The Choreography of Handling Bee Equipment & Working with Bees

Are you a new bee keeper wanting some hands-on assistance with working your bees? If so, Debra Roberts, a Master Bee Keeper and member of BCBC, is offering a workshop designed to address your needs. There are three different dates available for you to choose. The workshop will include lecture and demonstration and lots of opportunities for questions.
Dates: (choose one)
Saturday June 25
Sunday July 10
Saturday July 16
Time: 9:30-12:30
Bring: your bee suit, pen and notebook, snacks and lunch (if you'd like to stay afterwards to eat). Water and iced tea provided.
For more information and directions contact Debra Roberts at 828-712-0880.

Asheville International Pollinator Week June 20th-26th

It takes just 21 days for a worker bee to hatch. That's what we're asking for you to attend the Quen of the Sun showing at the Asheville Fine Arts Theatre on June 21st from 7-9pm with a reception following the film at Laurey's Gourmet Catering, a quick walk across the street from the theatre...$1 per day of growth for these lovely creatures we call honeybees...This movie is moving and tells the amzaing story of how honeybees share their wealth and lives for our lives to bee abundant and rich in so may ways! Come dance the dance of the bees and celebrate them with us!

Todd Elliot will play a few honeybee songs with SJ Bee prior to the showing too!

One more thing...each attendee will receive a free copy of The Honeybee Fly Around Song DVD produced for The Honeybee Project!

Asheville International Pollinator Week June 20-26th

For more information click here!

Top Bar Hive & Song

Sam Comfort of Anarchy Apiaries provided an engaging presentation in the use of Top Bar Hives, Warre Hives, small cell beekeeping, queen rearing and merry making beekeeping. Sam wove his personal journey with bees into the larger fabric of bee keeping in America. He concluded his talk with original songs celebrating bees and other insects to the delight of the crowd!

Top Bar Hives, June BCBC Meeting

While we usually don't have a June meeting,
we decided to take advantage of having
Sam Comfort of Anarchy Apiaries
in the area.

We've asked Sam to talk to us
about a different type of beekeeping:
TOP BAR HIVES.

To learn more, click here.

Or join us on
June 6, 2011 at 7:00 pm
in the Fellowship Hall at
Groce United Methodist.

Groce UMC
is at 954 Tunnel Road in Asheville.
See the wncbees.org page for directions.

May BCBC Meeting

On May 2 join us for our monthly
Buncombe County Beekeepers meeting.

Wayne Smith will present on
"Plants for Your Bees and You!"

We also plan to spend some time
in questions and answers
with an expert panel...
a great opportunity for our newest beekeepers
as well as those of us who are
coming up with new questions all the time.

May 2, 2011 at 7:00 pm
in the Fellowship Hall at
Groce United Methodist.

Groce UMC
is at 954 Tunnel Road in Asheville.
See the wncbees.org page for directions.

Speaking of plants,
have you seen the tulip poplars blooming?
Are you ready for the spring honey flow?

APRIL BCBC MEETING

At our April meeting CARL CHESICK,
one of our BCBC directors,
will talk about NATURAL BEEKEEPING
and the strategies and issues facing
beekeepers who are keeping bees
without chemical interventions.

We will also talk some about
one of our favorite springtime activities:
CATCHING SWARMS!

April 4, 2011 at 7:00 pm
in the Fellowship Hall at
Groce United Methodist.

Groce UMC
is at 954 Tunnel Road in Asheville.
See the wncbees.org page for directions.