Good Evening Fellow Beekeepers,

This Thursday, March 2nd 2017, is our club meeting. doors open at 6:30 p.m. meeting starts at 7:00 p.m. at 103 E. Main Street Otisville MI. Held at the Forest Township Hall. Our guest speaker Bob Hollis build a hive workshop, Leo Stevens and Dave Anthony doing how to install bee packages and how to split hives.

The final month to get your bee orders in. We order as a club through Golden Harvest / Bob Hollis dates April 15th and May 6th, who has two truck this year or Leo Stevens and Dave Anthony / AWS Bees date April 15th, who has one truck this year. Don Schrams has nucs also.

1. All orders must be in and paid in full by March 25th.

2. Any orders after those dates will pay the higher price.

3. Also you must be paid currently in our club dues to get the club price.

4. We voted to raffle off a hive at the Spring Conference in East Lansing.We will be looking for someone to paint it and another one to paint a design on it. Please see me at the meeting. Also we will need volunteers to help sit at the table and sell raffle tickets. Tickets will be $1.00 each or 10 for $5.00. Tickets go on sale March 1st.

Any one interested in helping with 2017 Bee Symposium? Hosting a Bee Symposium in conjunction with Mott Community College in Flint, MI on Monday, April 17th in the evening. We hope to have speakers presenting information about honeybees, native Michigan bees, and plants for pollinators. This would be good promotion for our club as well.

Our Meeting in March 2, will have a build a hive demonstration with Bob Hollis and side breakout of installing package bees with Leo Stevens and Dave Anthony.

Michigan Beekeepers Association Spring Conference March 10 & 11 in East Lansing at the Kellogg's Hotel & Conference center. Doors open at 8: 00 a.m. starts with guest speaker at 9:00 a.m. Vendors list is available on the michiganbees.org website under the conference tab. If you wish to order from any of the vendors please make sure to get your orders in by March 5th. so they will have then packed and ready for pick up at the conference.

Remember when ordering woodware from Bob Hollis make sure to give him 2-3 week notice with a phone call or text message week before our meeting to ensure your order will be ready for pickup and he will bring your orders to the club.

AWS BEES LLC Dave Anthony and Leo Stevens

Golden Harvest Bob Hollis

Huron City Bees Nuc's Don Schram

please think on you order and if you would like to place it please see
Barb at the meeting. If we order as a club we get a discount and the
club receive a kick back on our order.

Also remember that bees are can be ordered and must be paid for in full by March 25th 2017
Any bees ordered and by chance you may not need we can always sell them as we have a list
of beekeepers waiting.

Good Afternoon Fellow Beekeepers:

Now is the time to start feeding your bees to help build for the winter
months ahead. Everyone has their own preference for the winter; whether
it be newspaper and bag of sugar, candy board, candy pollen patty. Each beekeeper has their own way they feel it is right.

A reminder that our MBA (Michigan Beekeepers Association) Fall Conference is this week. The classes and speakers are amazing and very
helpful to beekeepers. If you would like to see more the schedule should be final by Wednesday and posted on the MBA website:

www.michiganbees.org

upper left corner you will see Fall Conference click on that and all the information will appear. You can get a small paraphrase on what the class holds. Also there will be an MBA meeting of all beekeepers, voting will be taking place by ballot until noon Saturday. Absent tee ballots should be available on the MBA website and should be received by Wednesday the latest.

Update on Wilda Dodder, founder of our Club. Wilda is doing good, up and around on her own and is ready for visitors. Please call ahead of time to make sure she is not in PT. Medi Lodge of Montrose 810-639-6171.

Mid Michigan Beekeepers Club Meeting is November 5th guest speaker is waiting to be confirmed. I will send out an email after this weekend with the additional information. We will have an update of the fall conference, and any changes made to the MBA office and by laws. Look forward to seeing you next week.

--
Barb Applebee, President
Mid-Michigan Beekeepers Club
www.midmichiganbeekeepers.com
or
www.midmichiganbees.ucoz.com

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Good Evening Fellow Beekeepers,
It is time for Mid Michigan Beekeepers Club meeting, Thursday March 5th, 2015
held at Forest Township Hall 130 E. Main Street Otisville MI. Doors open at 6:30 p.m.
meeting starts at 7:00p.m.

We will be taking Bee orders this month for AWS Bees, LLC, Golden Harvest Bob Hollis,
and Don Schram with his nuc’s.
Don has about 100 nuc’s for sale

Bob Hollis has orders for April 18th & May 2nd with possible opening on April 4th

AWS-Dave Anthony – Leo Stevens has bees available

Just a reminder that the final date for bee order for AWS must be paid for by March 25th, 2015. Bob Hollis would like his orders for April 4th & April 18th to be paid at the March meeting. Don Schram will also paid around that time as well.

A break out session for beginning / want to be beekeepers, who will meet in the kitchen unless there are too many then we will divide the hall up. Bring your note pads and questions to the meeting for questions and answers before we break for the night.

We will talk about the Spring conference coming up on



for more information go to www.michiganbees.org and in the top left hand corner you will find the 2015 conference, click on that and review the class schedules as they are posted and you can even register early for the MBA on line to save time and money.

We will be having a booth at the spring conference and we need volunteers to help out. I will touch base on this at our meeting. Don’t forget about the honey judging at the conference for comb, was, honey etc.

Kalamazoo Bee Club News & Updates

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** Just a month away!
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http://www.kalamazoobeeclub.com/bee-school-2015/Kalamazoo Bee School will be held on Saturday, February 21 -- just over a month from today . . . If you haven't registered yet, what are you waiting for? You know you want to join us for this full day of education, networking, and fun! Visit our website (http://www.kalamazoobeeclub.com/bee-school-2015/) to register online, or if you are unable to register online, contact Caroline Abbott (email: scabbott@sbcglobal.net | phone: 269-692-2328).

This year's Bee School offers a dedicated "Beginners Track" for new or wanna-bee beekeepers, a nice selection of topics for the intermediate and advanced beekeepers, as well as a handful of general interest beekeeping topics. We have finalized our schedule—it's available on our website or you can download it here (http://www.kalamazoobeeclub.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/KBS15_schedule.pdf) . The classes are clearly marked—all the Beginners Track classes are in one room, but broken into three sessions, the intermediate or advanced skills are noted with and asterisk on the schedule, and the rest are general interest beekeeping topics that everyone can enjoy. So take a look at the schedule and plan your day!
REGISTER NOW (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/kalamazoo-bee-school-2015-tickets-14509826281)

** Teacup Auction Donations
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http://www.kalamazoobeeclub.com/bee-school-2015/teacup-auction/The Tea Cup Auction is held at Bee School each year and is the Club's biggest fundraiser. It supports all of our programming as well as the club apiary.

We are accepting donations now through February 15. Please email Janet DeZwaan at za99@att.net to arrange making your contribution.

** Other Area Education
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There are several other educational beekeeping events coming up this winter and early spring you might want to check out:

** Holland Bee School
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Holland Area Beekeepers is holding their annual Bee School on February 7. Learn more here (http://www.hollandbees.org/) .

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MBA Spring Conference
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The Michigan Beekeepers Association's Spring Conference is March 13 & 14. MBA is celebrating it's 150 year anniversary this year! Learn more about the Spring Conference here (http://www.michiganbees.org/2015-spring-conference/) .

** Mountain Camp Winter Feeding
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It’s great when your bees provide food for you, but every so often in a beekeeper’s career, she provides food for the bees. There are a million opinions about whether or not one should feed bees throughout the year and a million and one opinions about how this feeding should happen. I’m simply going to explain one feeding method that we have tried this year, the reason why, and our experience with it thus far. [Read More . . . (http://www.kalamazoobeeclub.com/2015/01/mountain-camp-winter-feeding-method-quick-easy/) ]