Medina Beekeepers:Current events
2013 May 29 - MCBA Website Training
Wednesday, 7-9 pm
MCBA hosts an "open website" that any member can edit. You can ask questions on our website - or answer them. You can create a beeyard report, write a page about the latest pesticide research, comment about different kinds of beekeeping equipment, or just help keep the list of Current Events up to date. Our website depends on the effort of volunteers and will be as much or as little as we, the members, make of it. Mike Rossander will host an open session on how to use our website. We will set up your account, edit a page, start a discussion, create new pages and learn lots of tricks so you can get started making the club's website a better, more useful tool.
Location: Medina County Library computer room. The Computer Lab has 18 computers available first-come, first-served but you can also bring your own laptop and connect to the library's internet connection.
2013 June 1 - OSBA Summer meeting
Saturday, 9 am - 4 pm
The busy bee season has finally started, and OSBA summer meeting will be brimming with exciting classes for all levels of beekeepers, Hands-On Apiary, a variety of vendors, and of course lots of beekeeping fellowship.
Some of the specialized classes include:
- Going to the Fair (3 part series taught by Blue Ribbon prize winners)
- Hands-On Hive Inspections
- Three sessions on over-wintering, and of course
- Keynote Speaker, Dr. Greg Hunt (Purdue University) and Guest Speaker, Kim Flottum.
See www.ohiostatebeekeepers.org for details or q=&c=&ch= register online.
Location: The Prichard Laughlin Civic Center, 7033 Glenn Hwy. Cambridge, OH 43725.
2013 June 8 - Columbiana and Mahoning County Beekeepers Association Queen Rearing Class
Saturday, 8-4
Instructors for the class will be: Dan O’Hanlon, Gabe Blatt and Joe Kovaleski
For registration and further information contact: Don Kovach Kovach87@aol.com or by phone at 330- 272-3711
The class will be limited to 30 participants at a cost of $100 per person. Instructor-led classes will cover Queen and Drone Biology, Basic Trait Selection, Methods of Queen Production and Equipment Needs. Afternoon breakout sessions will cover: 1. Setting up of cell starters, cell builders, finishing colonies and mating nucs in the bee yard, so please bring your veil. 2. Demonstration and practice of the Doolittle Method – Grafting. 3. Demonstration and practice of the Cell Punch Method. Each beekeeper will receive Dr. Larry Connors’ Queen Rearing Essentials book, a grafting frame, cell bars, cell cups, grafting tool and cell punch kit. Lunch and refreshments will be provided.
Location: 322 S. Turner Rd., Austintown, Ohio 44515
2013 June 16 - MCBA Beeyard Session
Sunday, time TBA
Dan Purvis is going to show all of us how to start small, with just a very few colonies in the backyard, and raise big, fat healthy local queens of our own, so we can be much less dependent on having to get them from someone else on their schedule.
Location: In the MCBA beeyard
2013 June 17 - MCBA Monthly Meeting
Monday
6:30 pm - Beginner's half-hour - Dan Purvis will share queen care all season long tips for everybody, beginner and experienced. The Beginner half-hour this month will be in the parking lot across the street from our regular meeting room.
7:00 pm - We’re in luck in June because we’ve got a very special speaker coming to Medina. Dan Purvis, who used to be a commercial queen producer in Tennessee will be with us for the whole weekend. Dan raised thousands of queens, both at the consumer and Breeder level for many years, starting in Georgia, than moving a bit north. Dan’s run a successful queen business, and that’s what he’s going to talk about - his Successful Queen Business, “No Matter How Big” talk that was a series in Bee Culture magazine not too long ago.
You don’t want to miss this meeting. It’ll be one of the best of the year.
Also at this meeting will be our annual Plant Exchange. Bring one, take one.</br> Please label your plant with its variety and how tall it gets or spreads so we know where to plant it in our flower beds. Bring a plant that the pollinators love!
Location: In our regular meeting room at A.I. Root Co.
2013 July 15 - MCBA Monthly Meeting
Monday, 6:30 - 9:00 pm
Preparation for the Fair
We will be doing a thorough clean-up of the booth, organize the sales and display areas, hang up posters and beekeeping information, etc. Please bring cleaning products to the meeting - brooms, pails, paper towels, rags, etc.
Beginner Class
For the newcomers to the club, we will have you set up in a separate section to learn the fair booth procedures for selling, explaining the observation hive, and candle rolling instructions.
Pizza and soda will be served.
Location: Building 5 in the Medina County Fairgrounds (710 West Smith Rd in Medina - the entrance is across from the corner of W. Smith Road and S. State Road)
2013 July 17 - MCBA Beginner Class Harvesting Session
Wednesday, 7 - 9 pm
Syllabus tba
Location: In the MCBA beeyard
2013 July 20- Library Day
Saturday, times tbd but probably 10-2(-ish)
Details tbd
Location: Medina Library
2013 date tbd - Deadline for entries to the Fair
tbd, 4:00 pm
If you are entering honey, remember to sign up for all the honey categories, white, light amber, or dark amber, as you may not know what color your honey will be if you have not already extracted and bottled it. You may view all the entries, rules and enter on-line this year at www.medina-fair.com.
Location: Medina County Fairgrounds Main Office
2013 July 28 - MCBA Fair set-up
Sunday, 2:00 - 6:00 pm
Set up your entries for the Medina County Fair and bring your honey and hive products for sale. All entries must be in on-time and in compliance with the Fair's rules. Please have all your honey and hive products in by 5 so we can get them properly tagged and inventoried. The building closes at 6:00 pm.
Location: Building 5 in the Medina County Fairgrounds
Please note: The drop off hours for entering your honey/wax/baked goods into the Fair is noon – 4:00 pm at the Fairgrounds Main Office
2013 July 29 - August 4 - Medina County Fair
Monday - Sunday, all day
Buy and sell honey, candles and other bee products. Watch the bees in the Observation Hive. Roll a candle. Learn about bees and beekeepers, their lives and equipment. Sample all the great honeys produced in our area. Taste the difference.
Then go to see the rest of the Fair.
Location: Building 5 in the Medina County Fairgrounds
2013 August 4- Fair tear-down
Sunday, 6:00 - 9:00 pm
Tear-down and clean-up from the Fair. Pick up your entries and any unsold honey.
Dismissal time for your entries and our display is from 6 PM – 9 PM on Sunday, August 8th. Entries not picked up by 9 PM Sunday, will be donated to the Medina Co. Fair Board Auction for fund raising, unless previous arrangements are made with the Medina Co. Beekeeper’s President. No exceptions. Thank you for your understanding.
Location: Building 5 in the ections Medina County Fairgrounds
2013 August 5-9 - EAS 2013
The Eastern Apicultural Society's annual Conference and Short Course will be hosted this year by the Pennsylvania State Beekeepers Association at West Chester University. Read more at easternapiculture.org
Location: West Chester University, West Chester, PA
2013 August 19 - MCBA Annual Picnic and Pot Luck Dinner
Monday, 5:00 - dark
This is our annual club social event...burgers and brats cooked by your club president, a wide array of sides and desserts brought by your fellow club members and challenging games for all!
Location: Buckeye Woods Park Pavalion
2013 September 16 - MCBA Monthly Meeting
Monday
6:30 pm - Beginner's half-hour - Specific topic tbd. Bring your problems and we'll solve 'em. The Beginner half-hour is across the street from our regular meeting room.
7:00 pm - Speaker and topic tbd
Location: In our regular meeting room at A.I. Root Co.
2013 October 21 - MCBA Monthly Meeting
Monday
6:30 pm - Beginner's half-hour - Specific topic tbd. Bring your problems and we'll solve 'em. The Beginner half-hour is across the street from our regular meeting room.
7:00 pm - Speaker and topic tbd
Also in October, we need nominations for the Club's officers. All officers (President, VP, Secretary, Treasurer) and one of the three Directors are up for grabs. See the bylaws for a description of the duties of the respective officers. If you'd like to give back to the club, this is a great opportunity.
Location: In our regular meeting room at A.I. Root Co.
2013 November 2 - OSBA Fall meeting
Saturday, 9 am - 4 pm
See www.ohiostatebeekeepers.org for details
2013 November 18 - MCBA Monthly Meeting & Honey Harvest Analysis
Monday
6:30 pm - Beginner's half-hour - Specific topic tbd. Bring your problems and we'll solve 'em. The Beginner half-hour is across the street from our regular meeting room.
7:00 pm - Speaker and topic tbd
Also during the November meeting,
- We will vote on the club's officers for the next year.
- We will conduct our annual Honey Harvest analysis. Bring your notes about how many hives and how much honey you pulled off in the past year. We will look for trends by area and over time. Remember that we track new and established colonies separately.
Location: In our regular meeting room at A.I. Root Co.
2013 December 16 - MCBA Holiday Party (tentative)
Monday, 6:30 pm
Speaker and topic tbd
Location: In our regular meeting room at A.I. Root Co.
