Website Password
The password to the members-only side of our website [1] has been changed for this year as it always does after our Annual General Meeting. The new password was circulated in April’s Beeline. Connect with us [2] if you can’t find it.
Hive Registration and RE-Registration
As you know, it is a legislated requirement that anyone keeping bees in B.C. and the apiary locations where bees are kept must be registered with the provincial government. Also, anyone who has not RE-registered their hive locations since June 2022 must do so again. The new process requires that each apiary location have a Premises ID.
This is not a Big Brother issue; it is directed at supporting and protecting apiaries and apiarists. For example, this information allows the government and enables them to contact beekeepers with hives in proximity to disease outbreaks. I wouldn’t necessarily know that there was another apiary 3 km from me, let alone know it got hit with AFB…
The online registration tool can be found here [3]. If you don’t want to laboriously copy this URL, I found it by Googling (that’s now a real verb!) “Registering beehives in BC [4]“.
Small Groups
Small groups are restarting! We will be holding them monthly June through August in addition to our regular club meetings. They have been very popular in the past; informal gatherings for casual conversation, getting questions or concerns discussed (and hopefully answered), and networking with other beekeepers in your area. We have them organized geographically:
- Victoria/Oak Bay – Carolyn H
- Vic West, Esquimalt, View Royal – Laure N
- Langford, Colwood, Metchosin, Sooke – Werner G
- Saanich, Gordon Head – Norman D
- Central/North Saanich, Sidney – Lucas D
If you would like to participate in these, please email president@capitalregionbeekeepers.ca [5] and in that email include your name (email addresses can be pretty opaque) AND which group you wish to join!
Looking forward to seeing you at the meeting on Thursday!