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June/July 2018 Includes: Conference Report Annual Contest Results Honey Cake Recipe THE AMATEUR BEEKEEPER Newsletter for members June/July 2018 Includes: Conference report Annual contest results Honey cake recipe Photo contest entry from Sydney Club “As busy as bees” June/July Issue Contents 3 Conference moments 4 Raffle winners 5 Meet the new president 6 Win a painted hive 7 Col Pulling results 8 Judges remarks 9 Photos. New executive team 10 Honey cake recipe 12 Cards, councils and currency 13 Buckets. FAQ insurance 14 Manuka. Honey giveaway 15 Member news 16 Rumours and ruined hives 17 DIY Sugar shake funnel 2 THE AMATEUR BEEKEEPER JUNE JULY 2018 ABA CONFERENCE Celebrating the beekeepers’ weekend BEEKEEPERS FROM across the state gathered on the Central Coast over May 18 to 20 to learn, to meet up, to compete and to discover more about the world of beekeeping in 2018. And the verdict is in! The ABA’s first ever weekend event – involving a conference, dinner, AGM, interclub contest, field day and trade show – has been declared an outstanding success. Here are just a sample of moments that capture a little of the special atmosphere: honey is the best tasting in the state’ brag • The veritable swarm of beekeepers lining contest which ran throughout the day. (Yet he up to get into the Friday-night movie night still kept everything running to time) showing of More Than Honey. As they patiently • A capacity room, a sunny day and aircon work- waited to register, they bought up big on raffle ing to the max. (It’s all about the atmosphere!) tickets and organisers quickly set out row • “Bees or bingo? Bees or bingo?” The quick- after row of extra chairs est way vollies made sure club visitors were • Red teeshirted volunteers putting the final directed to the right part of the venue touches to a mountain of calico conference • And , of course, all the presenters who shared bags ready to hand out – and then the justa little of their wisdom and experience, buzz when attendees discovered just what showing how much we know and how much was inside each one there still is too learn about the one incredible • Costa injecting infectious energy with his creature that brings us all together early AM presentation, then spending the day mixing with everyone, answering questions, The ABA thanks all who contributed especially: posing for photos and finally donning a bee Central Coast Beekeepers suit onesy to buzz the room at the end of NSW Governor David Hurley proceedings. Oh, and no one could forget his Costa Georgiadis impassioned manifesto for the bees! Stuart Anderson • Governor David Hurley addressing the Dr Mark Greco conference with enchanting words about his Thank you Dr Emily Remnant beekeeping experiences – and then taking the Des Cannon microphone back during the next everyone! Dr Romina Radar presenter’s Q&A session to note that he had Prof Simon Haberle meant to declare the conference open! ABC’s Scott Levi NSW DPI • Eleven clubs’ best examples of honey, frames, Nuplas wax, and cake on display, proving just how ABC Magazines much care and pride (and rivalry) recreational TheAustralasian Beekeeper beekeepers have for what they do Keeper and Hive • Tales of dramas getting club display frames Richgro and honey cakes to the venue, and the ones Eco Organics that disasterously ‘got away’ The Urban Beehive • MC-for-the-day Scott Levi’s impromptu ‘Our . and the entire volunteer team 3 THE AMATEUR BEEKEEPER JUNE JULY 2018 CONFERENCE Raffle winning beekeepers With an array of fabulous prizes generously donated by NSW bee-related businesses, ABA conference and dinner attendees raised $3680 for Coast Shelter, an established Central Coast Sydney branch’s Yvonne Riznyczok was thrilled to win the ready assembled Flow Hive donated by conference presenter charity that works with and co-inventor Stuart Anderson. Yvonne is pictured here with people across the region to her “willing apprentice Zac and the beautiful Flow Hive Classic!” restore hope to those in need The ABA thanks everyone involved in our raffle and A brand-new member of contests, including donors Shoalhaven Beekeepers, Lisa Munn won a who provided the much ventilated suit from coveted prizes, valued at Hornsby Beekeeping Supplies. LIsa asked Atif over $2500: at HBS if she could swap • Flow it for a mini-sized suit so her daughter Juliet • Lyson (3) “can join us in the • The Urban Beehive magical world of bees,” explains Lisa. “And she • Nuplas is buzzing!” • Hornsby Beekeeping Supplies Charles and Julia Watkins are planning a garden fit for • Green Harvest a bevy of bees, thanks to Central Coast nursery • Sustainable Natives Sustainable Natives’ tray of plants to create a pollina- tor