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Patrick Dawkins
May 31, 20232 min read
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
Patrick Dawkins
May 2, 20232 min read
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, 20232 min read
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, 20234 min read
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, 20233 min read
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, 20222 min read
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, 20225 min read
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, 20223 min read
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, 20223 min read
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, 20223 min read
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, 20223 min read
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, 20223 min read
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, 20223 min read
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, 20224 min read
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, 20224 min read
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, 20224 min read
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, 20223 min read
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, 20213 min read
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, 20213 min read
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, 20213 min read
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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