Welcome Beekeepers

Next meeting is
Thursday May 9th  at 7pm
  
  Meeting: Presentation Supering and Swarm Control
at PEACE LUTHERAN CHURCH, 2084 COUNTY RD N, BALDWIN WI 54002.

2013 Honey Bee Poster Contest information

Everyone is Welcome to attend!
 At  Peace Lutheran Church  2084 County Rd N in Baldwin WI.   


 
Baldwin Extension Office meeting location
Beekeepers donate Natural Beekeeping, 2nd edition: Organic Approaches to Modern Apiculture REVISED AND EXPANDED EDITION By Ross Conrad to the Roberts WI, Hazel Mackin Library which is part of the MORE library system. Order it online then pick it up at your local library.

2013 Meeting Schedule


Jun 13 Meeting: Presentation by Kim and Doug Sjostrom on Products Made from Bees Wax to all members

Jul 11 Meeting:  Presentation by Jim Kloek Nature’s Nectar on Fall Management/Feeding Bees/Treating Bees to all members

Jul 17-21 ST Croix County Fair Honey Hut...Need Volunteers to serve honey products and speak about beekeeping to the public

Aug 8-11th Pierce County Fair in Ellsworth WI. . .Need Volunteers tostaff a booth with a demo hive, talk to public and sell honey.

Aug 15th DATE CHANGE Inspections of SCVBeekeepers Bee Hives during the day by Gordon Waller; Gordon To Give A Short Presentation at  Our Annual Beekeeping Picnic at Jerome  Rodewald’s Picnic Park in River Falls WI  

Sep 12 Meeting: Sep 12 Meeting: Nominations, Presentation to Master Beekeepers given by Adrian Quiney - “Raising nucs and winters them here in the cold climate” TBD speaker to Beginning Beekeepers on “Winterizing Your Bees” 

Oct 10 Meeting: Elections, Presentation by Gary Reuter to all members “ Mead Making 101”

Nov 14 Board Meeting -  Planning Preparations for 2014

Dec-Feb You are on your own.  A good time to get in some reading time, look over your notes, make a list to get things done before next bee season.

Jan 2014 Date TBD Annual Christmas Party


The Honey Bee
is
Wisconsin State
Insect
  

In 1977, the third grade class of Holy Family School in Marinette was studying the legislative process, hands-on.


 With encouragement from the Wisconsin Honey Producers Association,
they asked the Legislature to select the honey bee
(Apis mellifera)
as the state insect.


The news got the school community abuzz. Attempts to get
other elementary school students to help
choose a state bug
by popular ballot failed.


 The monarch butterfly, dragonfly, ladybug and mosquito were contenders
for the title,
 but the honey bee
won out.









































from
http://dnr.wi.gov/org
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