- Our last big honey selling event of the year will be at Awbury Harvest Festival. We need volunteers (sign up on the event page) and we can probably use more honey.
- Don’t miss our next monthly meeting – virtual only this time – We’ll be hearing from Dave Hunter from Crown Bees about solitary bees.
- Penn State Extension invites you to participate in the 2024 Beekeepers Survey. The purpose of this survey is to make sure the Penn State Extension is developing products that meet your needs. We’re asking for your input. The survey should take approximately 5 minutes to complete.
- Pennsylvania State Beekeepers Annual Conference is coming up! The conference is great for all levels of beekeeper and it’s in beautiful State College, PA! This year it features Hillary Kearney and Fred Dunn!
- Speaking of the PSBA they are looking for a treasurer. Let us know if you’re interested and we’ll pass your contact info on to them.
- A SARE grant for beginning beekeeper training is available. They are offering extensive beekeeping training and a number of additional tools to follow up with you and see if these tools help beekeepers stay involved. Please contact Tiffany Ayres (717) 968-9359 or Saybees.apiary@gmail.com
- Our esteemed member Jane Tausig is retiring from beekeeping at the end of this season. She has a complete apiary including all 8 frame medium boxes, a Long Langstroth hive and 2 nucleus hives, corresponding medium and deep drawn comb frames, and new frames with wax foundation, some new plastic and many foundationless frames. She has kept up to 4 hives with this equipment. The sale includes one thriving, healthy colony and a Dadant motorized 6 medium frame or 3 deep frames extractor, observation hive, various tools, varroa testing, oxalic dribble kits, and more. Everything a beekeeper would need to begin or expand an apiary. For sale as a package only, not interested in selling piecemeal. Please contact jetausig@gmail.com
- We have some fabric panels set up along the road to help separate the bees from people at Awbury. We’d are commissioning an artist to paint them. Could that artist be you? Please contact us if you’re interested.
