DON'T FORGET TO REGISTER for the 2023 Extractaganza. If you have supers full of honey to extract, and don't own your own extractor, this is your opportunity to use an electric extractor to harvest your honey. We will have motorized extractors & uncapping stations set up. Members are invited to bring up to 4 supers to extract that day. Experienced beekeepers will… Read More »July Extractaganza
Randall Cass Iowa State UniversityBee Extension Specialist Join us in August for a fun talk from our keynote speaker Randall Cass who will share research that suggests beekeepers need to get stung with some frequency to avoid becoming anaphylactic. He’ll also share ISU's published research on the effect of prairie strips, which are in-field contour… Read More »August Monthly Meeting
Sign up for the EMBA's Friday shift at the Missouri State Fair in Sedalia. We need 10-12 volunteers to cover the morning and afternoon shifts. State Fair Tickets will be reimbursed if requested. You're also eligible to enter a drawing to win an observation hive (minus the bees). Plus free honey ice cream! Shifts 10:30… Read More »Sign Up for MSBA Booth at MO State Fair
Honey Harvesting Opportunity Bob Sears is a familiar name with the EMBA. He is the longtime Club president but is now retiring from beekeeping. He recently donated some extracting equipment and has also asked that we harvest and extract the honey supers from his hives. As with the equipment, all proceeds will be donated to… Read More »Honey Harvesting Volunteer Opportunity
Open Apiary times are an informal, unstructured gathering. 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 must be a member of a bee club, any… Read More »Great Plains Master Beekeeping Open Apiary August
The EMBA Harvest Picnic will be held on Sunday, September 10th from Noon till 4:00 PM at Emmenegger Nature Park located just down the road from Powder Valley in Sunset Hills. We hope all members and their families will come spend an afternoon sharing beekeeping stories. This is always a fun afternoon with good food,… Read More »Sept Fall Harvest Picnic
In addition to "This Month in Beekeeping", John Pashia and Ken Heitkamp will present how to make mead, a wine made from fermented honey. Mead is the oldest known alcoholic beverage (older than beer), discovered in clay vessels found in Asia to be ~9,000 years old and is mentioned in much of Nordic mythology. John… Read More »Sept Monthly Meeting
Open Apiary times are an informal, unstructured gathering. 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 must be a member of a bee club, any… Read More »Great Plains Master Beekeeping Open Apiary September
Our October keynote speaker will be William Hesbach. He'll discuss Winter Management: How honey bees thermoregulate and survive in cold climates. Bill Hesbach is the President of the Connecticut Beekeepers Association, a Connecticut native with a background in engineering where he teaches bee biology and various beekeeping methods at regional beekeeping club meetings. He's an… Read More »Oct Monthly Meeting
Fall conference is live and in person. It will be held October 13-14 in Springfield, MO at the Darr Ag Center on the MSU campus. Key note speakers Troy Hall of Hall Apiaries and Eugene Makovec of the American Bee journal will speak. More updates will be posted as available. Bio links below: https://mostatebeekeepers.org/troy-hall/ https://mostatebeekeepers.org/eugene-makovec/… Read More »Missouri State Beekeepers Association Fall Conference
