1:30 - What's Hapening in my Hive?

Followed by main meeting 

Wild Honey:  Caring for Bees in a Divided Land  -  Movie & Discussion.  

For more than a century, the island of Timor has been divided by a colonial border, which has displaced and separated the people of Lookeu, dividing their land, water & history.  This film is the outcome of a long-term collaboration between these researchers and the people of Lookeu in Timor.

Associate Professor Lisa Palmer teaches and researches on indigenous environmental knowledge and focuses on south-east Asia and indigenous Australia and this is her first film.  

Dr Balthasar Kehi is a researcher who lives in Melbourne and returns whenever he can to his homeland of Lookeu.

Come along and keep up to date with local conditions that effect your hive, connect with other beekeepers, share resources, improve your apiary skills and learn more about honeybee ecology.

Monthly meetings are usually the last Sunday of the month...

Ecotopia Earth Festival- Community Sustainability Festival

Save the Date!  Sunday March 29th, 10am-4pm Yarra Junction Parklands.

Prepare yourself for a plethora of great entertainment! All Free, All Accessible and Inclusive!

YVBG will be holding a stall at this festival and would love your help to man it. Dont worry if you are new bee keeper, there will be others with you. If you are interested in volunteering, please email us.

1:30 - What's Hapening in my Hive?

Followed by main meeting 

Come along and keep up to date with local conditions that effect your hive, connect with other beekeepers, share resources, improve your apiary skills and learn more about honeybee ecology.

Monthly meetings are usually the last Sunday of the month.

Meetings are held at ECOSS, 711 Old Warburton Road, Wesburn, in the newly renovated ‘Coop’ (past the old house, over the green, down the bottom).

1:30 - What's Hapening in my Hive?

Followed by main meeting 

Come along and keep up to date with local conditions that effect your hive, connect with other beekeepers, share resources, improve your apiary skills and learn more about honeybee ecology.

Monthly meetings are usually the last Sunday of the month.

Meetings are held at ECOSS, 711 Old Warburton Road, Wesburn, in the newly renovated ‘Coop’ (past the old house, over the green, down the bottom).

1:30 - What's Hapening in my Hive?

Followed by main meeting 

Come along and keep up to date with local conditions that effect your hive, connect with other beekeepers, share resources, improve your apiary skills and learn more about honeybee ecology.

Monthly meetings are usually the last Sunday of the month.

Meetings are held at ECOSS, 711 Old Warburton Road, Wesburn, in the newly renovated ‘Coop’ (past the old house, over the green, down the bottom).

1:30 - What's Hapening in my Hive?

Followed by main meeting 

Come along and keep up to date with local conditions that effect your hive, connect with other beekeepers, share resources, improve your apiary skills and learn more about honeybee ecology.

Monthly meetings are usually the last Sunday of the month.

Meetings are held at ECOSS, 711 Old Warburton Road, Wesburn, in the newly renovated ‘Coop’ (past the old house, over the green, down the bottom).

1:30 - What's Hapening in my Hive?

Followed by main meeting 

Come along and keep up to date with local conditions that effect your hive, connect with other beekeepers, share resources, improve your apiary skills and learn more about honeybee ecology.

Monthly meetings are usually the last Sunday of the month.

Meetings are held at ECOSS, 711 Old Warburton Road, Wesburn, in the newly renovated ‘Coop’ (past the old house, over the green, down the bottom).

1:30 - What's Hapening in my Hive?

Followed by main meeting 

Come along and keep up to date with local conditions that effect your hive, connect with other beekeepers, share resources, improve your apiary skills and learn more about honeybee ecology.

Monthly meetings are usually the last Sunday of the month.

Meetings are held at ECOSS, 711 Old Warburton Road, Wesburn, in the newly renovated ‘Coop’ (past the old house, over the green, down the bottom).

1:30 - What's Hapening in my Hive?

Followed by main meeting 

Come along and keep up to date with local conditions that effect your hive, connect with other beekeepers, share resources, improve your apiary skills and learn more about honeybee ecology.

Monthly meetings are usually the last Sunday of the month.

Meetings are held at ECOSS, 711 Old Warburton Road, Wesburn, in the newly renovated ‘Coop’ (past the old house, over the green, down the bottom).

1:30 - What's Hapening in my Hive?

