2024 | February Meeting – Emergency Feeding and 2024 Bee Calendar – Online

You've voted: The February 2024 meeting will take place online and will be dedicated to the topics of emergency feeding and the bee calendar/ planning your 2024 bee season as a collaborative digital workshop. We will comply with the request not to hold the meeting on a weekend in order to reach as many of […]

2024 | March Meeting – Bee Calendar, Spring Clean-Up – Online

You've voted: The meeting in March 2024 will also take place online and will deal with the topic of planning the 2024 bee season and spring clean-up as a collaborative digital workshop. See you then! Click here for a short summary of our online workshops in February and March 2024.  

2024 | April Meeting – Hive Split

Sante invited us to his bee apiary to observe a hive split. More info in the newsletter. Click here for a summary of our 2024 April meeting.

2024 | May Meeting – Hive Inspection

Manny Carmel, United States

This meeting will be an in-person-meeting in Carmel. We will do a hive inspection, look at the development of a split that was done late April and just get together, talk and network. New-bees welcome! Please subscibe to our newsletter or contact us for further information.

2024 | June Meeting – The Falaha Center

Chester NY, United States

Aysha invidet us to see her beautiful homestead, the Falaha Center. She is in her 3rd year of beekeeping. We will be discussing hive set-up, hive inspections, do comments, critiques and just get together and talk about bees. You can learn more about her center here.

2024 | August Meeting – Merge Hives, Mite Treatment

Imagine you have just lost a queen or have a weak colony that may not survive the winter. The best thing to do now would be to combine two colonies. This is exactly what Gabriella and Eric will show us in our August session. We will also talk about mite treatment as the hives will […]

2024 | September Meeting – Winter preparation, feeding your bees

Hartsdale NY, United States

Fall is almost here and the bees are busy to prepare for winter: What is special about winter bees? How much food do my bees have, how much should I feed them, when and how long for? Should my bees overwinter in one or two boxes? How do I protect my bees from uninvited overwintering […]

2024 | October Meeting – Winter hive configuration

A question of philosophy and the discussion will likely be exciting: Should the hive be open or closed, wrapped or not, how do I prevent moisture and mold in the hive, how do I control varroa and small hive beetles in fall and winter, how do I know my bees have enough food? Please let […]

2024 | November – Oxalic Acid Treatment

Happy Thanksgiving! As we are likely to have the first winter frost at this time of year and the queen will briefly stop laying eggs, it's time to show how to do an oxalic acid treatment to get your colonies through the winter with a low varroa load. Please let us know if you would […]