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  • Honey Fest Sales Trends

    Honey Fest Sales Trends

    We need your honey! The signup form is here You need to be a paying member of the Guild to sell honey, but we’re pretty sure you’ll make more than

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  • Piping

    There’s an interesting discussion on Bee-L about piping (if you don’t know Bee-L you should check it out). In 1964 Harald Esch wrote the following: Harald Esch, 1964: Novices that

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  • More and better barriers

    More and better barriers

    This weekend the Apiary Committee put in posts for our new barrier between the apiary and the road. You can see the apiary on the left side of the image.

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  • Say hello to the new extractor

    In this archival video the Guild’s friendly president, Dave Harrod, gets Elliott and Aleicia to talk about the new extractor. As we mention in the video it’s an 18 frame

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  • 2023 Bee a Hero Grant from Planet Bee and Farnell

    2023 Bee a Hero Grant from Planet Bee and Farnell

    Our friends at Planet Bee are partnering with Farnell to offer grant opportunity this year. Farnell are the folks who make the Raspberry Pi computer. Grant EligibilityThis grant opportunity is

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  • Please, please fill out the winter loss survey

    Please, please fill out the winter loss survey

    The Penn State Center for Pollinator Research is now administering the annual winter loss survey for Pennsylvania Beekeepers. As you know, this data is tremendously helpful in assessing drivers of winter

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  • Fire Risk – Beekeepers be careful with your smoker!

    Fire Risk – Beekeepers be careful with your smoker!

    It hasn’t really rained in Philadelphia in over a month. Stuff is drying out. New Jersey is on fire. So, be careful with your smoker folks! You should have some

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  • Please fill out the winter loss survey

    The Penn State Center for Pollinator Research is now administering the annual winter loss survey for Pennsylvania Beekeepers. As you know, this data is tremendously  helpful in assessing drivers of

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  • Pollinator Grant Opportunity

    The GIANT Company and Planet Bee currently have a pollinator grant open with a quick turnaround time, but I wanted to send it your way in case you knew of

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  • What about these new memberships?

    What about these new memberships?

    So you may have noticed that our membership options have changed a little. Yes. Yes they have. We’ve written a few e-mails about this but essentially we need to update

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