Events - Week View

Join us each month on Zoom to chat about beekeeping. Monthly Zoom Chat and Q & A for All New Beekeepers - just starting in 2025, or started in 2024 - 2023 This is a meeting for new beekeepers to bring your questions, concerns, and observations about your colonies. From colony growth, mite treatments, feeding, and swarming, any topics or questions are welcome! There will be beekeepers from your area clusters, area cluster leaders, and MDBA board members to help answer your questions.

Join other Central Cluster members for an online conversation about what we‘re doing and seeing in our colonies this month.

Please join us for the July General Meeting. Our guest speaker, Christine Kurtz the Petaluma Bee Lady, will be discussing common honeybee diseases and how to identify them in our colonies. Christine Kurtz is a seasoned and experienced beekeeper and has spent 17 years working with bees using a regenerative, treatment free, and all-natural management style. A longtime Sonoma County resident, she is familiar with the ebb and flow of the seasons and the cycle and challenges of the local honey bee. She is a strong believer in supporting locally adapted honey bees and helping people become better beekeepers. She also has created small queen rearing groups and encourages beekeepers to share their honey bees.

Now that the Spring nectar flow has finished, many of our club members are in the process of harvesting and processing their honey crop. Whether you’re new to the process of harvesting your honey or have years of experience and wish to share your tips and tricks, join us for a hands-on extraction party. We’ll be demonstrating various honey harvesting practices, including methods for clearing and pulling supers, and using the MDBA extractors to process the honey harvest from our very own MDBA apiary.