the industry than Wellington's Frank Lindsay has...
Dave Black
- Jan 2, 2022
- 3 min
Club Catch-Up: Big BOP
Bay of Plenty beekeeper Dave Black gives an insight into their local beekeeping "Interest Group", including detailing some club innovations.
Patrick Dawkins
- Nov 30, 2021
- 3 min
No Pigeonholing Nelson’s Beekeepers
Apiarists come in all shapes and sizes, ages and stages of life, and the Nelson Beekeeping Club’s membership personifies that...
Patrick Dawkins
- Oct 30, 2021
- 3 min
Club Catch-Up: Locked-down, But Not Out
As Auckland moves towards three months of lockdown at level 3 or above, we check in with two of the biggest beekeeping clubs in the region t
Patrick Dawkins
- Aug 28, 2021
- 3 min
Big and Better
When it comes to the Franklin Beekeepers Club there is big membership base and a big area to cover, but now being better is the focus.
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