Kearsarge Beekeepers Association
Dedicated to promoting beekeeping and supporting local beekeepers
Our bee school has started and is going well. We have 2 days completed and have 3 more days to come. We are extremally pleased with the turn out and the enthusiasm of the students.
CHECK this page for any school CANCELLATIONS because of winter weather.
Our meeting comes earlier than usual because Bee School starts on the 14th. Come and meet the new officers and thank those that are leaving service. We meet at the Warner town hall at 9. Come and join us and bee refreshed with talk of bees, bee school and club activities.
Come and join us on Friday, November 11th at 5:30pm at the First Free Will Baptist Church in North Sutton, NH.
Dinner will be around 7pm. We have our yearly honey tasting contest so bring a jar of your honey and you may find that you have the most popular honey in the club. You never know! We also have a raffle that night so please bring some treasure for that event.
It is important that you come early if you are going to enter the honey contest, the honey needs to be rebottled, labeled and the table set up. The coveted “First Place,” in the honey contest is almost as popular as the “Smoker King or Queen” contest we have at the summer cookout. There will be many entries and there’s lots of setup. PLEASE come by 6 if you are entering the contest.
The Harvest dinner evening is really not to be missed. Lots and lots of great food and friends. Please bring a dish to share, serving utensil, your own beverage and your appetite for a good time.
We will have a normal business meeting and the have guest speaker Tucka Bee give a presentation to the club. We will also be voting on a new club logo for tee shirts and other apparel.
The speaker is Tucka Bee of TuckaBee LLC. She runs apiaries in New York and Florida. She attended Apimondia in Turkey this October. Thank you to Susan Menard for arranging our special speaker
at 9 am on the 15th. The main purpose of the meeting is to do the planning for the Harvest Dinner on November 11th.
The October Newsletter is out and is available in the Newsletter page. As usual Marilyn has done a bee-autiful job on this month’s copy.
Heather Achilles will join us as a guest speaker at our September 10th regular meeting. She will provide an NHBA Citizen Science Project / Research Update: Highlights for the Winter Hive Survey and What We Learned in our Winter Wrap Study. Our meeting will be held at the Warner Town Hall at 9:00 AM, followed by Heather’s presentation. Hope to see you there!
9 am 223 North Road, Sunapee at the KBA apiary.
Check to see what affect if any the dearth had on the hives. Discuss signs of hive starvation / stress.
Bee there!
At August’s meeting Susan gave a nice presentation on controlling mites and keeping healthy bees. Susan’s overwintering successes are way above the norm because of her diligent bee management.
Come to the September meeting at the Warner town hall for more beekeeping information and get together with BEE PEOPLE. They are the best!
Come to the monthly KBA meeting at the Warner town hall on Saturday the 13th.
Club member Susan Menard will be giving us a presentation on treating for mites followed by a round robin panel on different treatments.
We hope to see you there.
We have a new smoker contest winner, Carol Currotto! She will get her name on the treasured KBA Copper Smoker and have the bragging rights as champ until next year.
There was a fun raffle with the “Richard Brewster” method of choosing winners with playing cards. There was plenty of bee related items that members brought to the raffle.
Our cook for the picnic was none other than the NHBA president, Shane Howard. He and Bam kept us in meat from the grill. Great work guys!