Thurston County Fair OBA opportunities; volunteer at the booth, enter your honey into the taste test, or sell your honey
A special thank you to our President, Nathan Allan, for organizing and shopping for our annual club picnic at the Freedom Farm. He grilled hamburgers and hot dogs all evening in hot temps (mid 90s!). Despite the heat, we had over 40 members and families turn out for the picnic. Thanks to all who attended, and thank you, Nathan!
The Fair is in 2 weeks!
We're looking forward to representing bees and beekeeping in Thurston County with a new and improved OBA bee booth, observation hives, and honey.
We still need a few volunteers!
Want to help us create a fun and educational experience for fairgoers?? We need volunteers, mainly during the Fair's evening hours.
Working at the Bee Booth
Hang out at the booth, introduce people to honey bees, help them participate in the taste test, and sell honey and t-shirts. We need at least 2 volunteers at a time. There are multiple time slots (2-4 hours long) over the 5-day event, as well as an on-call list.
You get free-bees! Please stop by Swantown Inn before the Fair to pick up your t-shirt, volunteer pin, and ticket to the Fair.
Participate in our honey taste test
We will be selling honey at the Fair. If you are interested in selling honey from your apiary, we have 2 options for you:
We sell it at the bee booth - If you have honey in 1-lb. Queenline honey jars, we will buy it for the going wholesale rate of $6 per jar. You can put your own label on the jar, and we will put an OBA club sticker on the opposite side.
To sell your honey to OBA, please contact David at treasurer@olympiabeekeepers.org.
We hand out your contact info - Add your name and contact information to a list of members selling honey. We will make copies of the list available to fairgoers. Add your name to the list
Please note: You must be an OBA member to sell your honey through OBA. Also note: If you volunteer for the bee booth at the Fair, you can bring your honey and sell it while you're there!
No meeting in August! We will see you again at our next meeting on Monday. September 9, 6 p.m. at Swantown Inn
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