by Liz Oconnelll | Nov 12, 2022 | Australian Pollinator Week 2022, Awareness, Event
“Come and say hi to us at the Boroondara Sustainable Living Festival to celebrate Australian Pollinator Week and join in fun activities that are all about bees and other pollinators”. For more information see our events page here. 
by Liz Oconnelll | Mar 3, 2023 | Featured Front Page, Melbourne Flower and Garden Show
Join Rotarians for Bees and Wheen Bee Foundation on 29th March to 2nd April at the Royal Exhibition Building & Carlton Gardens. Updates from us, coming soon!` For more information click here. 
by Liz Oconnelll | Nov 8, 2022 | General Interest, Past Event
At the invitation of Donna Martin (current President of Rotary Club of Bacchus Marsh and Co-Chair of Environment/Sustainability for District 9800), Rotarians for BEES were delighted to participate in the annual Bacchus Marsh Flower and Garden Show. The... 
by Liz Oconnelll | Nov 8, 2022 | Education, General Interest
It is amazing how one of the smallest creatures can influence the behaviour of one of the largest!The Elephants and Bees Project ( https://elephantsandbees.com ) is an innovative and award-winning research project using an understanding of elephant behaviour to reduce... 
by admin | Oct 9, 2022 | Education, Planting for Bees
A recent weekend working “bee” has transformed a much loved but rather overgrown garden into a potential haven for bees. Our garden at the rear of Kew Rotary Club’s Fair-Trade shop has had a bee friendly make-over. Twenty volunteers from GlaxoSmithKline,... 
by admin | Oct 1, 2022 | Awareness, General Interest
Bees play such a huge role in our ecosystem but their numbers are dwindling at an alarming rate. Planting a bee friendly garden, or even a few plants, is a great way to encourage growth in our vital bee population. Julie Armstrong (Founder – ACT for Bees) speaks to... 
by admin | Aug 16, 2022 | Awareness, Education, Pollination, Village of Hall, World Bee Day 2022
Bee Friendly Garden Signs in the village of Hall. The Village of Hall is only a short, thirteen minute drive from the centre of Canberra but as we turn off from the busy Burton Highway and into the main street, it might as well be light years away.... 
by admin | Aug 9, 2022 | World Bee Day 2022
Belgian Embassy opens gates to Bee Fair. In December 2017, the UN approved Slovenia’s proposal to proclaim 20 May as World Bee Day, so what better place to celebrate this international event than in Canberra and ACT? John fitting in well at the Bee Fair.... 
by admin | Aug 2, 2022 | Education, Pollination, Village of Hall
(Insert image here) Hall Village is a small township of about 100 households in the north of the Australian Capital Territory, Australia. Officially proclaimed in 1882, Hall Village represents a small rural service centre associated with the pastoral use of the area... 
by admin | Jul 26, 2022 | Victorian Schools Garden Programme
This year the VSGP Grants program received over 395 grant entries from 185 schools across the state of Victoria. It is inspiring to see so many school wanting to undertake student lead garden projects in their school yards. In many applications, the VSGP...