Date: Tuesday, October 12 | Time: 7 pm | Location: Online on Zoom Topic: Preparing Your Hives for Winter
Please join us - our monthly meetings are always free and open to the public!Date: Tuesday, September 14 | Time: 7 pm | Location: Online on Zoom Topic: Colony ManagementHow Your Management System Impacts the Health and Productivity of Your Colonies The main presentation starts at 7 pm, but feel free to drop in beginning at 6:30 pm for a beginners' Q&A session.
Please join us - our monthly meetings are always free and open to the public!August's Monthly Meeting: Mite Biting Behavior - How to Improve Your Apiary the Inexpensive Way7/23/2021
Topic: Mite Biting BehaviorDorothey will explain mite biting behavior, finding it in your state, replacing your queen inexpensively, and expanding your apiary. The main presentation starts at 7 pm, but feel free to drop in beginning at 6:30 pm for a beginners' Q&A session.
Please join us - our monthly meetings are always free and open to the public!The main presentation starts at 7 pm, but feel free to drop in beginning at 6:30 pm for an open Q&A session. To view take home points from this meeting please visit the "General Meeting Take Home Points" section of the members only tab. Presenter: Grai St. Clare Rice is a co-founder of Honeybee Lives, with Chris Harp. She is an organic beekeeper, with 16 years of experience, as well as writer/photographer based in New York City. Grai is a native of New York City and describes herself as a city girl with a country heart. After ten years as an Editor/Producer at CNN’s New York Bureau, and many years before in the film, art, and publishing worlds, Grai’s focus turned to beekeeping and writing. With her love and knowledge of honeybees she is able to use her talents to encourage a better understanding and appreciation of honeybees by the public at large and help nurture beekeepers to embrace a gentle spiritual approach to their care thru intensive classes, presentations and writings. Topic: During the course of evolution, pollinators and plants have been involved in a seductive relationship that has been instrumental in creating the fecund world we live in today. Honeybees are the most productive pollinators because of how they communicate within the community of their colony. Understand how honeybees forage and how they interact with flowers in their search for nectar and pollen. Please join us - our monthly meetings are always free and open to the public! Date: Tue, March 9 | Time: 7 pm | Location: Online on Zoom Learn to identify reasons for a colony’s death based on the clues the bees left behind and how to prevent colony loss in future beekeeping seasons. The main presentation starts at 7 pm, but feel free to drop in beginning at 6:30 pm for an open Q&A session. Ana Heck has been an Apiculture Extension Educator at Michigan State University since July 2020. She was introduced to beekeeping while working in Nicaragua for two years with a non-profit organization that engaged local communities in rural development projects. She joined the University of Minnesota Bee Lab's Bee Squad in 2014, and she began with Michigan State University in 2019. Her work involves apiculture education initiatives and implementing policies to protect managed pollinators. Heck holds a Master’s degree in Public Policy and a graduate minor in Entomology from the University of Minnesota. Please join us - our monthly meetings are always free and open to the public!To see a recording of this presentation, click here.Online meeting February 6, 2021, 1pm - 3pmJoin Dave Pearce, A2B2's Bee School lead instructor, for an overview and discussion of what it takes to get started in beekeeping, why you might want to, and what to expect. FREE and open to the public via the Zoom platform. Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86885160696?pwd=K0VlRkl2emlaZEFWNFFhWGZFbzM0UT09 Meeting ID: 868 8516 0696 Passcode: 825737 Dave Pearce is the owner of Local Buzz Bees and Honey and is the lead instructor at the A2B2 bee school. Questions? Please feel free to contact him @ 248-302-7797 or dpearce007@hotmail.com.
Thank you to all who came out to support our club!We are grateful for everyone who helped make the 2019 Holiday Gala a success! Thank you to Lauren Bloom & Matt Ritchey, owners of Bløm Meadworks (Ann Arbor) for their interesting and informative presentation on mead. Thank you to everyone who attended and bid on items in the silent auction and/or participated in the mead tasting. Thank you to our volunteers who kept the event running smoothly, our mead servers for keeping glasses filled, and Jennifer Rudolph for catering. And a big thank you to A2B2's leadership team: Mike Nardelli, Michelle Scott, Cindy Schroeder, Lee Walsh, Jen Haeger, Vicky Rudolph, and David Clipner. Your efforts are greatly appreciated! The Fifth Annual Holiday Gala will take place Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2020. Mark your calendar for a fun night out to support your club!What: Silent Auction and Mead Tasting When: Tuesday, December 10, 6pm–9pm [note the earlier starting time] Where: Auditorium at Matthaei Botanical Gardens (1800 N. Dixboro Road, Ann Arbor, MI 48105) Cost: Admission to the Gala and silent auction is FREE; mead tasting is $15 for five one-ounce pours, and includes a keepsake engraved wine glass Ann Arbor Backyard Beekeepers Club presents its 4th Annual Holiday Gala! It will feature a silent auction and mead tasting, along with a presentation on mead by Lauren Bloom & Matt Ritchey, owners of Bløm Meadworks (Ann Arbor, MI). Admission to the Gala and silent auction is FREE; mead tasting is $15 for five one-ounce pours, and includes a keepsake engraved wine glass. Appetizers will be provided. "At Bløm Meadworks (pronounced “bloom”), we make what we like to call session meads and ciders – they’re light, dry, carbonated, and remarkably sessionable. For our meads, we start with the same ingredients as a traditional mead - honey, water and yeast - which means we can source all of our ingredients from Michigan. Unlike most meads though, we ferment it like a dry craft cider, so the result isn’t nearly as thick or sweet as traditional mead. So, if the word “mead” automatically conjures a drinking hall filled with Vikings for you, think of ours as its friendly, approachable descendants, without the pillage and plunder." Learn more at http://www.drinkblom.com/. This event is the club's primary fundraiser of the year. Please join us to sample a selection of meads from a dozen craft producers (including Bløm), learn about mead from the experts, and finish up your Christmas shopping (or buy yourself a little something!) at the silent auction. |
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