What You Can Expect From Us
Our facility in Sutherland has evolved over many decades. Our members often met at an informal location before the apiary and bee garden was opened in 1981. In 1988 the Sutherland Bee Museum and Information Centre was built and this is still the building where we meet and share information. When you visit our facility in Sutherland, you will enjoy many different aspects of our association including the following list.
Apiary
Our members and guests enjoy a hands-on experience with bees in hives. Full protective gear including beekeepers suits for adults and children, gloves and veils are all available for loan when visiting our apiary.
Club House
Our hexagonal clubhouse seats up to 95 people and features an audiovisual system with a large screen projector, tea coffee and catering equipment, beekeeping memorabilia, and disabled restrooms.
Honey House
Renovated in 2018, our specially designed honey house is fitted with honey extraction and processing equipment and is available to our members.
Beekeepers Shop
Items for sale in our shop include beekeeping clothing, tools, wax sheets, books and local raw honey. EFTPOS facilities are available for your convenience.
Honey Bees & Native Bees
Along with our honey bee hives, we also house several native bee hives and shelters for both social and solitary bee species. Our beehives include traditional Langstroth hives, flow hives, top bar hives and an observation beehive with easy access glass walls.
Bee Garden
Our garden includes native trees and flowering plants all designed to supply foraging bees plenty of nectar and pollen.
Beekeepers Library
We have a vast selection of beekeeping books, journals, and DVD’s available on loan to our members.
Support
Our members are encouraged to share information and skills with others. So if you attend our meetings, you are likely to learn from others and share in the beekeeping world.
If the bee population suddenly died out, humans would have only 4 years to live.
The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.
Tart words make no friends; a spoonful or honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar.