Hive Dive

This weekend, some generous club members will share their own hive inspection with new and prospective beekeepers. If you’re about to get your first bees, or if you’re still nervous about handling the bees you got and want to see how others do it, this is what you’ve been waiting for. It’s a free opportunity to see a hive inspection and handle bees with a more experienced ACBA member.

There are three events on Saturday, April 15, and two on Sunday, April 16, all around the Bay Area.

Club member Greg Mau is hosting a free event this Saturday to learn how to grow your own queen cells. “If you are want/need to learn how to handle and/or utilize queen cells to make queens, I will host a get together this Sat at my place in Fremont.  The goal would …

Join a bee inspection at our new club apiary! If you don’t yet have your first bees, or you’re still nervous about handling the bees you got and want to see how others do it, this is what you’ve been waiting for. It’s a free opportunity to see a hive …

Join Sung Lee for a mite treatment demonstration at the club apiary! Sung has over 80 hives and also manages many clients' hives. He has not lost a single hive by mites in the past three years since he implemented his own I.P.M. (integrated pest management). Sung says “bring your …

Help Phil Stob work on the new pollinator garden at the club apiary! We'll be hauling wood from the curb to the garden (get your steps in), leveling and arranging the edging, raking out the wood chips from the beds, adding wood chips to the pathways, turning over the soil …