Elouera Vale Camels & Bees

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Camels

We can tailor a visit to suit your conference needs, from a tour to a two day experience.

2 Day Camel Experience

Our Weekend Camel Experiences are only in small groups (around 8 participants) and hence can be easily tailored to suit your needs. We are willing to share our knowledge and provide ongoing support to those interested in the following:

General care and welfare, safety issues, understanding behaviour, drenching, specialised equipment, control methods, leading, sitting, saddling, loading and transportation.

$700 per person (not including accommodation)

What you get:

2 days interactive camel experience/awareness/skill development
We supply the camels for you to learn with and train
One-on-one interaction, we answer your questions
Personalised camel husbandry information and advice
Tip and traps in co-grazing camels
Forum for networking and cameleer community building
2 lunches, morning and afternoon teas

Farm Tours

Check out the Elouera Vale farm – creeks, bush, paddocks and stock.

This includes a stop over with the baby donkeys and camels for an introduction, feed and pat. Learn about our stock. Gain an appreciation especially for our donkeys and camels.

This is 1.5 hours of fun – energising and informative. Past visitors tell us the buggy tour around the farm is “worth every cent”.

Cost $60 per person

Bees

Elouera Vale has been working with bees for over 4 years. Lynne, Elouera Vale’s Beekeeper is enthusiastic about her work with bees. For her, beekeeping is fascinating and highly enjoyable, but also very important.

Lynne delights in watching her bees work. Then there’s the amazing crop of honey she harvests which she says ” is better than anything you’ll ever find at the store”. As well as watching her bees and enjoying eating honey, Lynne loves the learning involved. She learns from experienced beekeepers as well as recently participating in a Cert III in Beekeeping. The challenge of beekeeping brings some obvious rewards. But it is also an important contribution to our local ecosystem.

So why is beekeeping important? Bees are essential for pollinating plants and crops which in turn provides us with food. Around the world the number of honey bees is on the decline, so keeping bees is crucial to help increase the bee population. Beekeeping is also a skill that is becoming less popular and there seems to be a decline in the number of beekeepers around the world.

Starting right with Bees Field Day

Come join us for a relaxed day of beekeeeping at Elouera Vale, Mittagong, in the beautiful Southern Highlands and learn how to manage your hives productively to maintain optimum health and productivity of your hive.

This Field Day will be run by experienced beekeepers, Harvey and Denis, who will provide opportunity for hands on experience in all aspects of seasonal management. There will be plenty of opportunity to ask all the questions that have been bothering you and hear from the experts as they share their experience.

This Field Day is designed for people who are interested in keeping bees or already have a hive and are interested in developing a sound knowledge base. There will be a strong emphasis on the practical side of beekeeping weather permitting and a strong theoretical base to back it up.

Cost $200 per person

Some of the topics covered will include:

Types of hives – their structure and where to acquire them and the advantage of hone hive over another
Equipment needed to start up
Where to get bees and what to ask for
Preparing and lighting a smoker
Manipulation of the hive
Suiting up correctly
Brief outline of pests and diseases

Participants need to bring: