Buncombe County Beekeepers Club (BCBC) A Website by Beekeepers in Western North Carolina, for Bee Keepers everywhere!

Packages are arriving this weekend!  We will be picking up packages early Saturday morning. two packages will be installed in the hives at the Lords Acre on Saturday, April 14th at approximately 10:30am.  The time may fluctuate a bit depending on what time we can actually get away from the pickup point, and get back to the Lords Acre.  Come help us get everything setup and bees back in the garden!  See you all Saturday!  Thank you! Scott Scott A Davis President – Buncombe County Beekeepers Club (BCBC) A chapter of the North Carolina State BeeKeepers Association Meeting the first Monday of each month at Groce United Methodist Church Tunnel Road Asheville, nc   828.712.6074   Catch the Buzz at www.wncbees.org    

  Hello Buncombe County Beekeepers, Hopefully the last of the crazy cold weather is behind us and your girls are doing fine.There has been plenty of warm days for them to start to get out and about. For the April meeting we will have the pleasure and knowledge  of our own member as well as NCDA Apiary inspector for our region Lewis Cauble come and talk to us about spring management. He will touch on.mites, feeding, swarm management, and capturing swarms and all things spring related to our bees. So bring your questions as well as your knowledge on how and what you do for all of the above so we might all learn from each other. Remember we meet at The Groce United MethodistRead More

Hello to all Buncombe County Beekeepers!   I hope all is well with you, and that your “girls” made it through the winter and are gearing up for spring.     The BCBC conducted our “hands-on” Bee School over the past weekend at Nesbitt Discovery Center, so we are expecting to see lots of new members at Monday’s meeting.  Be sure to look for new faces and make these future beekeepers feel welcome.     Based on the evaluation survey collected at the conclusion of the school, the responses of the participants were very positive.  It appears the new beekeepers walked away with a better understanding of beekeeping and now have the confidence to start keeping bees, along with the assurance that experienced beekeepers will be enthusiasticRead More

BCBC Meeting is this Monday,  February 5, 2017, at 7:00 @ Groce United Methodist Church,  Tunnel Road, Asheville, NC Greg Rogers, Master Beekeeper, friend and BCBC member will show his successful methods of queen rearing. Simplified! You said you wanted to raise your own queens…well?    

Hello BCBC members, Hope that you and your girls are doing well. We will be having our next meeting back at the church on Feb.5th Our long time friend and member/beekeeper Greg Rogers from Haw Creek Honey will be giving us another installment on Queen rearing. I am sure it will be informative and I hope to learn more as I feel that part of keeping our girls alive,healthy and strong is to be raising Queens that fit with our area. I hope that everyone who made it to the January meeting liked the location of our Bee School. Thank you for the feed back as we are working on getting any kinks out before February 24/25th Also a few thing I need to mention:Read More

DO NOT SHOW UP AT THE CHURCH- WE WILL NOT BE THERE. We will be meeting at: Martin Nesbitt Jr Discovery Academy         175 Bingham Road, Asheville Come early (6:30) to check out the school. Meeting at 7:00 PM Wehrloom Honey Owners If you have any question please contact me at 828 505 3494 or call /text 516 410 1581 Please note that we are using this meeting to show off to the club the location for our 2018 Bee School in February (24-25)

New Location for this meeting only!!!!   Hello BCBC members, I hope that your girls are doing well and you are all staying warm on these crazy cold days and night. We are getting ready to kick off our first meeting of 2018 and I am hoping that it will be a very informative year for us all. On January 8th we will have one of the owners of Wehrloom Honey from Robbinsville NC in Graham County come up and talk to us. Aron will tell us about their operation, how they started and grew, what sort of pest management they use and why and where they are going next. I  think it will be informative and fun and inspire us to be better beekeepers.AlsoRead More

Registration for the 2018 BCBC bee school is now open! You can read about the school and register at   https://wncbees.org/event/2018-bcbc-beginners-bee-school/   Scott   Scott A Davis President – Buncombe County Beekeepers Club (BCBC) A chapter of the North Carolina State BeeKeepers Association Meeting the first Monday of each month at Groce United Methodist Church Tunnel Road Asheville, nc   828.712.6074   Catch the Buzz at www.wncbees.org  

On Monday Nov. 6th, the last meeting of 2017 we had our annual end-of-year pot luck with 55 in attendance. So many dishes (and especially desserts) were made with more than a splash of honey. Thank-you! And thanks to those who remembered to bring their plates and cups to save from the landfill. Beekeepers are mindful. Dues for 2018: 19 members renewed and 6 new members joined. It’s easy to do online on the website, too. Elections: We were sad to see Vice President, Jennifer Blalock and Director Russ Jefferies “retire” from the Board as they reached their term limits of 2 years times 2. We are sure that there is a place for them on committees. Moving on Up: Mark Traub to Vice PresidentRead More

Hello Members, I hope that you and your girls are enjoying this warm weather and all are doing fine. As you know Monday Nov. 6th will be the last meeting of 2017 and we will be having our year end pot luck. So cook up a favorite dish to share maybe with honey in it. We will also be nominating and electing board members and directors whose terms are expiring. Also the board will be giving the club a year end financial report as to where we stand. Greg Rogers will be giving us a short recap of Randy Oliver’s study with Oxalic Acid. There is still time to let me know if you want to enter the Honey Contest and possible move on toRead More