Hello Beekeepers! Our last meeting of the year will be Tuesday, Oct 27th at 6:30 pm at the Flathead County Health Department, second floor. Please bring enough of your honey for taste testing by our club members. If you didn’t collect any this year, please come anyways and help taste! And please feel free to bring a dessert or after dinner snack! Angela will be providing Decaf Coffee service.

Our September meeting will be Monday, September 21st at 5:30-7 pm at the Flathead Valley College Campus Farm. We will be doing a final inspection of their bees to assess winter feed need and a live demonstration of insulating the hives. The weather is great for Monday but please bring your veil at least! If you have to grab food on the road at the end of the work day, feel free to bring to the meeting and munch away!

Directions to the farm at 216 Hutton Ranch Rd, Kalispell, MT 59901:
Heading North towards Whitefish, turn right after Walmart on to Hutton Ranch Rd
Drive straight through the stoplight
At the Round about, take the FIRST right towards the farm on the dirt road
Drive past the metal buildings and curve right towards the greenhouse
Turn right into the the Greenhouse and Distillery buildings to park. Then walk down the road to enter the main gates to the farm and apiary (on the right)

Our new state entomologist, Amy Savage, will be in the Flathead Valley on September 15th with Bob Seifert. They have extended the offer to visit any hobbyist’s apiary who wants them to do an inspection and offer advice on what they see. If you are interested in getting help from our state entomologist, please send an email to apiary@mt.gov to set that up!

Due to a scheduling conflict, Angela will not be able to host the August beekeeping meeting normally scheduled for August 25th. Instead, we will meet onsite at the FVCC Farms and Apiary in September. The date and directions for that event will be announced this week and will be on a weekend. Please watch your emails and Facebook for that date!

We will have our usual in person meeting at the Flathead County Health Department at 6:30 pm on Tuesday. Bring all your questions and we’ll also talk about August To Dos!

Instructor- Angela Tollerson      

2 sessions
Fri-Sat, Jul 10-11   
11:30-3:30pm
Limited to 17 people
Prerequisite: Either Beginning Beekeeping Course completed or at least one season of beekeeping experience already.
Learn advanced techniques about beekeeping like splitting, queen rearing, marking queens, second year beekeeping, hive autopsies, honey extraction and much more.
An apiary visit on campus on day two will require protective personal equipment/apiary veil.

Hello beekeepers! Just a reminder that we will be meeting on June 30th at 6:30 pm at the Flathead County Health Department (second floor). We will be answering all your questions and talking about July To Dos!

We will be meeting at 6:30 pm on Tuesday, May 26th at our usual in person spot at the Flathead County Health Department (1035 1st Ave W, Kalispell second floor) See you there!

Our monthly meeting will be Tuesday night, the 28th, at the Flathead County Health Department on the second floor. We will talk about installing bees, splitting colonies, and answer questions!

Our March meeting will be this Tuesday, March 31st at 6:30 pm at our usual spot at the Flathead County Health Department second floor. Chrissy Lambert will be speaking to us about the USDA bear fencing program and how to take advantage of this financial and planning assistance. We will then discuss April To-Do’s and answer questions!