March Newsletter The Madness is Setting In! |
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Introduction Course The first Intro Course is in full swing, more than half through it. This class has been one of the highest attended courses so far! If you missed out on the Spring course, we will have sign up ready next month for the Summer class. There will be a registration link in the next newsletter and on our Home page on our site. Stay tuned and if you'd like to attend again feel free. | | |
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Monthly Meeting/Hive Dives March 27th, Monica Schmitt will be presenting on making products of the hive. She will cover all the different products you can produce using materials out of the hive. This will lead up to the next workshop, learning to produce your own products. | | |
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Mission Beelieve Store May 18th, the Therapeutic Bee House will have ribbon cutting, for everyone to attend. The farm will be open to walk around and explore. There will be volunteers to teach the public about the workings of the colony and the affects honey bees have had on them. You will also be able to see the inside of the Bee House and get lessons on how it works. | | |
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West Virginia Spring Conference April fifth through the sixth, Mission Beelieve will be attending the Spring Conference. We will be advocating for the program and vending. There will be great speakers and other venders attending the event. A few of our partners are excited to attend, hope to see you there! | | |
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What's Happening in the BeeYard Spring is starting to bud and pop for parts of the country. That means swarm season and splitting will be upon us soon. Make sure to have your equipment ready or fall prey to march madness. Pollen is starting to come in droves and soon will the nectar. This will lead your colony to start booming, like the picture on the left. To avoid early swarms, you can preform a hive body rotation. A hive body rotation is when you take the lower empty hive bodies and rotate them to the top. During the winter your cluster has migrated to the top of the hive, where their food stores were. They will leave your bottom hive bodies empty with space to store and the queen to lay. This prevents congestion inside the colony leading your colony wanting to swarm early on. Taking this pre-emptive task into consideration will alleviate any unwanted stress. Drones are being reared. But there's still not an abundance of them for queens to get properly mated. Give them a few more weeks and everyone will be ready. The queens and drones. Hopefully you are getting early April showers to help produce your plants' nectaries. If you are make sure those supers are ready and that you have enough! That being said, welcome to March madness! Just the beginning of the Spring madness of Beekeeping! | | |
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Donations Mission Beelieve and its Partners are ever growing! We are starting to receive a lot of new Sign Ups and our first Partners are starting their third season! We have been able to raise enough money to maintain the organization but need assistance expanding the program. We are currently finishing off the therapeutic bee house and already gearing up for our next project. Mission Beelieve is going to construct a Honey House for our Partners to use. A Honey House is used to provide a sanitary environment for someone to harvest their honey. Honey extraction equipment is expensive, especially for a new beekeeper. Our goal is to relieve the stress of purchasing the equipment and providing an adequate room to harvest their honey. We would also like to keep providing textbooks to our new Partners. We have an average of 50 new Partners before our Short Course. The price of textbooks books adds up, hindering our chances to expand the program. Mission Beelieve would be grateful for its community to donate, to allow us to keep providing the essentials for our men and women. They sacrifice their lives and time for us. This is the least we can do in return. | | |
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