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

Hello BCBC members, I hope that this email finds everyone and their girls doing well and staying safe. We are working on online meeting but have not finalized the format yet. So as of now we are not going to have our May meeting next Monday evening. Please join Scott and Shaneka as they are hosting Wednesday evening Zoom Q&A  sessions. If you are going out to the CHBR anytime this season please practice social distancing and remember to wear a mask under your bee suit. Also we will be posting times for you to come out and help in the club apiary so you can also help out there as well. If you have any concerns please feel free to  reach out as weRead More

You are all invited to our weekly Q & A Sessions. Webcam is not required. Come ask questions!  When: Apr 15, 2020 07:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)  – This is a RECURRING WEEKLY MEETING! EVERY WEDNESDAY THROUGH THE END OF MAY!  Register in advance for this meeting: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/uZckde-rrjopP5KmY8i8Scgo2j0OSw-8aw  After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.  Webcams are NOT REQUIRED, nor is a membership to Zoom or anything else.  For privacy reasons, when you join (either via phone or computer audio), everyone will be muted initially. Questions can be submitted via chat/text to the hosts.  This is a learning opportunity in progress. We expect to get through our first conference. In the future we will be havingRead More

Host-Shifts and Honey Bees: Lessons From COVID-19: https://entomology.ces.ncsu.edu/2020/04/host-shifts-and-honey-bees-lessons-from-covid-19/?src=rss  

  Good evening BCBC members First of all we are hoping that you and your loved ones are safe and stay safe during these turbulent times (bees included).    As of today we will be suspending our monthly meeting until we, as a planet, get the corona virus under control. We are abiding by the standards set by the CDC on gatherings of people in light of the COVID-19 virus. We are taking your health and safety as a priority…please do the same.   The board is working on setting up some online and virtual meetings using zoom or another platform, as we still want to keep everyone excited and learning more about better bee keeping. We will let everyone know via emails when weRead More

Good evening BCBC Members, Sorry about the delay in sending this as Marc was going to send out the meeting reminder as we were going to be doing a CPR class. But we had a little snafu and we will be talking bees all night tomorrow. I hope that you can come and particulate. See you tomorrow.. Meeting starts at 7:00 but fell free to come early and chat with your fellow members. Groce Unitd Methodist Church Tunnel Road. Asheville, NC Mark Traub  

Hello BCBC members, I hope that 2020 will be a great year with all your bee keeping endeavors..We will be having our first meeting of the year on January 6th at the Groce United Methodist Church Tunnel Road Asheville. Meetings start at 7:00 but we encourage you to come early to talk with your fellow club members. We will be starting the year off with a talk and class on mead making..Here is a little about the speaker and her talk:   Amber Shehan from Pixie’s Pocket as she guides you through the steps it takes to start a small batch of mead, how to know when it is ready to bottle, and the bottling process. This demonstration is great for anyone interested in learningRead More