Hands-On Workshop - Winter Hive PrepSaturday, 10/24 (time TBD)Agricultural Hall, 245 Amory St, Jamaica Plain, MACome learn how, and actually build, components to help your bees overwinter successfully.Updates to this meeting will be posted as we get closer to the meeting date.
Speaker: Nicolas Vidal-Nanuet, Veterinarian, Beekeeper, Author, NY Bee Sanctuary board member, visiting from France on book tour, author talk at 7pm with book signing to follow
More information on www.massbee.org/meetings/2015-fall-meetingSpeaker: Don Hopkins - North Carolina Bee Inspector talks about colony inspections, diagnosis, and treatments of common ailments.Speaker: Ed and Marian Szymanski - talks about Massachusetts Honey Plants. Time: 9:00AM - 3:30PM Location: Red Apple Farm, Phillipston, Massachusetts Lunch: King Phillip Restaurant - TBA "MBA Honey Show" Enter your best honey and beeswax products. Morning presentation "Apiary Inspection System in […]
As part of the meeting, there will be an Indian beekeeping presentation by Jonathan Abbott. Jonathan is a Masters student at MIT who studies improvements to Indian beekeeping using mechanical engineering. See some of the similarities and differences in beekeeping techniques and learn some cool things that might help your hives.Best parking is on Vassar […]
Join the BABA Board and members for a bee-themed holiday party at Follow the Honey. If you're looking for wonderful bee-related gifts for the honey lover, beekeeper (or beekeepers to be) in your life, this is the place. Stop by, say hello, and help out one of the most unique shops in Harvard Square.
DetailsWe will cover basic techniques of "organic" beekeeping, including materials and equipment, beehive structure, the life cycle of bees, hive development and dynamics, seasonal apiary work, honey and hive products, common pests and diseases, and hive management - with an emphasis on treatment-free and ecologically-friendly management techniques. We will taste local and varietal honeys, and […]
DetailsWe will cover basic techniques of "organic" beekeeping, including materials and equipment, beehive structure, the life cycle of bees, hive development and dynamics, seasonal apiary work, honey and hive products, common pests and diseases, and hive management - with an emphasis on treatment-free and ecologically-friendly management techniques. We will taste local and varietal honeys, and […]
DetailsWe will cover basic techniques of "organic" beekeeping, including materials and equipment, beehive structure, the life cycle of bees, hive development and dynamics, seasonal apiary work, honey and hive products, common pests and diseases, and hive management - with an emphasis on treatment-free and ecologically-friendly management techniques. We will taste local and varietal honeys, and […]
DetailsWe will cover basic techniques of "organic" beekeeping, including materials and equipment, beehive structure, the life cycle of bees, hive development and dynamics, seasonal apiary work, honey and hive products, common pests and diseases, and hive management - with an emphasis on treatment-free and ecologically-friendly management techniques. We will taste local and varietal honeys, and […]
Join us in hearing about honey bee health in Massachusetts from our new chief apiary inspector, Kim Skyrm! Kim is also interested in getting feedback from the regarding re-design of the Apiary Program so please come with suggestions and/or comments. On-street parking available on Pike Street (which is a one-way road exiting onto Albany Street). The entrance […]
DetailsWe will cover basic techniques of "organic" beekeeping, including materials and equipment, beehive structure, the life cycle of bees, hive development and dynamics, seasonal apiary work, honey and hive products, common pests and diseases, and hive management - with an emphasis on treatment-free and ecologically-friendly management techniques. We will taste local and varietal honeys, and […]
Mason bees, or orchard bees, are prodigious pollinators. Unlike honey bees, mason bees are solitary (and native to the Americas) and, as such, all females are fertile and produce eggs which they lay in small deep holes packed with food (a pollen and nectar mix), and seal with mud. And they're really cute & gentle. Learn about […]