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SARE

SARE (Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education) page has been updated.  Please check SARE under education link

Club Meetings

Next Club meeting is Tuesday, May 11th.  Check meetings and events for more details

Intermediate Beekeeping Seminar

The Intermediate Beekeeping Seminars are geared towards the continued education of experienced beekeepers. Beekeepers who are entering their 2nd season will also benefit from attending. Stay tuned for Fall seminars possibly in October or December.

This summer we had a very successful seminar on Extracting Honey. Pat and Jim Haskell presented a wonderful program on extracting honey. Pat is an EAS Master Beekeeper and is responsible for pulling together the Northern Virginia Teaching Consortium. Together with Jim, they run a whole bunch of hives in Northern Virginia and in Page County, VA. Pat has been instrumental in helping to organize the Prince William Beekeepers Association and remains a good friend and supporter of our club.

We also had another successful seminar in June on  Making Overwintered Nucs with Karla Eisen, John Strecker and friends.  We were delighted to have guests from Howard County Beekeepers, a few folks from West Virginia, and Nevin Rank of Honey Rustlin Farms attend.  Note that Nevin also makes some of the custom woodenware discussed.  Find him here: http://www.honeyrustler.com/

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We hope to continue to offer intermediate and advanced seminars in the alternative months to our regular club meetings.  In order to do this, we will need more of YOU the membership to help run our regular beekeeping club meetings, come up with ideas for programs, etc. We need to to do two things:

1) keep reaching out to and teaching new beekeepers via our introduction class and  our regular club meetings, and

2) continue to increase the education of existing beekeepers, in part through the advanced beekeeping seminars.

We need to continue to do both of these things and we hope that more people will respond with ideas for programs AND step up to help put them together.  All ideas welcome.  Please contact one of the PWRBA club officers to discuss any ideas you have.

Field Days

Thanks to everyone who helped make our Spring field days such a success.

Anyone interested who wants to host a field day in their apiary please feel free to do so.

If you need help or support, contact one of PWRBA officers and we can help you.

Worm Wrangling: Or, Why I Love Keeping Worms More Than Keeping Bees

The PWRBA SARE grant is mentioned in this article from Mother Earth News online.

Worm Wrangling: Or, Why I Love Keeping Worms More Than Keeping Bees.

The Virginia State Beekeepers Association

Title: The Virginia State Beekeepers Association
Location: Blue Ridge Community College, Weyers Cave, VA.
Link out: Click here
Description: Fall 2009 meeting will be November, 7, 2009 at Blue Ridge Community College, Weyers Cave, VA.

Contact Keith Tignor at 804-786-3515 for details or see http://www.virginiabeekeepers.org/

Date: 2009-11-07

New Location for PWRBA

Manassas Church of the Brethren (MCOB) located at 10047 Nokesville Road (Route 28) in Manassas

Manassas Church of the Brethren (MCOB) located at 10047 Nokesville Road (Route 28) in Manassas

Thanks to the efforts of Gary Harris, our club meeting location has changed beginning with our Jan., 2010 meeting. Starting Tues., Jan 12th we will conduct PWRBA meetings at the Manassas Church of the Brethren (MCOB) located at 10047 Nokesville Road (Route 28) in Manassas.

There is plenty of parking and you can avoid stairs entirely if you enter from the bottom entrance of the church.

We will meet in the fellowship hall downstairs which has 60 person capacity and convenient amenities adjacent to the room.

The new facility is very environmentally conscientious. We will make all efforts possible to use washable plates, cups, etc. during our meetings. Or you may consider bringing your own personal mug to meetings for drinks.