May Online Zoom Meeting
The Health department will not allow us to meet in groups of greater than 10 until June. Our May meeting will also be online using the Zoom platform. Please check to see if you need to download the Zoom software or apps before the meeting starts on Tuesday at 6:30 pm, 5/26.
I will be simultaneously broadcasting the meeting on Facebook. However, that has limited audience participation via comments on the video. Zoom will be necessary if you wish to communicate easily to others during the meeting.
Topics will be Q&A, Lessons Learned, and June To Dos. Bring your questions and your stories! See you Tuesday online.
April 2020 Online Meeting – Making Splits and Queens, and Winter Autopsy report
We had a small but eager turn out for our online April meeting on 4/28/20. I was nervous and said “um” way too much. But hopefully you can look past the glitches and garner some knowledge from this clumsy attempt. Head on over to our Resources > Videos page to watch!
University of Montana Beekeeping Online Class Registration Open
Registration for the 2020 online beekeeping courses –Apprentice and Master– opened Monday, 4/27 at 12:00 pm! Please click on the button below to visit their website for dates and prices for these and other classes like Journeyman and Natural Beekeeping
There is an option to test out of the Apprentice level for only $60 if you are confident in your beginning beekeeping and want to be eligible to skip straight to the Journeyman or Natural Beekeeping course.
Note: If you want to take the Natural Beekeeping course — completing or testing out of the Apprentice course is required.
April online meeting Tuesday 6 pm
We will be discussing Winter Autopsies, Splitting and Queen rearing techniques, and May To Dos:
Meeting Link: https://meet.google.com/qsy-fydx-sga
or
Join by phone +1 617-675-4444 PIN: 112 742 459 9821#
You can attend a Google Meet through your browser or if you want to use your phone or pad there is a Google Hangouts meeting application you can download here:
Apple: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/meet/id1013231476
Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.meetings
Free Online Beekeeping 101 from Penn State till 4/30/20
This is exciting, you can take the Beekeeping 101 class online from Penn State for FREE if you register by April 30th, 2020. Please take advantage of this even if you aren’t totally new to beekeeping. I assure you there is always something to learn! You will have 60 days to complete it but you still need to register before the 30th. Good luck!
Swarm Trap How-To Presentation
The slide presentation that Angela gave earlier this year about how to build and execute swarm traps is now live on our Resources > How-To Presentations page Also including it here below for your convenience:
Building Swarm Traps Under $10
Because our efforts to have a workshop for building traps have been squashed by Shelter in Place directives, I wanted to give all of you an online video source for building your own swarm traps! You can certainly “convert” a deep box into a trap by screwing plywood onto the bottom of a box and strapping a plywood lid onto your box and drilling a 2 inch hole in one side. Bee trap!
But if you would like slimmer, less heavy traps to carry around (especially when putting in a tree) these videos are great step by step examples and will have to do during these times. Please feel free to call or email Angela (use contact form on this site) for any questions about swarm trapping.
Free! New Bee Magazine Issue
Our friends at 2 million Blossoms are offering a free January 2020 electronic issue to help pull us out of our Covid-19 depression! You can take advantage of it here
Wintering In The North Online Session
Etienne Tardif is a Beekeeper and Teacher in the Yukon in Zone 1 north of us. I first heard him speak about Northern Winterizing at Apimondia 2019 in Montreal. He is offering a free or by donation online class for how he successfully winterizes on Sunday. Please see the information from him below!
Session#1 Wintering in the North – April 5 – 3 to 5pm (MST)
Registration (Free or by donation) -> https://forms.gle/46YVFJPrmijDvUMb9
As promised, I will be giving folks a beekeeping webinar using Zoom. If you have never used it please download the app to your computer/tablet or smart phone. It is fairly easy to use.
Here is a video tutorial – please have it installed and tested before the actual session
Only people who register will get the password. Open to anyone.
Zoom Invitation number:
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us04web.zoom.us/j/845654189?pwd=TGx6QWdieFJQak9hdmhKMXlzZmUxZz09
Meeting ID: 845 654 189
The meeting is password protected