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Buncombe County Beekeepers Club Articles
FW: [BCBC Members] PICNIC!!!
Hey all you wonderful beeks! I hope everyone has had a great summer and their girls faired well! Thanks to all those great folks who volunteered at the fair. Everything seemed to go smoothly and there was a great turn out for entries into the honey products contest....
BCBC Workshop this Saturday 9-14-19
This Saturday 09-14-2019 10 am to Noon, at the BCBC Apiary at the Root Cause Farm (formally The Lord's Acre) (directions at the bottom of this page): It is time to do another sugar shake to evaluate the effectiveness of the Apilife Var mite treatments. We will also do...
BCBC Picnic Sept. 15
Buncombe County Beekeepers Picnic September 15th from 1 – 4pm at Root Cause Farm (formally The Lords Acre). Members and family are all invited. Bring: a generous side dish or two to share, a chair if you don’t want to sit on a bench, Port-O-John available BCBC...
No September Meeting 2019
Good evening BCBC members, I hope that your girls are doing well. Remember to check their stores and feed if necessary. They can go through a lot this time of year. You want them to be loaded up for winter. Also I hope that you have been checking the mite load...
08-31-2019 Apiary Workshop
08-31-2019 Workshop at Root Cause Farm (formally known as The Lord's Acre) This Saturday 10 am to noon, at the BCBC Apiary we will apply the final Apilife Var mite treatment on all of the hives and talk about feeding your bees during the dearth and fall build-up. We...
08-17-19 BCBC Apiary, Treatments and Feeding
Want to learn how to use a natural mite treatment in our bee yard this Saturday? We will use ApiLifeVar and Formic Pro if the weather forecast allows. (Under 85 degrees). 08-17-2019 Mite treatment and feeding during the dearth, 10 AM to Noon The Lord’s Acre is now...
BCBC Member Extraction Demo This Tues
Do you want to participate in the whole honey extraction process? BCBC is hosting an educational, honey extraction party for this Tuesday 08/13/2019, 6:00 pm. We will be extracting the honey of the club’s apiary on Root Cause Farm (renamed from The Lord’s Acre)....
08-03-2019 BCBC Apiary Workshop
08-03-2019 Workshop at TLA This Saturday 08-03-2019 10 am to Noon, at the BCBC Apiary at the Lord's Acre (directions at the bottom of this page): We will do a quick inspection of all of the hives and talk about feeding your bees during the dearth and I will answer...
August BCBC meeting next Monday August 5th 2019
Good evening BCBC members, I hope that you and the girls are al doing well and will be enjoying the break from the oppressive heat we have been having.I hope that you will all be coming to next Mondays meeting on August 5th. We will have Karen Stegall come out and...
Need Extraction Party Host
On Saturday 07-20-2019 10 AM to noon, at the BCBC Apiary at the Lord's Acre: (Joe Jenkins Road, Fairview, NC) Three hardworking people showed up. The weather was sunny and hot. We inspected all of the hives and nucs (A Nuc is a Nucleus hive.) and they are all...
Next Apiary Workshop 7-20-19 (not this Sat)
CANCELED This Saturday 07-06-2019 at the BCBC Apiary at the Lord's Acre CANCELED We realize many will be away for the July 4th holiday. Next workshop 7-20-19 Upcoming workshops at the BCBC TLA bee yard this summer. 10 am-noon until further notice. 07-20-2019 Possible...
Certified Test given July 10, sign up
TAKE THE TEST WITH US JULY 10 Dear BCBC Members and invited WNC members of other Chapters on the ladder for the Initially Certified Practical Test in NCSBA’s Master Beekeeper Program. The 30 minute written Initially Certified test (50 multiple choice and T/F)...