friendly environment • Keeper and Hive • Eco Organic Garden • Oz Armour 4 THE AMATEUR BEEKEEPER JUNE JULY 2018 2018 EXECUTIVE Meet Len Verrenkamp the coast that October/November. I won’t say we were caught short. However quite a few evenings were spent making boxes and frames as the bees were filling boxes left, right and centre. We now knew what a real honey flow was. During this time we attended almost every local gathering of beekeepers we could find, entered some honey in the Central Coast club’s honey competition at the Gosford show (for a couple of second places), completed the Royal Agricultural Society (RAS) honey judging course with our wives (who with science and engineering backgrounds were now quite intrigued My beekeeping story: from newbee with the honey side of things). Then someone by the name of Bruce White mentioned entering the RAS to ABA president in five years National Honey Competition. BEEKEEPING BEGAN for me in 2013. In about April We prepared a number of entries, judged them our- that year long-time friend Max Rae mentioned getting selves first and then entered what we considered some bees for his property and my reply was, Yeah, I the best of our harvests. Four first prizes, including could be involved in that. best in show and supreme champion, at our first-ever attempt was just stunning to say the least and we’ve The first thing we did was attend the local bee club entered every year since, with continued success. meeting (Central Coast branch) to get an idea of what was involved and we probably left more confused At about the same time as the 2015 show success, the than anything. (Something along the lines of How is Central Coast Club (as with many clubs) was expe- a honey super and a brood box the same while also riencing a significant jump in visitor numbers each being different?) Waxing frames took on a whole meeting due to the success of the Flow Hive campaign new meaning to a once avid wood-turner, and we and a general rise of interest in beekeeping. I had a scratched our heads at the relative merits of a pack- quiet word with Max. We decided to nominate for age verses a nuc. president (myself) and secretary (Max) at the March 2015 AGM and we were elected unopposed. From Anyway, we determined four nucs was the way to there we established a new committee that met each start, ordered them from Greg Mulder, joined the ABA month to address the growing pains the club was Central Coast branch, arrived at the nearest bee- experiencing, introduced a monthly newsletter and keeping supplier with credit card primed, and started started a “beginning in bees session” for visitors every studying everything we could find on bees while at the meeting so they felt welcome and helped to learn the same time building all our gear. basics. On August 15 (early spring that year) the nucs were These initiatives made a huge difference to how the ready and Greg put them straight into our fresh new branch converted visitors into full members with, boxes. We did an inspection the following weekend at times, up to eight people joining on the spot each which was the first time either of us had handled meeting. Currently the Central Coast club has 156 bees. We looked at each other when we had finished members, up from 54 in March 2015, and is growing and said, Mmmmm, that wasn’t bad fun, think we need still. The support from the committee and members some more! willing to be involved in events has made the Central Coast branch what it is today. From there it kind of snowballed into buying a few established colonies, ordering queens, doing splits, Not long after becoming involved with the executive and in no time we had 15 colonies. Same again next side of the Central Coast club I attended my first ABA season and we had 20 producing colonies and 20 nucs combined AGM/council meeting hosted by the Par- ready to explode in the spring of 2015, which they did. ramatta club at James Ruse Agricultural High School. We had a great flowering of Grey (corky) Ironbark on This meeting was a bit of an eye opener as it was also 5 THE AMATEUR BEEKEEPER JUNE JULY 2018 the time when the online membership system was members and the public that weekend. floated to members, creating quite a bit of robust discussion. (I think it almost rivalled the infamous Myself, I view this event as a precursor to bigger and Colonel Pulling cake event at Ballina.) better things that can be provided by the ABA for its members. It’s not dissimilar to that moment when I I could see that this was a moment when the ABA was became involved in the Central Coast branch. We have about to experience some significant or even, dare I a moment in time right now.
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