April 7 Installing Packages and Nucs

We’ll be talking about non-honey hive products like salves and tinctures as well a mead making. Details on the events page. If you have questions, are looking for a mentor, etc, come early to chat with other guild members. The meeting starts at 7:00pm. Please, respect the El Rio residents: Do not park inside the…

There won’t be a Guild meeting this month, but join us on 3 February 2016 for our first meeting of 2016! Happy new year!

The April 2017 Guild Meeting is tomorow starting at 6:30 PM. We’ll be doing a package installation demonstration for new beekeepers at 6:30, so if you’ve never installed bees into a hive, this is the demo for you. Dianah Phillips will also be discussing Top Bar hives. See you there!

The May guild meeting is this Wednesday. Our guest speaker this month had to reschedule, so we’ll be hearing form Karla about what she picked up at the “Organic/Natural Beekeeping Conference” in March, and from Marja about an all-day session she attended with Bernardo Niño from the E.L. Niño Bee Lab in the Department of Entomology at UC Davis. Also,…

Just a reminder that we will not be having a regular Guild meeting this month. Instead, the steering committee will be meeting to organize the meeting topics and speakers for the new year. We will resume our regular meetings next month on February 1st. If you are interested in getting into beekeeping, the February meeting is the…