Bristol County Beekeepers

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Extractor for rent
Stainless steel, hand cranked Dadant Ranger extractor
available to extract your shallow and medium size frames.
My ‘fee’ is (5) pounds of honey and a clean extractor!
If you are interested, please contact me at either
508 823 6836 or GGBoyd at TMLP dot com.
Thank You!
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The Sat. workshop was rescheduled and was on Sunday June 26th in East Freetown.  

  This enabled people to attend the MASS Bee meeting on Sat.    The hive opening was followed by a pot luck lunch and a swim in the pool.  We  checked on an older hive as well as a package from this year.

Both hives were doing well, [...]

Last indoor meeting of this winter.   We had a very good workshop on Sunday at Jeani’s.  We can review it at the meeting. 

Other things on the agenda include – how to make creamed honey, making chunk honey, and having very nice looking honey jars to sell or give away. 

I will also bring a simple solar [...]

The weather looks ok for the workshop  and pot luck starting at 11:30 at Jeani’s.

Please join us for our first hands-on workshop of the season! See how experienced beekeepers handle hives.

Everett Z gave a talk on this at the April meeting – a lot of the ideas came from Ray M.   The written version was copied from the RI beekeepers website – per Everett’s suggestion.

Ther best time to do this in New England is the last half of May.

Here is a recap on how to [...]

The bee packages will be available at Bristol Aggie between 2 and 4 PM on Sat April 10 for those who have ordered them for the first delivery.

Dear Beekeeper:
> The Apiary Inspectors of America and the USDA-ARS Beltsville Bee
> Research Laboratory are seeking your help in tabulating the winter
> losses that occurred over the winter of 2009-2010. This continues the
> AIA/USDA survey efforts from the past 3 years which has been important
> in quantifying the losses of honey bees for government, media, [...]

Native Pollinator Workshop April 24 1-3 FREE – Historic Westport Town (Poor) Farm

 
http://www.thetrustees.org/things-to-do/southeast-ma/native-pollinator.html
 
 

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Early Pollen

Bristol County Beekeepers Association

 www.BristolBee.com

February 2010

President’s Message:

 
Spring has arrived.   After a weekend with 7” of rain here, the sun returned and it was about 70 degrees.  The ice in the cranberry bog ponds has gone out and the bees are flying.

We had a chance to look in our hives [...]