Events

Join us for a wax rendering and candle-making workshop!  This will be held at our President's farm, Lilybee Farm.  There will also be a couple of hive inspections.  Come one and all! Screenshot

We are excited that Terra Vera is coming to our September 18 meeting to demonstrate their groundbreaking technology that helps bee health and fights mites and diseases. Check out their website!

Tina visited Israel for her second time in June. She spent a holiday weekend with a backyard beekeeper, and did some beekeeping with her and another member of their Sustainable Beekeeping group, and learned some interesting dangers in Israeli beekeeping. Then she spent a few days working with one of the biggest honey producers in […]

This is a Zoom event! Cory Stevens will be discussing cell builders and how we can raise queens from the good stock we got from him.

Paul will be talking about Single Brood Chamber management – What we’ve learned in 30 years of managing hives with one brood chamber Paul has managed the Honey Bee Research Centre since 1987. His primary role is to manage honey bee colonies for research and teaching purposes. He provides research support for hive health science, […]

Dr. Katie Lee received her MS and PhD from the University of Minnesota with Dr. Marla Spivak. Her research focuses on Varroa, metrics that indicate queen and colony health, and benefits of pollinator plantings on honey bee health. She founded two of the Bee Informed Partnership’s Tech-Transfer Teams. https://www.beelab.umn.edu/ Screenshot

One-day beginner beekeeping class offered by Tina Sebestyen on Saturday, April 11, 2026.  Time: 10 am to 5 pm.  Cost is $60.00.  US Armed Forces Veterans are free. Held at La Plata County Fairgrounds.  Sign up by contacting Tina at bee.seeking@gmail.com

All About the Queen! This will be our first in-person meeting of the year. Don't miss it! Pretty much the only thing beginning beekeepers are taught is that there is only one queen in the colony, and it turns out, not even that is true! Why does a queen lay eggs in supersedure cells when […]

Author and beekeeper Kirk Webster of Vermont joins us to discuss his nuc preparation. Kirk Webster's book