Anne Frey from BetterBee – Guild Monthly Meeting – Third Thursday

Our October Meeting will feature Anne Frey who is the head beekeeper at BetterBee. We will have a fabulous door prize for those who attend in person.

Anne’s topic will be Work Smarter, Not Harder – Ergonomic Beekeeping – she manages 50,000 colonies for Betterbee all by herself so she’s had to come up with some innovative approaches as well as developing her powers of telekinesis. The talk is full of techniques to help people deal with seemingly heavy items such as supers, buckets, and other beekeepers. There’s a full segment about dealing with stuck frames through skill and knowledge rather than just prying harder. Also, ways to deal with very tall hives, very short hives, moving hives full of bees to another location, and much much more! (it may not be 50,000 but it’s a lot)

Anne lives in Greenwich, NY, and works as Betterbee’s Head Beekeeper, teacher, and videographer (catch her on Betterbee’s YouTube channel!). She first got bees in 1989 while getting a Biology degree, and like most of us, she was a “bee-haver” for just a few years, until she became a member of the local beekeeping club (the Southern Adirondack Beekeepers Association, or SABA), where she learned a lot from the other members and through club activities.

Anne worked her way up through the Club, becoming invaluable to its operation and leading the Annual Seminar and Bee School for many years. Beekeeping associations are so valuable to us because of the arranged speakers and events, but also because of the networking, support, and mentoring that comes about when people find a group near them. Anne became an EAS Master Beekeeper in 2002 and is still learning to this day. In her limited spare time, she reads sci-fi and rides her bike long distances.

We meet at 7pm at St. James School. 🐝

Passcode is ‘guildmeet’