March Bee Group meeting - Change of Speaker - Now Don Muir from B-Trace

This event will be held in person with an option to attend online. If you are planning to attend online, please see below to purchase a free ticket. 

Please note change of Speaker for our March Meeting

Speaker - Don Muir - B-Trace

B-QUAL, as the industry owned QA and Food Safety program, has been asked by various stakeholders to implement a low-cost program that offers small producers assistance with their record keeping obligations, and to give consumers confidence in their products and product traceability.

Consumers and Government departments are increasingly becoming aware of where food comes from and how it is produced. It is recognised in the honey industry that quality standards, in relation to food safety are demanded by customers, and governments. 

B-TRACE is designed for smaller enterprises to maintain readily available hive record information that satisfies the requirements of the National Biosecurity Code of Practice, including Extracting and Product records that are also required by legislation. A specially designed hive management web app has been developed to assist members with this record keeping.  The B-TRACE program is intended for small semi commercial and recreational beekeepers who sell to:

• Farmers Markets
• Direct to consumers
• Food stalls
• Boutique shops, such as Bakeries, Fruit and Vegetable, Delicatessens, Restaurants and similar
• Or, any other outlets

If attending in person please do not attend if you are unwell or experiencing any cold or flue like symptoms; have been a close contact of someone with COVID-19; or are isolating. 

Meetings are held at ECOSS, 711 Old Warburton Road, Wesburn, in the ‘Coop’ (past the old house, over the green, down the bottom). Everyone is welcome - gold coin donation appreciated.

Attending online

If you are planning on attending online, please see below to purchase a free ticket. The day before you will be sent a zoom link to join. 

**Registrations for online tickets close Saturday 26th March at 2pm. If, after this time, you've missed out please email yarravalleybeegroup@mail.tidyhq.com