Friday & Saturday, February 19-20, 2010
9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
The Marriott, Cranberry Township, PA

Check out the write up (below) on BVABA's website: http://beavervalleybees.com/8.html

Registration Deadline is Feb. 12, 2010. If you missed the deadline call the Beaver Co. extension office and see if there are any openings. 724.774.3003 or 724.544.2900

Dr. Marion Ellis entomologist, University of Nebraska, Dr. Nancy Ostiguy, Professor at Penn State University , Dan Schmell, Penn State, John McKellup, Beekeeper and wildlife biologist, beekeeper, Craig Cella, bee inspector and entrepreneur and Jon Laughner CED Beaver County Cooperative Extension and Mary Alice Gettings R.D. C.D.E.will be the guest speakers.

The program will begin on Friday evening 7-9 PM.On Saturday February 21 Registration 8-9 AM program 9AM to 4PM.The program is sponsored by Penn State Cooperative Extension, the Pennsylvania State Beekeepers Association, the Beaver Valley Area Beekeepers and the beekeeping organizations of Western Pennsylvania. Cost of the seminar is $45, lunch and refreshments are included. Spouses and children 18 and under are $20.

Tuesday, February 16, 2010
2:00 p.m.
200 Ross Street, 1st Floor

Come and tell the planning commission to keep bees in the Burgh!

Please add your name to this form if you plan to come, so we'll have an idea of how many people will be there.
https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dFJBMzhkVnA5UVJMY19wWXJzcEJqcVE6MA

Please send letters of support to Burgh Bees' proposed amendments to:

Planning Commission
c/o Jason Kambitsis
Department of City Planning
City of Pittsburgh
200 Ross Street, 4th Floor
Pittsburgh, PA 15217

Tuesday, February 23
7 PM

Our meet ups are lively and libatious! Join us this month at Carson City Saloon on the South Side.

http://www.carsoncitysaloon.com

Saturday, September 5
9-1 PM
Farmer@Firehouse in the Strip

Buy Local Honey! Local Honey will be for sale at the Farmers@Firehouse market on Saturday, September 5. You'll be able to taste it before you buy it.

Tuesday, August 25
7 PM

Our meet ups are lively and libatious! Join us at a very special meet up this month as beekeeper Jana Thompson and husband Bruce graciously open their home to us in the Mexican War Streets. 1240 Resaca Place. Bring your own Booze!

Saturday, August 29
9PM - 12AM
Bakery Square

Burgh Bees, as a Sprout Fund project, will be on display at Sprout Fund's 7th Annual Hothouse event. Find out more information, including how to be a VIP at the party, on Sprout Fund's website: http://www.sproutfund.org/hothouse/home/.

Sunday, August 16
12-5 PM

Please join us at the Phipps Garlic and Tomato Festival to taste honey and talk about bees.

Saturday, August 15
9-1 PM

Please visit the Farmers@Firehouse farmers market this Saturday, where Burgh Bees will be featuring honey-based recipes. See you in the Strip.

NB: Open Country Apiaries are over for the season.

Mondays through August 10
12-2 PM

Anyone who is interested is welcome to join Robert and Jennie every Monday (weather permitting!) at their apiary in Aliquippa. Just call or email for directions and to confirm that they will be with the bees that day. beehappyhoney@gmail.com or 724-378-7204.

Sunday, June 21
1-3 PM

Join us as we open up our city hives to the public for our inaugural Burgh Bees Open Apiary. Details to follow in June's Bulletin regarding location. Register by emailing burghbees@gmail.com.

Tuesday, May 26, 7 PM
The Sharp Edge in Friendship

Burgh Bees is coordinating the first beekeeper meetup for Pittsburgh area beekeepers who want to troubleshoot about their existing hives. What could be more fun than hanging out with buzzed beekeepers?

May 24, Rain or Shine
12:30-4 PM

Burgh Bees will be at the 2009 Rachel's Sustainable Feast to celebrate Rachel Carson's birthday. Bring your appetite for sampling great local food and your love of the region to the 3rd annual Rachel's Sustainable Feast at the Rachel Carson Homestead in Springdale, PA. The best of Pittsburgh's chefs committed to buying locally, even more local farmers' markets, and as many of the region's great environment, conservation and fair-trade organizations and vendors as we can squeeze into the block party. The event is held in celebration of Rachel Carson's birthday (May 27) and helps connect people to all the great things going on in Pittsburgh's backyard.
http://www.rachelcarsonhomestead.org/RachelCarsonsLegacy/RachelCarsonLegacyEvents/tabid/126/Default.aspx

Saturday, April 25, 2009
1-3 PM
Baden, PA

Lee Miller, president of the PA State Beekeepers Assn., invites everyone to a "beginner beekeeper out yard meeting."

This is a good opportunity to learn more about managing bees and see a package of bees installed. We'll be there with veils, etc.

Monday, April 27, 2009
7 PM
Beaver County Conservation District Environmental Center
http://www.co.beaver.pa.us/Conservation_NewLook/index.htm

The next Beaver County Area Beekeepers Association meeting starts at 7pm on the 27th. This is a good chance to rub elbows with other area beekeepers and hear about what's happening with people's bees. The featured speaker is Nathan Emery, a keeper of bees in Lesotho, a tiny mountain country in southern Africa. Nathan will show photos and describe the challenges of beekeeping in a developing country with bees of a decidedly nasty reputation. This event is open to BVABA members.

Friday, April 17, 2009
10 AM
Braddock

We'll be removing a feral colony from a derelict building on the corner of 8th and Talbot in Braddock starting at 10AM this Friday the 17th. The colony looks pretty healthy, and since the structure is slated for demolition, it's time for them to move! We plan to cut the brood comb to fit deep hive body frames, secure them in empty frames with gum bands, and divide them up into "nucs" so we can requeen them with queens from Hawaii (due to arrive by post today!). All these new minicolonies will come out to our apiary in Aliquippa, so I can closely supervise queen acceptance and build them up. As the new queens start laying, we'll use the new colonies for Burgh Bee apiaries in town, as well as have a few (hopefully) for individuals taking the course.
If you want to check the job in Braddock out, feel free to come down! We'll have extra veils and gloves.

Friday, April 3, 2009
5-8 PM
David Lawrence Convention Center

Join us at this year's Farm to Table Conference, where we will be displaying our sweet wares! For more information go to this link:

http://www.pathwayswellnessprogram.com/farm_to_table_conference.html

March 23, 2009 at 7 PM
Penn State Agriculture Extension, East End Food Coop
400 North Lexington Street Pittsburgh, PA

April 1, 2009 at 7 PM
East End Food Coop
7516 Meade Street
Pittsburgh, PA


Join four of the founders of Burgh Bees-Meredith Grelli , Alex Grelli, Robert Steffes and Jennifer Wood-for an evening exploring the amazing craft of beekeeping. These sessions are designed to answer your questions about beekeeping and to help you decide if you want to participate in the full-year beekeeping training. We recommend you attend a Bee Curious? session if you have not been to visit an apiary and want to learn more about what it takes to become a beekeeper. These sessions are free and open to the public! There is no need to register for this session.

Join us to learn the basics of beekeeping!

Monday, March 30, 2009
Schenley Park Visitor's Center
6:30 PM

http://pittsburghparks.wordpress.com/2009/03/24/bioneers-monday/

Greetings Friends and Bee Lovers,

We're delighted to announce that Burgh Bees--the fledgling organization for urban beekeepers that we've been working on all fall and winter--will be holding two "Are You Bee Curious?" sessions in Pittsburgh and offering a year-long beginning beekeeping training, which
begins on April 5th. We will also be establishing two apiaries around the city: one in Braddock and the other in Hazelwood. So, if you've hesitated to dive into beekeeping because you don't have a place to put hives, your dreams have--or soon will--come true!

Attached is an announcement about the Bee Curious Sessions and the tentative schedule for the beekeeping training.

If you have questions or want to register for the training, please email us at burghbees@gmail.com. By emailing us there, you'll help to keep us a little more organized. And of course, please forward this along to anyone who might be interested.

These programs are supported in part by a generous grant from the Sprout Fund (www.sproutfund.org). Without their help, we wouldn't have been able to get this off the ground!

Hope to see you soon!

All the best,
Burgh Bees