Local Hero
13 October 2021
Build Your Hive workshop
24 October 2021
At the club’s apiary on Sunday 17 October, we ran the first hands-on and face-to-face workshop for many months. Eleven new beekeepers attended and helped Steve and Gavin inspect the brood in three different types of hives: Langstroth, Warre and Top Bar.
As the workshop was drawing to a close, the Inner West Beekeepers received an alert about a bee swarm in a tree at the front of Ashfield Shopping Centre. While Gavin continued with the hive inspections, Steve, Donna and Dirk took the call and rushed ghost-buster like into action. As the local Ashfield residents looked on from a safe distance, the swarm was successfully rescued and put into a nuc (nuclues) hive.
All in all, a great introduction to the fun and games of being an urban beekeeper. Many thanks to club President Steve Higgins, Vice-President and biosecurity officer Gavin Smith and Secretary Peter Voysey for organising the workshop.