Natalee Summers, our key note speaker this month, will discuss Spring management and supering. Natalee is a 16 year old beekeeper from NW Missouri. Her journey began in 2017, when her family started their apiary and business, known as Hitch Hive Honey. As the business grew, so did Natalee's fascination with the intricate world of… Read More »April 2024 Monthly Meeting
Open Apiary times are an informal, unstructured gathering of members of the Great Plains Master Beekeeping program. There will be brief demonstrations, questions and answers, and time to get hands-on experience with beehives. Open Apiary will count as 2 hours of field training toward your progress through the Great Plains Master Beekeeping program. All participants… Read More »April Great Plains Master Beekeeper’s Open Apiary Day
Our key note speakers will be Earl and Carol Hoffman, talking about "The Microbial Shield". Earl & Carol are second-generation EAS Certified Master Beekeepers and lifetime EAS members with over 32 years of experience teaching and coaching beekeepers. Together, Earl and Carol Hoffman operate Essential Honey Bees LLC, which raises queens, sells nucleus hives, and pollinates local… Read More »May 2024 Monthly Meeting
Do you want some hands-on experience with beekeeping experts on Saturday, May 18th, 2024? Join us for our open apiary day at our Danforth bee yard. We will be checking honey supers and reviewing the status of our hives. This is a great opportunity to look at all phases of bee development and do a… Read More »May EMBA Open Apiary Day
Open Apiary times are an informal, unstructured gathering of members of the Great Plains Master Beekeeping program. There will be brief demonstrations, questions and answers, and time to get hands-on experience with beehives. Open Apiary will count as 2 hours of field training toward your progress through the Great Plains Master Beekeeping program. All participants… Read More »May Great Plains Master Beekeeper’s Open Apiary Day
Open Apiary times are an informal, unstructured gathering of members of the Great Plains Master Beekeeping program. There will be brief demonstrations, questions and answers, and time to get hands-on experience with beehives. Open Apiary will count as 2 hours of field training toward your progress through the Great Plains Master Beekeeping program. All participants… Read More »June Great Plains Master Beekeeper’s Open Apiary Day
Our key note speaker this month will be Pamela J. Carter. Pamela is an American Honey Show Training Council member, an AHSTC Certified Senior Honey Judge, as well as a Welsh Certified Senior Honey Judge. Pamela will teach us how to prepare our honey and hive product entries for the Missouri State Fair coming up… Read More »June 2024 Monthly Meeting
Do you want some hands-on experience with beekeeping experts on Saturday, June 15th, 2024? Join us for our open apiary day at our Danforth bee yard. We will be checking honey supers and reviewing the status of our hives. This is a great opportunity to look at all phases of bee development and do a… Read More »June EMBA Open Apiary Day
Do you want some hands-on experience with beekeeping experts on Saturday, June 29th, 2024? Join us for our open apiary day at our Danforth bee yard. We will be checking honey supers and reviewing the status of our hives. This is a great opportunity to look at all phases of bee development and do a… Read More »June EMBA Open Apiary Day
Our guest speaker this month will be Jim Masucci, talking about Varroa Management. Jim is local to the St. Louis area and is both a honey bee researcher and sideliner. As a researcher Jim ran some of the largest field trials ever to develop new varroa control products for Monsanto/Bayer. This experience allowed him to… Read More »July 2024 Monthly Meeting
