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• Intermediate Beekeeping Class

  • Start
    25 Mar 2025
  •  
  • End
    26 Aug 2025
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  • Schedule
    6 sessions
  • Location
    Montgomery County 4-H Center, Beech Room
  • Spaces left
    4

  Intermediate Class

  Instructor: Master Beekeeper Regina Rhoa

  6 sessions

  4^th Tuesday of the month

  Outline of topics and dates posted under Education page here

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• Beginner Beekeepers' Class #6

  • When
    15 Jul 2025
  •  
    6:00 PM
  • Location
    Montgomery County 4-H Center

  Class #6 - Weather permitting we'll spend the first hour in the apiary

  Please note the change in date due to the holiday for this month

  • Honey extraction - hands on extracting from our club apiary

  
  
  

  
  

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• General Meeting

  • When
    24 Jul 2025
  •  
    7:00 PM
  • Location
    Montgomery County 4H club and Zoom

   Speakers will present via zoom, so everyone will also have the option of attending via zoom if you do not wish to attend in person. Doors will open at 6:45pm and snacks will be shared.

  Mini Presentation:

  Olivia Kaltenbach, the PA Honey Queen, will
  present her roles as the Honey Queen and how to become the Honey Queen

  Main Topic:

  Landi Simone will be presenting "Product of the Hive"

  Landi Simone has been keeping bees for 27 years.  She has been an EAS Certified Master Beekeeper since 2004, and has served as Master Beekeeper Director and, for ten years, as Chair of the Master Beekeeper Certification Committee.  Landi owns Gooserock Farm in northern NJ, and makes her living from about 100 colonies of bees. She raises queens and sells overwintered nucs, produces varietal honeys and beeswax cosmetics and soaps. Landi’s practical approach to beekeeping stems from her life before bees; she’s a retired consulting engineer with degrees from Columbia and Rutgers.
  

  
  

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• MCBA Board Meeting

  • When
    12 Aug 2025
  •  
    7:00 PM
  • Location
    Zoom Meeting

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  MCBA members are invited to join our Board Meetings. Registration closes 2 days prior.

  Once registered you will get an email 2 days prior with the link to the zoom meeting. 

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• Beginner Beekeepers' Class #7

  • When
    19 Aug 2025
  •  
    6:00 PM
  • Location
    Montgomery County 4-H Center

  Class #7 - Weather permitting we'll spend the first hour in the apiary

  • • Yellow jacket and wasp invading the hives
    • Winter bees
    • Varroa mites and winter bees
    • Weak or failing queen
    • Merging weak hives before winter
    • Supplemental feeding

  
  
  

  
  

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• General Meeting

  • When
    28 Aug 2025
  •  
    7:00 PM
  • Location
    Montgomery County 4H club and Zoom

  Speakers will present via zoom, so everyone will also have the option of attending via zoom if you do not wish to attend in person. Doors will open at 6:45pm, snacks will be shared and a give away will be drawn.

  Mini Presentation:

  To Be Announced

  Main Topic:

  Parasitic mites of honey bees: Varroa for now, but Tropilaelaps for the future?

  Dr. Geoff Williams is an Associate Professor at Auburn University, where he directs the university’s Bee Center. Geoff received an undergraduate degree in animal biology at the University of Alberta (Canada), and then studied Nosema ceranae biology and management for his Ph.D. at Dalhousie University (Canada). He then jumped across the Atlantic to work on honey bee pesticide-parasite interactions and tropilaelaps mites at the University of Bern (Switzerland) and Chiang Mai University (Thailand) for six years as a research scientist. Geoff joined Auburn in late 2016; he is currently Vice President of the global honey bee association COLOSS, an apiculture subject editor for the Journal of Economic Entomology, and coordinator of the U.S. Beekeeping Survey.

  
  

  
  

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• MCBA Board Meeting

  • When
    9 Sep 2025
  •  
    7:00 PM
  • Location
    Zoom Meeting

  Register

  MCBA members are invited to join our Board Meetings. Registration closes 2 days prior.

  Once registered you will get an email 2 days prior with the link to the zoom meeting. 

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• Beginner Beekeepers' Class #8

  • When
    16 Sep 2025
  •  
    6:00 PM
  • Location
    Montgomery County 4-H Center

  Class #8 - Weather permitting we'll spend the first hour in the apiary

  • Winter prep
  • Feeding bees in winter
  • The winter cluster
  • Dead bees in winter
  • Mite counts and treatments
  • Getting ready for spring

  
  
  

  
  

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• General Meeting

  • When
    25 Sep 2025
  •  
    7:00 PM
  • Location
    Montgomery County 4H club and Zoom

   Speakers will present via zoom, so everyone will also have the option of attending via zoom if you do not wish to attend in person. Doors will open at 6:45pm and snacks will be shared.

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• MCBA Board Meeting

  • When
    14 Oct 2025
  •  
    7:00 PM
  • Location
    Zoom Meeting

  Register

  MCBA members are invited to join our Board Meetings. Registration closes 2 days prior.

  Once registered you will get an email 2 days prior with the link to the zoom meeting. 

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• General Meeting

  • When
    23 Oct 2025
  •  
    7:00 PM
  • Location
    Montgomery County 4H club and Zoom

  Speakers will present via zoom, so everyone will also have the option of attending via zoom if you do not wish to attend in person. Doors will open at 6:45pm and snacks will be shared.

  Mini Presentation:

  
  

  Main Topic:

  
  

  
  

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• MCBA Board Meeting

  • When
    11 Nov 2025
  •  
    7:00 PM
  • Location
    Zoom Meeting

  Register

  MCBA members are invited to join our Board Meetings. Registration closes 2 days prior.

  Once registered you will get an email 2 days prior with the link to the zoom meeting. 

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• MCBA Board Meeting

  • When
    9 Dec 2025
  •  
    7:00 PM
  • Location
    Zoom Meeting

  Register

  MCBA members are invited to join our Board Meetings. Registration closes 2 days prior.

  Once registered you will get an email 2 days prior with the link to the zoom meeting. 

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