Next Club Meeting – Tuesday, Aug 15th
All About the NC State Fair – Entering your honey, wax items, art items, and honey recipes. Our club’s education booth. Tim Huffman and other club members.
This meeting will be held in-person at the Bennett Bunn Lodge as well as on Zoom. Check your August newsletter email for the Zoom link.
Future meetings
September 19- Winter Preparation- Dana Stahlman
October 17- TBA
Past meetings
2023
- January 17th, 2023 – Rick Coor (NCState Endowment) & Matt Booth (Hives for Heroes)
- February 21– Practical Advice about Equipment and Other Decisions for your Apiary
- March 21– Single Brood Box Technique for Honey Production- Keith McLaurin
- April 18th– Native Pollinating Plants for Your Yard- Betty Wagner, Master Gardener
- May 16– Extracting Honey – Tim Huffman
- June 20– Hive Monitoring 101 – Anya McGuirk
- July 18– The Shocking Truth About What Happens in Your Beehives During the Summer! – Jennifer Keller
2022
- December 13, 2022- End of Year Party!
- November 15 (virtual & in-person) Using a 3-Frame Queen Castle – George McAllister (watch on YouTube)
- October 18 (virtual & in-person) Beehive Monitoring Using Sensors – Theo Hartmann (watch on YouTube)
- September 20 (virtual & in-person) Bee Colonies as a Superorganism – Randall Austin (watch on YouTube)
- August 16 (virtual & in-person) State Fair Promotion! Products of the Hive, Food, Decorative Items– Tim Huffman (watch on YouTube and download presentation)
- July 19 (virtual & in-person) Brood Pheromone Effects on the Hive– Eric Talley, NCSBA Master Craftsman
- June 21 (virtual & in-person) Extracting Honey– Tim Huffman and Keith McLauren, 5CBA members
- May 17 (virtual & in-person) Safety in the Beeyard– Chad Caudle, Wake County EMS and Beekeeper in Granville County (watch on YouTube)
- April 19 (virtual & in-person) Gardening & Bees – Steve Amerige (watch on YouTube)
- March 17 (virtual & in-person) Decoding the Waggle Dance – Kory Goldsmith
- February 15 (virtual & in-person) Beekeeping Equipment– Darryl Gabritsch (download presentation)
- January 18 (virtual) Why You Really Should Take Notes on Your Bees! – Anya, Daniel, Greg, Jessica
2021
- December 21 (in-person) Annual Holiday Party and Games
- November 17 (virtual & in-person) Sentinel Apiary Program and Mite Drift – Kelly Kulhanek
- October 16 (virtual & in-person) Using 4 or 5 Five Frame Resource Hives – Daniel Harnden, Kory Goldsmith, Greg Wolgemuth
- September 21 (virtual & in-person) Twelve Months in His Apiary – Dave Bradley
- August 17 (virtual & in-person) State Fair Entry Preparation – Tim Huffman
- July 20 (virtual & in-person) Mites- the Importance of a Robust Monitoring Program – Lewis Cauble
- June 15 (virtual & in-person) What Would You Like to Know?- Magnus, Terry, Betsey, Daniel, and Kory
- May 18 (virtual) The Honey Flow is Over, Now What? – Dana Stahlman
- April 20 (virtual) Using the KISS Principle in Beekeeping – Jennifer Keller
- March 16 (virtual) Spring Management: Swarms & Queen Castles – Tim Huffman
- February 16 (virtual) Sustainable Apiary Techniques – Burton Beasley
- January 19 (virtual) Spring Management: Setting Up for Sucess – Libby Mack
2020
- December 15 (virtual) What and How of Beekeeping – Todd Prince
- November 17 (virtual) Beekeeping in General – Bryan Fisher
- October 20 (virtual) Listening to the Bees – Anya McGuirk
- September 15 (virtual) Top Bar and Long Lang Hive Management -Terry Wright and Lori Hawkins
- August 18 (virtual) Going into the Winter with Your Bees – CL Gobble
- July 21 (virtual) The Business of Beekeeping – Shannon Baxter
- June 16 (virtual) Cotton honey and NC Beekeepers Association membership – Guy Collins and James Dove
