February Guild Meeting

Our monthly Guild meeting is this evening. Come by to tell us how your bees are doing! We’ll have special guest speaker Aiden Wing from Wings of Nature Bees talking about queen rearing. See you there!

Our July Guild meeting is tonight: https://santacruzbees.com/event/july-2016-guild-meeting/ We have a great speaker lined up, Hamutahl Cohen, who is a Ph.D. Student in Environmental Studies at UCSC. Her research looks at how agricultural practices and urbanization impact pollinators. She’s conducting research on bee-microbe interactions in urban gardens and farms along the Central Coast of California. She’s worked with honey bees…

The February Guild Meeting is this Wednesday. We have a great speaker from UCSC – Christof Bernau – coming to talk to us about bee-friendly plants. Also, if you’re thinking of getting into beekeeping, this is the time of year to get started! Come to the meeting at 6:30, where you’ll have an opportunity to…

The September 2016 Guild Meeting is tomorrow night. In addition to our usual agenda items, we will hear from UCSC graduate student, Monika Egerer. She’ll be discussing her research on the ecological complexities of urban agriculture in the California central coast. Check out the meeting agenda here. Note: to accommodate Monika’s schedule, we’ve changed the format…

The April guild meeting is this Wednesday. In addition to the regular topics, we’ll be discussing splits. Also, please be sure to note the parking information on the meeting page. At the March meeting things got a bit tight in the Lenz lot, and we almost blocked in some employees. Andrew Lenz, Jr., the owner, has told us…