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The Beehives at the DCC

Upcoming Workshops:

Program No. Program Name Day of week and time Room location Start Date End Date Instructor Cost
293102 DIY Beeswax Candles & Lip Balms Wed, 7:00 PM, 1h30m Multi-Purpose Room 202 Dec 2 Dec 2 Hives For Humanity $10.00
293156 Magic of Honey from the Honey Bee – Online Mon, 7:00 PM, 1h30m Online Nov 16 Nov 16 Hives For Humanity $0

Sept. 20, 2020

Hello all,

I just wanted to give a special thanks to Simon and Thomas from Horizon Ecobuilders (https://www.horizonecobuilders.ca).  Thank you so much for organizing and putting the rain roof workshop together.  Everything was so well planned and prepared that it made the assembly very easy.
Thank  you also to all the community members who came out to help.  The positive manner in which everyone worked together made the event a time of great connectivity.  It is so fantastic to see the lovely new rain roofs on the DCC Apiary Beehives.  Thank you all again.
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Best,
Diane

September 4, 2020

Hives Roof Building Workshop – September 19, at 2pm
The Dunbar Beekeeping Club and Horizons Ecobuilders are hosting a workshop to build hives roofs.  We Tools and materials will be provided.  Participants will leave with a hive roof that will keep the entrance dry during the rainy months and will help build four roofs for our Dunbar Apiary.  Spots are extremely limited.  Please email dunbarbeekeepers@gmail.com if you would like to register.  

The bees continue to bring us together, into circles of connection and communities of care, and give us a chance to think about our relationships with the land and each other.

  • Wonder of the Honey Bee – general interest, online workshop facilitated by Sarah on May 26th, 2020
  • Queen Rearing – intermediate experience, online workshop facilitated by Sarah on May 28th, 2020 and featuring our beekeepers Leslie Williams and Phil Laflamme
  • Varroa Management – intermediate experience, online workshop facilitated by Sarah on June 11th, 2020 and featuring our beekeepers Leslie Williams and Phil Laflamme

These videos can also be found on the Hives for Humanity site here:  https://www.hivesforhumanity.com/workshops

May 30, 2020

A Message from Hives for Humanity:

Hello All!
Thank you for those who attended our event online last night, for your questions and presence, and for your patience with a few tech issues (our Zoom account says we can have 100 people but we were unable to add people after 50 last night).
For any of you who signed up but did not make it into the call, our apologies for that: we are learning as we go on this platform. We have two offers to make up for that error:
1) Here is the recorded workshop – we will post it in our socials soon, please feel free to share it, and a note that it is unedited! The password to access is: 8R!2Y$1& 
2) We have scheduled another “Wonder of the Honey Bee” online for those that were not able to access last night’s zoom event. The online workshop will be held on June 2nd at 6pm. At this time we ask that only the people that were not able to access the live event last night register for the second workshop. Please register here.
Thanks all!

May 20, 2020

Hello all,

The Dunbar Community Centre, the DCC Beekeeping Club and Hives for Humanity would like to invite you to two online zoom pollinator workshops.  All ages welcome to the first workshop, but the second of these is targeted to children (ages 6-12) and takes place during school hours.

1) Wonder of the Honey Bee: https://hives4humanity_intro2bees.eventbrite.com**

Tue, May 26, 2020
6:00 PM – 7:00 PM PDT
**THIS NEIGHBOURHOOD SMALL GRANT PROJECT WAS FUNDED BY THE VANCOUVER FOUNDATION AND ADMINISTERED BY KITSILANO NEIGHBOURHOOD HOUSE.
WWW.NEIGHBOURHOODSMALLGRANTS.CA
2) Pollinator Plants and Bees Knees: https://hives4humanity_pollinatorplants.eventbrite.com

Wed, June 3, 2020

10:00 AM – 11:00 AM PDT

 

 

Greetings Dunbar,

Spring has arrived and the bees are buzzing. All four of the community centre hives made it through the winter. We have had an amazing spring for blossoms and this shows in the health and honey production of our hives.  In the next weeks, you will notice the introduction of honey supers on each hive. These are shallower boxes that go above the deeper boxes used for brood rearing.

If you have questions or comments or would like to help or learn more about beekeeping, reach out to dunbarbeekeepers@gmail.com

Till next time, Diane

Our bees busy at work and clearly not needing to social distance!

A comparison between the European honey bee (right) and a native bee (left).
Shadows of flying honey bees seen in black.

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