Rick Coor, NCSBA President
From:president@ncbeekeepers.org
To:robertjjacobs@aol.com
Sat, Mar 30 at 6:32 AM
Dear Robert,
I am pleased to inform you of the following NCSBA operations presented to the members of the NCSBA.
The Summer Meeting
Get ready our three-day beekeeping conference over in Pinehurst, NC at the campus of Sandhills Community College to be held on July 11,12,13. The event will feature speakers, workshops, apiary demonstrations, an awards banquet, summer honey show and a bee bowl competition. The vendor market will feature any and everything that you need to keep bees with. Registration is expected to be online by mid-April.
The Midnight Bee Supply Bee Bowl
For the first time since 2018, the NCSBA will hold a bee bowl at the summer meeting (sponsored by Midnight Bee Supply). Chapter teams will test their knowledge in a competition with other chapter teams to see who will be named the NCSBA championship team. Complete details are available here. The limit is eight teams so register soon if you are interested.
Certified and Journeyman level instruction
The Master Beekeeper Program has developed an official course of study for both the certified and the journeyman levels. Chapters have begun using the certified course with great success. If your chapter already has a bee school curriculum, you may want to look at the course as a reference. If you are one of the over 40 chapters which did not hold a bee school last year, this course of study is ready to teach material. Please assist the members of your chapters in beekeeping by holding a quality bee school. For the journeyman level, there are a number of chapters planning journeyman level classes for this year. This includes Onslow County (June 1st), Hoke County (June 8th), Wake County, Tar River and Gaston County. The course can be taught by journeyman level beekeepers in your chapter. Those individuals will also receive credit towards the master beekeeper level. Please contact Eric Talley for a thumb drive with the information. Eric may be contacted at mbp@ncbeekeepers.org.
Born and Bred Queen Rearing Workshop/chapter level queen rearing program
A chapter level queen rearing program will challenge the members of a chapter to plan, organize and take their beekeeping to a new level. Success depends upon leadership, organization and procedures just as much as the actual queen rearing. However, if done with success, chapter members will in time be able to produce as many bees that they want to keep; all without buying packages and nucs. The only need to purchase queen bees from outside sources would be for stock development. If your chapter is interested in a chapter level queen rearing program, please let me know. You may also want to send one or more persons to the upcoming Born and Bred Queen rearing workshop. There will be a component of chapter level queen rearing included in the instruction.
Please share this information with your chapter members,
Rick Coor, NCSBA President