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February 21, 2024

Free Beginning Beekeeping class this Saturday and Apprentice Level Course starts March 23rd!

What so bees use to style their hair?........ Honey comb!

Free Beginning Beekeeping Class! Saturday, February 24th 11:00 am to 1:00 pm, Swantown Inn, Olympia. Please RSVP at the Facebook Event page.

Get an introduction to the basics of what it means to be a hobbyist beekeeper before you decide to invest time, energy, and money in setting up an apiary.

This class will take about 2 hours, depending on the turnout and number of questions.

Spring Apprentice Level Course - Become an apprentice beekeeper in six weeks! Saturdays 10am to Noon, March 23rd & 30th, April 6th, 13th, 20th & 27th, in-person at the Swantown Inn Grand Victorian Ballroom, Olympia, WA - WSBA curriculum, teachers are Gail Booth, OBA Education Coordinator, Nathan Allan, OBA President, and Bryan Henn, OBA Mentorship Committee Chair

Register for the Apprentice Level Course (cost $50)
Please log in on the website after clicking the link, so it knows you are a current member. The fee is $50 and you must be a current member in the Olympia Beekeepers Association to register. The fee includes receiving your certificate on successful completion of the course.

If there are multiple people in a family wanting to be certified there is an additional admin fee of $25 ($10 for the certificate, $15 for the class fee = $25). Multiple people from a family are welcome to sit in on a class (our association membership covers a household with the right for one vote), but the fee structure only covers one person being certified.

Next Meeting
Monday, March 11th, 2024, 6pm to 8pm
Get details to attend the meeting in person or online

Special guest: Bri Price, Honey Bee Program Extension Coordinator, WSU Department of Entomology

Bri attended Oregon State University for both her undergraduate and graduate degrees and has strong interests in pollinators and education. She does extension and outreach about honey bees and other pollinators through seminars, workshops, bee program blogging, attending bee association meetings, and writing factsheets. She is also developing an improved Master Beekeeper Certification with the WA State Beekeepers Association.

Meeting raffle! Please bring raffle donations and $1 bills to the monthly meeting.

We will be selling raffle tickets for $1 each (cash only) at the beginning of meetings and during breaks. At the end, we will draw winning tickets. Winners will select a donated item until all the donated items are claimed. Past raffle donations have included:

small bee-related gifts
honey
extra chicken eggs from the backyard flock
plants grown at home
extra fruit or vegetables from the garden
old, clean bee equipment
bee magazines

Bee creative!

New York Times article "Polluted Flowers Smell Less Sweet to Pollinators, Study Finds - The research, involving primroses and hawk moths, suggests that air pollution could be interfering with plan reproduction.

Image of the top of a corkboard with a sign that says "Bulletin Board"

How to check out a book from the OBA library: 1. Check out during meetings & weekends 8-noon 2. Put name and number on card 3. OK to keep 2-3 months 4. Return to Nathan

"Ask a WA Beekeeper" Livestream - programs are each month on the third Thursday starting at 6:30pm. Here's the link: https://www.facebook.com/AskaWABeekeeper

We're looking for speakers and topic ideas for upcoming meetings. Please send your ideas to president@olympiabeekeepers.org

Members, do you have beekeeping equipment from your home apiary to sell? Advertise it here!

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