- May 19 (virtual) Honey Extraction Demo and Certified Honey Producer Program information –Tim Huffman, Ed Speers, Greg Wolgemuth, and Daniel Harnden
- Using a Bee Escape Board (2 mins)
- Using a Fume Board (3 min)
- Crush and Strain Method of Extracting Honey (3 1/2 mins)
- Using an Uncapping Plane (4 mins)
- Using the Club Extractor (6 mins)
- April 21 (virtual) Increasing Honey Production and Discussion about Beekeeping – Jody Moore
- March 17 Apiary Inspection – Adolphus Leonard
- February 18 Increase Essentials: Two Methods – Betsey Spencer and Tim Huffman
- January 21 Early Spring Buildup of Your Colonies – Betsey Spencer, Daniel Harnden, Greg Wolgemuth
2019
- December 17- Holiday Potluck Dinner and Tasting of 14 Varietal Honeys – Suzy Spencer
- November 19- Cooking with Honey -Greg Wolgemuth for Peter Kopcinski
- October 15- Pollinator Plants – Debbie Roos
- September 17- Bee Venom and Apitherapy – Tim Huffman & Terri Wright
- August 20- Varroa Mites and Treatments – Betsy Spencer & Greg Wolgemuth
- July 16- Anaphylaxis and Safety in the Apiary – Stone White & Ashton Knudson
- June 18- How to Read a Hive – Marc Gottlieb
- May 21- Honey Extraction – Greg Wolgemuth & Tim Huffman
- April 16- Commercial Pollination – Jerry Flanigan
- March 19- Spring Management for Honey Production – Betsy Spencer
- February 19-Bait Hives and Swarm Prevention – Dave Bradley
- January 15-Tim’s 12 Months in the Apiary – Tim Huffman
2018
- December 16- Christmas Potluck and Honey Tasting – Suzy Spencer and the club members
- November 20- Winter Chores – Greg et al
- October 16- Beekeeping in Slovenia & Sweden – Suzy Spencer and Magnus Ullberg
- September 18- 5CBA Born & Bred Project – David Arnold
- August 21- Varroa Destructor Mite – Lynn Williams
- July 17- Feeding Bees – Ronald Lassiter
- June 1- Myths about Beekeeping – State Inspector Adolphus Leonard
- May 15- Honey Extraction – Tim Huffman & Greg Wolgemuth
- April 17- Pollinator Gardens – Kim Huntzinger
- March 20- Beekeeping Equipment – Darryl Gabritsch
- February 20- How to Set Swarm Bait Hives – Tim Sider
- January 16- Observation Hives – Greg Wolgemuth and Tim Huffman
2017
- December 19- Holiday Potluck Dinner and Honey Tasting – Suzy Spencer
- November 21- Hive Scale Project Update – Annie Krueger
- October 17- European Foul Brood – 5CBA members
- Sepember 19- Having A Bee Plan for 2018 – David Lehmann and Blake Dexter
- August 15- Preparing Your Hives for the Winter by Treating Diseases and Splitting – Jennifer Keller and Tim Huffman
- July 18- Let’s Win some Prizes at the State Fair and Flow Hive Demo – 5CBA members
- June 20- Beekeeping Stories – Dana Stahlman
- May 16- Honey Extraction Demo – Tim Huffman
- April 18- Open Question Night for the Eastern NC Bee Inspector – Adolphus Leonard
- March 21- The Mechanics of Making a Split – Tim Huffman
- February 21- Honeybee Democracy – CL Gobble
- January 17- Essential and Extra Bee Equipment – Greg Wolgemuth and Kim Wood
2016
- December 16- Holiday Potluck Dinner
- November 15- Honey Tasting Basics Suzy Spencer
- October 18- Hive Tracks Demo, and Mentoring Beekeepers Mike Laskowski, Craig Dupree and Tim Huffman
- September 20- Preparing the Bees for Winter Tim Huffman
- August 16- Web Forum Demo, Anaphylactic Reaction to Bee Stings, and Safety in Bee Yard Magnus Ulberg, David Arnold, Suzy Spencer
- July 19- Hive Flow and Preparing State Fair Entries May Markoff and Don Hopkins
- June 21- Re‐Queening Betsy Spencer
- May 17- Honey Extraction, Honey Labels, and Becoming a Certified Honey Producer Tim Huffman, Matthew Jones, and Kim Underhill
- April 19- Pollination Larry Green
- March 16- Top 7 Ways to Kill Bees Will Hicks
- February 16- Coming Out of Winter, Prepping for Honey Flow and Swarms Ben Crowley
- January 19- Beekeeping Equipment Steve Baxter