It's always nice to get a pat on the back
and we're really chuffed to be featured in
The Slow Guide To Melbourne by Martin
Hughes and Simone Egger who also
wrote two editions of the Lonely Planet
Guide To Melbourne. details
Canberra Protest
Some things just can't afford to wait. With the Australian apiary industry and ultimately all other food industries that rely on bees, under threat from an incursion of Asian Honey Bee Java Strain (which is a varroa host), it was time to join the respectful protest outside parliament house to try and get the decision to stop the funding into it's eradication reversed.
Bee keepers from all over Australia converged on Canberra in the dark hours of early morning to set up tables and displays with honey, fruit and veg in an effort to show what would be affected should the Asian Honey Bee be allowed to take over.
Led by Jodie Goldsworthy from Beechworth Honey a breakfast was also laid on inside parliament house so that politicians arriving for the day could discuss the issue with bee-keepers and experts on the matter including Max Whitten. details
Video/Radio Stories
Channel 9 'Talk to the Animals' program - July 2010
ABC TV Statewide program - February 2010
Wintering at CERES, Youtube - April 2001
ABC Radio 774 Richard Stubbs Program - 2010
Newspaper/Magazine Articles
The Age Melbourne Magazine - May 2009
The Age Epicure - 1 December 2009
The Age Epicure - 1 December 2009
Maribyrnong Leader - 9 February 2010
Star Newspaper - 31 August 2010
Maribyrnong Leader - 7 September 2010
The Age Epicure - 22 March 2011
The Big Issue - No 376 March 2011
maribyrnong-leader.whereilive.com.au - April 2011
maribyrnongweekly.com.au - May 2011
centurion-magazine.com - June 2011
Australian Horticulturre - July 2011
maribyrnongleader.com.au - August 2011
starnewsgroup.com.au - August 2011
brimbank-leader.com.au - September 2011
apinews.com/es - September 2011
Informative Links
The Bee-friendly Beekeeper
A Sustainable approach by David Heaf
read Lyndon's review
In 2008 Dutch artists Wietske Maas travelled from
The Netherlands to Melbourne to use our local honey
in her art exhibition here at the VCA. details
Bees in the City , a book by Alison Benjamin and Brian McCallum.
VERN SMITH CYCLES
65 Ballarat Road
Maidstone VIC 3012
(03) 9318 1880
PS BIKES
5/201 Hyde Street
Yarraville VIC 3013
(03) 9687 7042
www.psbikes.com.au
MINUTEMAN PRESS FOOTSCRAY
44 Buckley Street Footscray VIC 3011
(03) 9687 3026
www.minutemanpressfootscray.com.au
SWOOP DESIGN (since moved)
10 Scott St Macedon Vic 3440
(03) 5426 4004
studio@swoopdesign.com.au
BEE SUSTAINABLE
500 Lygon Street
Brunswick East, Victoria 3057
info@beesustainable.com.au
www.beesustainable.com.au
:) Thanks to Tahnia Trussler for providing the shots for this site
With the help of local bicycle groups Brimbank Bug and Yarra Bug and other local volunteer cyclists we were able to get the riders we needed to pedal our fleet of cargo bikes laden with bees to the newly opened Quang Minh site in time for the start of the season. Despite a rainy first day of Spring there were still smiles from our volunteer riders.Thanks to Yarra Bug radio on 3CR for putting out the call.
Local bike shop Vern Smith Cycles who made our bicycle rickshaw (or bee cab as we like to call it) gave over his store for the morning as riders from all over melbourne converged for a spot of brekkie before pedalling off in convoy shifting half a million bees to a new site at a Buddhist Temple. A last minute shortfall in transport was taken care of by Peter Santos from Christiana Bikes who lent 3 of his cargo bikes for the day.
Protest outside parliament house Canberra.
'Bees in the City', a book by Alison Benjamin and Brian McCallum.