Linn Benton Beekeepers Association
Local Learning, Support & Fun
This months speaker will Dewey Caron. He will be talking about the Annual Bee Survey. Please plan to attend to get more information so that you can take part in the survey this year.
We are back to in person meetings!!! Temporarily we will be meeting at the Riverside Community Hall, the address is: 35293 Riverside Dr, Albany, OR 97321
There will be no Zoom option for this meeting since there is no wifi at the building.
A talk given by Priya to the Lane County Beekeepers Association on Honey Bee Nutrition. Talk was presented on 6/20/2020. To view click here.
For beginning beekeepers, bee biology, hive equipment, how to get bees, managing the hive, and more. Must be a member of LBBA, otherwise the course costs $25 (the cost of an annual LBBA membership). A book on beginning beekeeping is included in the course.
Andony Melathopoulos, from OSU’s Department of Horticulture, will speak on “The (considerable) obstacles to building pollinator habitat in Western Oregon (and where we might get started). “
Why isn’t there more pollinator habitat in Linn and Benton County? Why aren’t the right of ways full of flowers, why aren’t acres of new hazelnut and hemp fashioned with pollinator hedgerows around the headlands, why are managed forests not plugging more bee plants into their plots? This talk explains what the obstacles are and offers some modest suggestions on how we might get around this.
Meadmaking
This months speaker will be Mark Luterra speaking on making mead. There will be samples to taste!