The last PSBA-sponsored beginning beekeeping class of the spring is coming up:
When: April 17 & 18 (Sat & Sun), 12-4 pm each day
Where: Meadowbrook Farm, North Bend
Cost: $30
See Meadowbrook Schedule or contact Bob Combs.
Archive for March, 2010
Final Beginning Beekeeping Class
Sunday, March 21st, 2010PSBA’s First 2010 Apiary Work Party!
Thursday, March 18th, 2010Drop by the PSBA Apiary at the University of Washington Arboretum between 12:00 and 3:00 on Saturday, March 20, for our very first work party of the year!
This is a great opportunity for new beekeepers to check out over-wintered hives and to help inventory and prepare our woodenware for the coming season. You’ll be able to ask some of the Association’s most experienced beekeepers your pressing early-season questions and get some hands-on experience with the tasks you’ll need to perform on your own hives each spring. Spare equipment has sometimes been given away to lucky volunteers at this work-party in the past, so don’t miss it!
Brian Allen will lead this work party (206-973-7374).
KUOW: Varroa Mites
Thursday, March 18th, 2010PSBA’s own Bruce Becker was featured in this 3/16 report on KUOW:
Pesky Parasite Devastates Honeybees on Vancouver Island
March Meeting
Wednesday, March 17th, 2010Tuesday March 23
Beginners instruction (6:30-7:15 pm): How to install package bees and resulting hive management.
Main meeting (7:30-9:00 pm): Dave Hunter (Hunter’s Mason Bees): Importance of mason bees and how to raise them.
Dave has been working with scientists for two years on raising optimally healthy mason bees Presentation will be 25 minutes followed by Q&A.
Facebook Fan Page
Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010Join the Puget Sound Beekeepers fan page on facebook: