June 29, 2013

Illinois State Beekeepers Association 2013 Summer Meeting
The date and location has been set for the ISBA 2013 Summer Meeting.   It is being hosted by the Lake County Beekeepers Association and the ISBA.  The meeting will be held on June 29, 2013 (a Saturday) and will be located at the Holiday Inn Gurnee Convention Center (6161 West Grand Avenue, Gurnee, IL  60031).
See the below map for directions for the 2013 Summer Meeting
Heartland Apiculture Society  2013 Conference
July 11, 12, 13   Cookeville, TN
The Heartland Apicultural Society (HAS) 12th annual meeting will be held at Tennessee Tech University, Cookeville, Tennessee.

The  featured speakers for the conference are:

Jennifer Berry, Phil Craft, Debra Delaney, Kim Flottum, Jim Garrison, Jeff Harris, Jerry Hayes, Zach Huang, Greg Hunt, Wyatt Mangum, Tony Prettyman, Juliana Rangel-Posada, John Skinner, Jim Tew, John Timmons.

Topics already on the schedule include:
  • Basic bee biology
  • Sustainable beekeeping (several talks)
  • Urban beekeeping
  • Queen breeding and production
  • Non-grafting methods for raising queens
  • Setting up a small scale queen and nuc business
  • Candle and soap making
  • Producing comb honey
  • Making and using nucs
  • Small scale pollination
  • Setting up an online beekeeping business

For more information, click here to visit the HAS website.