4CBA Club Meeting with Kamon Reynolds via Zoom
2025-02-20 18:30 - 20:00 (America/Chicago)
We’re thrilled to announce that Kamon Reynolds, the beekeeper behind the popular Tennessee’s Bees YouTube channel, will be joining us for our February bee club meeting! Kamon is widely recognized for his practical, hands-on advice and innovative techniques for managing successful hives. Whether you’re a seasoned beekeeper or just starting out, this is a fantastic opportunity to learn from one of the most engaging voices in modern beekeeping. Mark your calendars and get ready to take your beekeeping knowledge to the next level! 🐝

4CBA Seminar: Better Queens with Cory Stevens in person!
2025-03-08 09:00 - 16:00 (America/Chicago) | Fort Lewis College, 1000 Rim Drive, Durango, CO, 81301, United States
Join us in March as we welcome Cory Stevens for a daylong seminar at Fort Lewis College Lyceum Theater. Cory is an accomplished beekeeper and queen breeder specializing in sustainable beekeeping practices! Cory is known for his work with survivor stock and promoting strategies for breeding hardy, resilient bees. This is a unique opportunity to learn about improving hive health through genetics and natural selection from a leading expert. Don’t miss this inspiring and educational event—perfect for beekeepers at all levels! 🐝
https://www.stevensbeeco.com/
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4CBA Club Meeting with Tina Sebestyen
2025-04-17 18:30 - 20:00 (America/Chicago)

2025 Bee Package Delivery - TBD
2025-04-26 13:30 - 17:00 (America/Chicago) | Zuberfizz, 284 Sawyer Dr Ste A, Durango, CO, 81301, United States

4CBA Club Meeting - Pat Donahue on Sustainable Beekeeping
2025-05-15 18:00 - 20:30 (America/Chicago) | Florida Baptist Church, 30296 US-160, Durango, CO, 81301, United States

4CBA Club Meeting - Randy Oliver
2025-06-19 18:30 - 20:00 (America/Chicago) | Florida Baptist Church, 30296 US-160, Durango, CO, 81301, United States
Topic – TBD

4CBA Club Meeting at LilyBee Farms with Kristie Hinds
2025-07-17 18:30 - 20:00 (America/Chicago) | LilliBee Farms
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!
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4CBA Club Meeting - Promote Bee Vitality with Terra Vera technology!
2025-09-18 18:30 - 20:00 (America/Denver) | Florida Baptist Church, 30296 US-160, Durango, CO, 81301, United States
﻿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!

4CBA Special Club event with Tina Sebestyen: Beekeeping in Israel
2025-11-20 18:30 - 20:00 (America/Denver) | Florida Baptist Church, 30296 US-160, Durango, CO, 81301, United States
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 Northern Israel, and got to see the commercial beekeeping aspect. Add in a day with a bee extension specialist conducting scientific experiments, and she learned some new information about bees and mite control. Along the way, she met many intriguing characters and, in the end, got stuck there during the 12-day war between Israel and Iran. She’ll share the adventure and escape.

4CBA Club Meeting: Cory Stevens and Queen Cell Builders
2026-01-15 18:30 - 20:00 (America/Denver) | Zoom, United States
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.

4CBA Club Meeting - Paul Kelly, Researcher & Apiary Manager
2026-02-19 18:30 - 20:00 (America/Denver) | Zoom, United States
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, training for students and beekeepers, coordinates and teaches beekeeping courses, and conducts facility tours for the general public.
Paul’s interests include bee breeding, beekeeping tool design and manufacture, beekeeping video production, medicinal use of hive products, and hive management techniques. Paul and the HBRC team have produced 77 beekeeping videos for the HBRC YouTube channel. They have been translated into 12 languages and have been viewed approximately 30 million times. He makes and sells Bee Belts, the tool belt for beekeepers.
Paul received the Eastern Apiculture Society, Roger A. Morse Extension Award in 2017, and was inducted into the Ontario Agriculture Hall of Fame in 2022.

