Topic: Recognitions and Prizes 9/18 SnoKing Monthly Meeting

Time: Sep 18, 2024 06:30 PM

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The rain is back in the Greater Seattle area and it's looking like a cooler, wetter fall than 2022 and 2023. We will take time to discuss our bees -- after all, beekeepers always talk bees -- but first we will take time Wed to recognize SnoKing's achievements in the last year and particularly at the Evergreen State Fair that ended only 2 weeks ago. For other clubs and organizations, May or June is the time for recognitions and awards, but for beekeepers, it comes at the end of our active season -- September/October. SnoKing applied for the WASBA Large Club of the Year award and nominated someone for Beekeeper of the Year award. In filling out all that paperwork, we realized that we need to take time to celebrate our accomplishments as a club and as individuals.

A lot of that recognition is owed for public outreach events and we will show pictures of us at the Evergreen State Fair and talk about our booth and 11 days of presentations and public interaction there. Also, we will be drawing for prizes this Wed; more on those and how the drawing will be done live at that meeting in the reminder email coming out this Wed 9/18 morning.

In this newsletter, we just want to showcase efforts made by club individuals in some pictures and by including an abridged version of the pages-long Club of the Year application that took weeks to put together and that made us realize what wonderful volunteers make up this club. Many do not appear in that list of outreach events and public impacts that SnoKing has had on both the beekeeping community and the non-beekeeping community. We are so impressed by the sum of individual accomplishments that we are listing them here right after these

very short but critical ANNOUNCEMENTS:

EXTRACTORS

Free extractor loan for members.  Extractors can be picked up in Granite Falls from Sandra Forrer 408-315-9565 dragonflysg4@aol.comdragonflysg4@aol.com, or  in the Maltby area from Eli Ocheltree 206-859-7392 eliochel@snokingbka.org.

CLASSES Journeyman and Beginner starting now

 Remember that current members of SnoKing can ‘audit’ (retake) classes for which they have already received a certificate (Beginner, Apprentice, Journeyman) at no additional charge.

SURVEY - SOCIAL EVENTS

https://surveymonkey.com/r/HHW3TSR OR

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/HBRTL8L

Questions about the survey? Call/text Myke Gheparde 425-501-8100 or email him at par.none@yahoo.com

Here are some of our 2024 accomplishments from Beekeeping Club of Year application just submitted:

Monthly club meetings, recorded and publicly viewable on SnoKing Beekeepers youtube

 channel

Club apiaries at Maltby and Granite Falls serving more than just SnoKing members with a season of Apiary Workshops – see www.snokingbka.org/calendar for individual dates as published, including:

Queen Rearing Workshop sessions May 11, 18, 25; June 1, 8, 15, 22, 29; July 6, 13

How to Inspect a Hive – Saturday mornings and Sunday afternoons May and June

Pollen Trapping and Varroa Treatments Workshops July/ August

2024 Accomplishments (cont.)

Presentations at all kinds of venues, just the ones not to a bee club or bee club members: youth groups, schools public and homeschool, garden clubs, community centers and events, including:

Heidi Goodgion: 5 separate hands-on apiary workshops with Marysville Homeschool Organization; Endeavor Elementary) April 16 and 22, 2024 (with Pat Wehmeyer); Hawthorne Elementary Garden Club (with Eli Ocheltree) May 29, 2024

Randy Green: Marysville Homeschool Organization (above); 4H group February 15, 2024; Duvall Farmers Market May 9, 2024

Eli Ocheltree: Elevate Martial Arts Summer Camp, Woodinville, July 10 & 31, 2024

Heidi Goodgion, Randy Furnas, Eli Ocheltree: Bayside Neighbors Association, Everett Spring community fair. March 30, 2024

Colleen Ebken: Presentation to Nordland Garden Club April 10, 2024

Michael Duncan: May 3, 2024 Teaching homeschooling farm group at Woodpecker Hill Farms, Jacie Anunson, Poulsbo 

Rebecca Glaze - Return of the Salmon, Sultan, WA, September 23, 2023

Rae Shepherd – July 26, 2024  Presentation and honey tasting at Cogir of Bothell Memory Care

Pat Wehmeyer & Eli Ocheltree– The 30th Anniversary of The Beekeeper’s Apprentice, Left Coast Crime Convention, April 10, 2024

2024 Accomplishments (cont.)

Evergreen State Fair:

A whole team of volunteers ran our booth and 11 days of dozens of 20-30 minute presentations given by the SnoKing Evergreen State Fair team on the Agricultural Outdoor Display Stage August 22-27, 29 ,30 & Sept.1 & 2. Including Myke Gheparde, Michelle, Sandra Forrer, Jo Dietzel, Dennis Dietzel, Heidi Goodgion, Patty Stiemert, Eric Stiemert, Randy Green, Jennifer Murray, Pat Wehmeyer, Myung Hong, Ty Carlson and others.

  At the Indoor Honey booth, 5 members of SnoKing Beekeepers processed and judged honey, wax and other bee products using the Danish Judging System with training and supervision by Tim Ade: Carol Moore, Sandra Forrer, Nathan Jensen, Randy Furnas, Eli Ocheltree

Tim Ade did live bee presentations 3 times a day in the Bee Tent at 11AM, 1PM and 4PM each day the fair was open, 8/22-8/27, 8/29-9/2.

Chris Vigars & Randy Green: staffed our booth, Pollinator Fun Fest, Olympia, WA, June 22, 2024

  And many other members did public outreach that we could not include in the application, but we would like to recognize that they are also part of what makes SnoKing the most dynamic, interactive bee club around!

SnoKing also had to submit 10 of the recipes we collected from our members, which we will publish in future newsletters as space permits.

It was also required that we submit names of 80% of our members that are WASBA-certificated. Please note: we released names only and no personal information other than what is already in WASBA databanks.

The Evergreen State Fair Schedule of presentations the SnoKing Fair Team did is pictured here:

We will talk more at the meeting on 9/18 this Wednesday, including about what's going on in our hives right now.

CALENDAR of UPCOMING EVENTS:

9/16 Journeyman starts

9/17 Beginner Class starts

9/18 SnoKing meeting

9/28 Saturday - Return of the Salmon booth, Sultan, WA

10/2 Trophallaxis

10/3 Apprentice Class starts

10/4-10/6 WASBA Conference, Lynnwood, WA

DISCUSSION GROUPS

10/2/2 6:30PM – 8PM Trophallaxis first Wednesday meeting for Journeyman, Masters, and those who have taken or are taking the academic portion of Journeyman. To join the discussion, email Eli eliochel@snokingbka.org for Zoom link.

Master Beekeeper Certificate at Cornell University

    Cornell is still offering 33 1/3% discount for SnoKing members. Ask Eli Ocheltree for the discount code.

Apiary Managers:

Granite Falls - Ron - dizzybeeapiary@gmail.com 206-719-3604

Maltby - Eli - eliochel@snokingbka.org  206-859-7392

Policy Statement: There will be one essential rule at Trophallaxis and at any meeting or activity hosted by SnoKing Beekeepers. Ron Robinson stated it best for our Facebook discussion group, when he said:

"SKBA prides itself on the fact we are not like other groups on Facebook. We have become known as a safe group for keepers of all levels to comfortably ask questions and opinions without being blasted or publicly humiliated for asking what may seem like a very basic question to others. Any harassing, bullying, demeaning behavior, or such will not be tolerated. We have a zero tolerance policy and such behavior will result in immediate removal from club and all club activities."

We look forward to talking bees with you at 3rd Wednesday monthly meetings. Zoom link for this meeting:

Topic: Prizes 9/18 Monthly Meeting

Time: Sep 18, 2024 06:30 PM

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82628216806?pwd=4SMa3X2FxQqcP44mGKz4RuTR2Ljovn.1

Meeting ID: 826 2821 6806

Passcode: 664816

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The mission of the SKBA, a 501c3 member club of WASBA, is to provide educational opportunities, networking and support to beekeepers and people interested in honey bees, particularly those involved in small-scale beekeeping in Washington State west of the Cascades.

"We talk bees!" at SnoKing Beekeepers Association.