Welcome to Honey and the Hive, LLC. We are a mobile beekeeping supply company distributing Brushy Mountain supplies and custom woodenware.
If you would like to place an order, please call Keith White, 804-690-9904 if you are south of the James River, or Doug Anderson, 804-501-8266 if you are north of the James River.
Meeting Reminder – Monday, October 8:
A separate email will be sent out soon to members calling for nominations for officers and standing committee chairs for 2019 – be on the lookout!
RPBBA invites anyone who makes Bee products (other than honey) to speak and/or bring product to the November meeting. It’s an opportunity for folk to show off their work and teach others how to make fun things to sell or give as presents.
If you are interested, please complete this form.
There will be no September meeting. Instead we will have the RPBBA Annual Members & Families Picnic! It is being held on Saturday, September 22nd from 4-8pm at Gregory’s Pond. Rain or shine.
Please bring your family or a plus one for a relaxing evening in a beautiful setting just around the corner from Rockwood Park.
The club will provide fried chicken, water and some sodas and paper products. Please bring a dish to share and a folding chair to sit on.
We will enjoy appetizers from 4-5:30 for the “tell your favorite or most outrageous bee story”, sit and enjoy the scenery and fish in the tranquil Gregory’s Pond time" time. If you play a musical instrument bring that too!
Dinner will start at 5:30pm and continue until everyone gets full or 8:00PM, whichever comes first.
Please RSVP by 9/18/2018 by submitting this form (click here). Directions to follow.
We look forward to seeing you all there!
This is just a friendly reminder that our July meeting is Monday, July 9th – our Club Social starts at 6pm, the meeting will start at 6:45pm.
Channel 6 News gave us some fabulous publicity for the Honey Bee Festival – here is the article: https://wtvr.com/2018/06/25/honey-bee-festival/
The Eastern Apiculture Society is having its annual conference August 13-17 at the Hampton Roads Convention Center. For more information, visit http://www.easternapiculture.org/
SPECIAL SPEAKER, PLACE & TIME
Monday, June 11th at 7pm
Powhatan Village Building Auditorium
3910 Old Buckingham Road, Powhatan, VA
Special Guest Speaker: Dr. Dewey Carson
It’s open to the public, but there will be a $5 charge for those who are not already a member of either Rockwood Park Backyard Beekeepers or Huguenot Backyard Beekeepers (the joint sponsors of this event.)
Dr. Dewey M. Caron
Emeritus Professor of Entomology & Wildlife Ecology, University of Delaware
Affiliate Professor, Department of Horticulture, Oregon State University
Background:
40+ years teaching, apiculture research and extension service
Cornell (1967-70)
University of Maryland, College Park (1970-1981)
University of Delaware (1981-2009).
In Bolivia, he keeps Africanized bees and teaches beekeeping in Spanish. [En Bolivia, mantiene abejas africanizadas y enseña apicultura en español.] In Oregon, he keeps 5 backyard colonies of European bees. He teaches Bee Short Courses and gives lectures to various bee clubs and state organizations. Over the last 50 years, he has served in numerous leadership roles in the Eastern Apicultural Society (EAS) and is currently the Advisor for EAS Master Beekeeper program.