Ontario beekeepers traditionally managed their colonies in two brood chambers. Most of us thought this was the only way it was possible to provide enough space for food stores and for brood production. Starting in the 1990’s many of us experimented with using single brood chambers. This is now the most common method of managing bee hives in our province. I will describe how to transition to singles, the timing considerations, and the pros and cons of this method of managing beehives.

This will be a Zoom Meeting
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4CBA Club Meeting with Dr. Katie Lee from the University of Minnesota
2026-03-19 18:30 - 20:00 (America/Denver) | Zoom, United States
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/
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Beginner Beekeeping Class
2026-04-11 10:00 - 17:00 (America/Denver) | La Plata County Fairgrounds, 2500 Main Avenue, Durango, CO, 81301, United States
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

4CBA Club Meeting with Tina Sebestyen - All About the Queen!
2026-04-16 18:30 - 20:00 (America/Denver) | Florida Baptist Church, 30296 US-160, Durango, CO, 81301, United States
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 it
means her death? Why do queens sometimes ignore queen cups and what triggers them to lay eggs in
cups later? Why do bees still start queen cells when there is a caged queen in the hive? Why do they kill
your brand-new, expensive queen even when they are hopelessly queenless, and how can we improve
queen acceptance? All of these questions can be answered by understanding All About the Queen. Can’t
wait to see you all!

4CBA Bee Package Delivery Day! Time of delivery TBD!
2026-04-25 13:00 - 15:00 (America/Denver) | Zuberfizz, 284 Sawyer Dr Ste A, Durango, CO, 81301, United States

4CBA Club Meeting with Kirk Webster
2026-05-21 18:30 - 20:00 (America/Denver) | Zoom, United States
Author and beekeeper Kirk Webster of Vermont joins us to discuss his nuc preparation.
Kirk Webster’s book

4CBA Club Meeting - Presenter Beth Conrey, former commercial beekeeper, Front Range, CO
2026-06-18 18:30 - 20:00 (America/Denver) | Florida Baptist Church, 30296 US-160, Durango, CO, 81301, United States
My name is Beth Conrey, and I’m the former owner of Bee Squared Apiaries, a small beekeeping operation based in Berthoud, Colorado. I care for 207 hives across Weld, Larimer, and Boulder counties.
I began beekeeping over 20 years ago after reading a series of newspaper columns written by my friend, Tom Theobald. I’ve always been a little “buggy”—I even collected insects as a 4-H project while growing up in Maryland and New Mexico. That collection still hangs in my hallway today. Tom’s words inspired me to take a beekeeping class, and from that moment on, I was hooked.
I started with just two hives, fascinated by the bees’ rhythms and habits. Sitting in a lawn chair at dusk, watching them return heavy with pollen, I couldn’t help but wonder: Where do they find it? What’s blooming nearby? How do they spread the word? The more I observed, the more captivated I became. Soon, my husband was joining me in swarm-catching and hive removals, and before long, two hives grew into sixty.
Bees are astonishing. The honey bee, Apis mellifera, is the most closely studied beneficial insect in the world. Each one produces just 1/12 of a teaspoon of honey in its lifetime. To create a single pound of honey, a hive must visit two million flowers. Two million! These numbers still amaze me.
And yet, season after season, the bees produce more than they need. That abundance is what I get to share with you.
https://bethsbees.com/about/

4CBA Club Meeting - Ice Cream Social @ Durango Botanic Gardens
2026-07-16 18:30 - 20:00 (America/Denver)
Come one, come all to our annual Ice Cream Social held at the Durango Botanic Gardens at the Durango Library!

4CBA Club Meeting - Annual Pot Luck at Lilybee Farm
2026-08-20 18:30 - 20:00 (America/Denver) | LilliBee Farms
https://lilybeefarm.com/