Followed by main meeting 

Come along and keep up to date with local conditions that effect your hive, connect with other beekeepers, share resources, improve your apiary skills and learn more about honeybee ecology.

Monthly meetings are usually the last Sunday of the month.

Meetings are held at ECOSS, 711 Old Warburton Road, Wesburn, in the newly renovated ‘Coop’ (past the old house, over the green, down the bottom).

1:30 - What's Hapening in my Hive?

Followed by main meeting 

Beekeeping Then and Now

Ian Brown started beekeeping in England and continued with his beekeeping when he arrived in Australia in 1964.  He was a commercial beekeeper with around 100 hives in the early days and is now a back-yard beekeeper with three hives.  

He has seen many changes, but many things have stayed the same, so in this presentation he will be covering a number of aspects of beekeeping, including sharing some of his ideas.

Come along and keep up to date with local conditions that effect your hive, connect with other beekeepers, share resources, improve your apiary skills and learn more about honeybee ecology.

Monthly meetings are usually the last Sunday of the month.

Meetings are held at ECOSS, 711 Old Warburton Road, Wesburn, in the newly renovated ‘Coop’ (past the old house, over the green, down the bottom).

Welcome to 2020. Our first meeting of the year will be held Sunday 26th January. 

1:30 - What's Hapening in my Hive?

Followed by main meeting 

Come along and keep up to date with local conditions that effect your hive, connect with other beekeepers, share resources, improve your apiary skills and learn more about honeybee ecology.

Monthly meetings are usually the last Sunday of the month.

Meetings are held at ECOSS, 711 Old Warburton Road, Wesburn, in the newly renovated ‘Coop’ (past the old house, over the green, down the bottom).

1:30 - What's Happening in my Hive?

Followed by main meeting

Making your own Mead - Phil Godman

We will have a short session on how to begin making your own Mead. You can make this ancient honey-based drink  at home. There are many recipes & variations to suit your own personal tastes. We will focus on how to make it work using common household items & recycling, without having to spend much money on equipment. Get a bottle ready for the 2020 Lilydale Show Competition! If you have your own favourite tried-and-true recipes, please bring them along to share and if you have samples of previous brews, feel free to bring them along too!

As this is our last meeting for the year we will be having a little festive fun. Please BYO plate of something you'd like to share for a late lunch/afternoon tea Christmas celebration.

Come along and keep up to date with local conditions that effect your hive, connect with other beekeepers, share resources, improve your apiary skills and le...

1:30 - What's Happening in my Hive?

Followed by main meeting

Bee Friendly Gardens - How do you go about increasing the bee forage opportunities in your own garden or landscape? Inspired by attending the Yarra Valley Bee Group meetings, local landscape designer Jane Stormer is keen to get a hive and has learnt that to have happy bees, you need to design and plant out your garden in particular ways. The CSIRO has done an extensive Australia wide report on what to plant in what regions to increase honey yields and bee populations. This talk focusses on the opportunities in cool temperate climates and her hope is to draw you out to share your local observations and learnings in your own garden/landscape.

Come along and keep up to date with local conditions that effect your hive, connect with other beekeepers, share resources, improve your apiary skills and learn more about honeybee ecology.

Monthly meetings are usually the last Sunday of the month.

Meetings are held at EC...

Honey Competition

Click here to find out all about the honey competition. (run in conjunction with our YVbee group)

Volunteers needed to man our Honey Stall

We will also have a stall at the show so we'll bee looking for volunteers. email yvbeegroup@gmail.com if you're interested.

Visit their Website to find out whats on this year

ANIMALS

    Horse Events all weekend on No. 2 Oval

    Sheep Competitions and Sheering, Saturday in the David Wilkinson Pavilion

    Poultry Competition , Saturday in the Chandler Pavilion

    Alpacas - Young Handlers, Sunday in Chandler Pavilion

    Yarra Valley Young Farmers, Sunday

    Dairy Goat Display, Sunday

    Animal Nursey all weekend in Melba Park

    Reptile Display all weekend in Melba Park

    Dog Obedience and Dog Agility Display, Saturday on the Main Arena

    Dog Flyball Competition, Sunday on the Main Arena

    Donkey Display and Rides all weekend in Melba Park

    Sheep Dog Trial...