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Date: Tuesday, July 11, 2023 Time: 7:00 pm (Beginner Q&A at 6:30pm) Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens auditorium or Online  Description: With years of beekeeping experience under his belt, Andy will openly and humorously expound on the litany of mistakes, missteps and miscalculations he has made during his beekeeping adventures. Speaker: Andy Hemken has been a successful beekeeper since 1995, tending as many as 400 hives, selling honey at multiple markets, teaching beekeeping, ergonomics, and farm market classes, and mentoring many beekeepers and mead makers. Andy served as president of the Milwaukee Waukesha Beekeeping Association for 17 years and did a two-year term as the President of the Wisconsin Honey Producers. He is a member of the Beer Barons of Milwaukee, one of the largest beer and mead clubs in the Midwest, and has won 25 awards for mead making. His article Secrets of Beekeeping published in the May 2023 edition of the American Bee Journal. Please join us - our monthly meetings are always free and open to the public! Date: Tue, March 14, 2022 | Time: 7 pm | Location: Auditorium at the Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Online on Zoom Bradley Galdstone will discuss what Urban Bee LLC does in Southeastern Michigan, what biodynamic beekeeping means, and areas of opportunities to grow as a vocation/avocation  Speaker: Bradley Gladstone is a Biodynamic beekeeper who also works as an accountant. Bradley graduated Northwood University in 2012 with a Bachelor of Science, concentration in accounting, and received CPA certification in 2013. He has been a gardener since 2012 and a beekeeper since 2015. He started Urban Bee LLC in 2017,and currently has up to 11 clients across Southeastern Michigan. 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 Wintering - What Do Bees Need? Gary S. Reuter will be discussing what bees need to successfully get through winter. Including biologic links to the needs and management practices to help the bees.  Speaker: Gary S. Reuter, Bee Lab Coordinator, University of Minnesota, Department of Entomology, Apiculture Lab. Gary Reuter retired from the University of Minnesota Bee Lab in 2021 after almost 30 years and is now back part time as Bee Lab Coordinator. Gary is a long-time hobby beekeeper and trained in technology education. He began working with Marla when she moved to Minnesota in 1993. Without his hard work, the program would not be what it is today. He maintained the research colonies, helped train and work with students in the field, designed and built specialty equipment, and speaks to beekeeping, student and civic groups. He planned the Extension short courses and together with Marla taught beginning as well as experienced beekeepers. His humorous style of teaching helps the classes stay interested and enthusiastic about a sometimes challenging subject. He is a past president of both Minnesota Hobby Beekeepers Association and Wisconsin Honey Producers Association and director of the American Beekeeping Federation. Please join us - our monthly meetings are always free and open to the public! 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! |
