Linn Benton Beekeepers Association
Local Learning, Support & Fun
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!
This months speaker will be Thad Starr from Pleasant Hill.
He will give a brief history of VSH queens. Their benefits, advantages and how they overcome mites. Also, the advantages of fall requeening.
This months speaker will be Jeff Green from the Oregon Department of Agriculture. He will be speaking on Oregon honey extraction and labeling guidelines and regulations.