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Date: Tue, Dec 13, 2022 | Time: 7 pm | Location: Auditorium at the Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Online on Zoom Topic: In-House Q&AWe'll answer participant questions on all things beekeeping.
Please join us - our monthly meetings are always free and open to the public!Date: Tue, Nov 8, 2022 | Time: 7 pm | Location: Auditorium at the Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Online on Zoom The Joy of Mite ManagementWhat varroa mites are, how they got here, and why they are a problem. Dr. Mendel will teach us about their lifecycle, their mechanisms for spreading amongst bee colonies, and techniques for managing them at different times of the seasons. We will also get an update about the University of Minnesota Bee Lab and its breeding program, as it relates to mites.
Please join us - our monthly meetings are always free and open to the public!Date: Tue, Oct 11, 2022 | Time: 7 pm | Location: Auditorium at the Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Online on Zoom Apiary Biosecurity Limits DiseasesHow management practices for biosecurity measures can support and enhance colony health and survival. We will discuss general biosecurity strategies in the following areas: 1. Best Management Practices (BMPs) by the beekeeper 2. Biosecurity related to climate, the macro- and micro-environment 3. Pests and Pathogens 4. Agrochemicals/the impact of toxins 5. Hygienic bees
Please join us - our monthly meetings are always free and open to the public!Date: Tue, Sep 13, 2022 | Time: 7 pm | Location: Auditorium at the Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Online on Zoom Go with the Flow: My Experiences with the Flow HiveWho came up with the Flow Hive? What is a Flow Hive? Where are Flow Hives most effective? When were they invented? How does it work? Why should you get one? Or why shouldn't you?
Please join us - our monthly meetings are always free and open to the public!Date: Tue, Aug 9, 2022 | Time: 7 pm | Location: Auditorium at the Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Online on Zoom Topic: What to Do About Angry Bees
The main presentation starts at 7 pm, but feel free to arrive in the auditorium or sign in online starting at 6:30 pm for a beginners Q&A session. See our Facebook page or join via the Zoom link above. Speaker: Melissa Caughey. Melissa is a backyard chicken keeper, seasoned beekeeper, Master Gardener, crafting maven, culinarian and nurse practitioner. She contributes to HGTV, DIY Network, Angi, Grit Magazine, Community Chickens and Keeping Backyard Bees. She can be found traveling the country presenting on chicken keeping, beekeeping, gardening and crafting at both private and public events including Country Living Magazine Fairs and the Mother Earth News Fairs. Melissa has been featured on NPR and in People Magazine, Reader's Digest, Forbe's Magazine and Better Homes and Gardens Magazine. She also serves as an advisor to A-list celebrities keeping chickens. Melissa's website has won multiple awards including The Blue Ribbon Blogger Award from Country Living Magazine and Top 10 Gardening Blogs by Better Homes and Gardens Magazine in 2014 and 2016. Her first best-selling book, A Kid's Guide to Keeping Chickens, has won the 2016 Learning Magazine Teacher's Choice Award and the 2016 American Academy for the Advancement of Science's Prize for Excellence in Science Books. Her second book, How to Speak Chicken, has been named as one of 2017's Best Bird and Birding Books by Forbes Magazine and has won Silver in the Foreward INDIES Book of the Year Award in the Pets and Animals Category. Her follow-up book, Chicken Wisdom, features Melissa's original quotes and favorite thoughts bringing inspirational and encouraging messages filled with kindness to the reader released during the start of the pandemic. A 2023 How to Speak Chicken wall calendar releases in July 2022 and look for her new book, My Chicken Family, in early 2023. Melissa calls Cape Cod home, where she lives with her husband, two children and a menagerie of animals. For more, please visit: www.tillysnest.com Please join us - our monthly meetings are always free and open to the public!Date: Tue, July 12, 2022 | Time: 7 pm | Location: Auditorium at the Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Online on Zoom Topic: Preparing to Overwinter Your Hives in MichiganThe main presentation starts at 7 pm, but feel free to arrive in the auditorium or sign in online starting at 6:30 pm for a beginners Q&A session. See our Facebook page or join via the Zoom link above. NOTE: Please post questions/comments in the Zoom chat. Facebook is not monitored during our educational meetings.
I became a Master Gardener (and later as an Advanced Master Gardener and Master Gardener of the Year), by volunteering at Michigan State University Tollgate Education Center (where I was the recipient of the Golden Shovel Award and, later, the Ginger Meyer Award) helping, for over 20 years, with, among other things, the High Density Orchard (being the Area Leader for over 20 years), Maple Syrup and Beekeeping Programs and the 4H club. I have also been volunteering for several years with:
I am also a member of several other organizations including, but not limited to: American Soybean Association, Arbor Day Foundation, Michigan Bar Association, Michigan Soybean Association, and Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation. Please join us - our monthly meetings are always free and open to the public!Topic: The Game of DronesHoney bee drones are the Rodney Dangerfields of the bee world: they (often) get no respect! Learn all about the amazing drones and their mysterious drone congregation areas (and how to find them using the other kind of drone) at this informative talk. The main presentation starts at 7 pm, but feel free to sign in starting at 6:30 pm for a beginners Q&A session. See our Facebook page or join via the Zoom link above. NOTE: Please post questions/comments in the Zoom chat. Facebook is not monitored during our educational meetings.
Please join us - our monthly meetings are always free and open to the public! https://www.honeybeesuite.com Beekeeping is all about doing the right things at the right time, and a big part of being able to do the right things at the right time is preparation.
For example, don't wait until you see swarm cells to take action to prevent swarming (you're probably too late at that point anyway), but prepare for spring swarms by adding more space or splitting your hives. Not sure what you need to prepare for? The Beekeeping Calendar from Cornell University is a great resource! https://pollinator.cals.cornell.edu/sites/pollinator.cals.cornell.edu/files/shared/documents/Beekeeping%20Calendar%20for%20the%20Northeast.pdf Happy Beekeeping! |
