Advanced Beekeeping and Varroa mite management with Doug Purdie
We are offering a half-day advanced beekeeping course. The aim is for participants to gain a better knowledge of European honeybees and the methods of keeping them in an urban environment and build on their existing experience.
We will cover Varroa Destructor management as a major part of the course along with the topics we have traditionally covered.
Course Location:
Randwick Sustainability Hub - Meeting room 27 Munda St RANDWICK 2031
The course will cover advanced topics such as:
- Queen locating techniques
- Marking Queens
- Managing Varroa mite including how to develop a 12 month treatment plan
- Dealing with cross-combed hives
- Swarm prevention
- Why requeen and how do you do it
- Splitting hives and joining hives
- Moving hives
- Dealing with grumpy bees
For information about other courses visit http://www.thebeevangelist.com.au
About Doug:
Doug became a beekeeper after selling a neighbour’s honey at his local farmers’ market as a community fundraiser. Realising all he knew about bees was that honey was great on crumpets, he was horrified to learn about the issues bees face worldwide. It inspired him to do more research, and then to do his bit to educate people about the importance of pollinators - and to spread the word about what a pickle we’d be in without them.
He started The Urban Beehive with business partner Vicky Brown in 2010 and their first hive was installed later that year at a hotel in Sydney’s CBD. The business now has over 100 hives across Sydney from the Royal Botanic Gardens to the airport, producing bespoke honey for all sorts of clients, from corner cafes and five-star restaurants to airlines, runs courses in Centennial parklands and operates the only city based beekeeping shop. Doug has moved on from The Urban Beehive and is continuing his Bee Evangelist work running education courses.
Doug is the author of two books: Backyard Bees, a best-selling beginner’s guide to beekeeping published in 2014; and his most recent book, The Bee Friendly Garden, which aims to encourage all Australians to provide for our beneficial insects by planting flowering plants and using less insecticides in their garden. He has served as president of the NSW Amateur beekeepers association and is a founding member of the Sydney city branch , served on the NSW DPI biosecurity panel, and was the beekeeping consultant on the ABC TV catalyst program The great Australian bee challenge.
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