Hands-On Workshop – Winter Hive Prep

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 […]

BABA Nov 2015 Meeting

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

Massachusetts Beekeepers Assoc Fall Meeting

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 - […]

BABA Dec 2015 Meeting

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 […]

Bee-themed Holiday Party

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 […]

BABA Bee School Winter 2016

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, […]

BABA Bee School Winter 2016

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, […]

BABA Bee School Winter 2016

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, […]

BABA Bee School Winter 2016

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, […]

BABA March 2016 Meeting

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 […]

BABA Bee School Winter 2016

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, […]

The Mighty Mason Bee

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 […]