If you have a Facebook profile, please “Become a fan” of the OSU Honey Bee Lab’s Facebook page. We’ll be using it to announce honey sales and other events.
Update: The OSU Honey Bee Lab Facebook page can now be accessed at: http://www.facebook.com/beelab
The participant registration packet for the OSUE–TCBA Spring Beekeeping Workshop is available here:
The vendor registration packet for the OSUE–TCBA Spring Beekeeping Workshop is available here:
The Ohio State University Honey Bee Lab and Tri-County Beekeepers’ Association Spring Workshop will be held Friday & Saturday, March 5 & 6, 2010, at OSU’s Fisher Auditorium and Shisler Center at 1680 Madison Ave., Wooster, OH. The program will start on Friday evening at 6:00 p.m. with tours of the OSU Beekeeping Museum, at 7:00 p.m. Dr. James E. Tew will speak about “Good Bees in Bad Places” and concurrently Ms. Kathy Summers on “Bee Culture through the Years”. After the program there will be a social hour from 8:00 to 9:00 p.m. with cookies and beverages being served.
Saturday, March 6, 2010 - Dr. Dewey Caron, keynote speaker, will start he morning by speaking about “CCD & AHB: Not Everything is All Bad”. Other speakers will include Barb Blochester, Ohio Department of Agriculture, Kim Flottum, Bee Culture Magazine, Dr. Joe Latshaw, Latshaw Apairies, Morgan Taggart, OSU Extension.
Some topics include: Making Jams & Jellies, Cooking with Honey, Divisersified Sideline Beekeeping, Urban Beekeeping, Reading Frames, Beekeeping Without Chemicals – Can it Be Done, and more.
This year we will again have the ever popular Basic Beekeeping track – this is for people who are thinking about becoming beekeepers or who have just started. The Kids Program will be hosted by the Lorain County Beekeepers and TCBA will again have their Practical Applications Room.
Many vendors will be at the workshop, so be sure to bring your lists along. We will post them as they register.
At the workshop there will be the baking contest, guessing contest, and door prizes will be given away throughout the day.
Those who want to purchase lunch we will have a choice of hot lunch or boxed.
Registration will be $35.00 per person pre-registration and $45.00 walk-in registration. The registration packet will be posted within the next 2 weeks. For more information contact us.
The Auburn University Beekeeping Symposium will be held on Saturday, February 6, 2010 from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the AU Lowder Business Building, 415 West Magnolia Ave., Auburn, AL.
The keynote speaker is, Paul Jackson, Chief Apiary Inspector, Texas Apiary Inspection Services. Mr. Jackson will talk on Africanized Honey Bees and Inspecting Hives/Reading Frames. Other speakers include Dr. James E. Tew, ACES Specialist in Beekeeping; Sallie Lee and Phillip Carter, ACES; Dennis Barclift, Apiary Section, AL Dept. of Ag & Industries and many others.
Some topics include Cooking with Honey, Gardening, Giving Talks to Schools, Raising Queens and Taking Bees out of Houses and others.
There will be a Basic Beekeeping track for people who are interested in beekeeping and not sure how to get started or just beginning in beekeeping. This will taught by the Alabama Beekeepers Association.
Registration is $17.00 per person which includes lunch hosted by the Alabama Beekeepers Association. For more contact information contact us.
Download the pdf registration packet.
The updated dates are as following:
****COLUMBUS AREA****
December 2, Wednesday
USAC Hidden Benefits Fair
Nationwide & OH Farm Bureau 4-H Ctr
2201 Fred Taylor Drive
11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Dec 16, Wednesday — NOTE ADDRESS CHANGE
OSU Extension Annual Conference
Ramada Plaza Hotel & Conference Ctr
4900 Sinclair Rd (I-71 & Morse Rd), Columbus, OH
8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
****WOOSTER AREA****
November 24, Tuesday
Honey Bee Lab (next to ATI’s Student Activities Center)
10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
December 5, Saturday
ATI Halterman Hall Lobby
Hours: TBA
December 8 & 9, Tuesday and Wednesday
Honey Bee Lab (next to ATI’s Student Activities Center)
10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
If you have any questions please contact us.
