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State
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NJBA
ANNUAL WINTER MEETING will be held
on
February
23, 2013 at the
Nottingham Fire Company
Ballroom
200 Mercer St.
Hamilton, NJ 08690
Entrance
fee is based on when you pay, NOT
when you register. Pay by Feb. 18,
2013: $27.00 per person,13 yrs.
& older; $15.00 per person 12
yrs. & younger. Pay AFTER Feb 18
or you are a non-NJBA member: $35
per person for all attendees.
To
register:
go
to www.guidiusa.com/njbawinter2013/register.php
and follow directions, or
send your name, email addreess,
phone number, US mail address plus
your 2013 membership
status along with a check to the
registrar: Pier Guidi, 25 D'Altrui
Driver, Hillsborough, NJ 08844-2310.
The registrar can be reached at
908.432.9405 (speak slowly, spell
your name, and repeat your phone
number twice).
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Scheduled
activities can be found on the branch
website.
The Northeast
Beekeepers Association of New
Jersey has a new home for 2012.
They will meet on the third
Friday of the month, in Room
135S (the Amphitheater) in the
Anisfield School of Business,
Ramapo College, 505 Ramapo
Valley Road, Mahwah. For
directions, click
here. For more
information, please contact
Frank Mortimer at frankmort@gmail.com
or 201 417-7309.
January
20, 2012: Friday, 7:30
p.m.
February 17, 2012: Friday,
7:30 p.m., Ramapo College of NJ,
505 Ramapo Valley Rd., Mahwah. Tim
Stewart of Stewart's Apiaries will
be our speaker. He will discuss
his experiences in running his own
business complete with over 100
hives, queen rearing, and nucleus
hive sales at the age of 17. His
hives are on the move throughout
New Jersey pollinating
blueberries, holly, pumpkins and
squash. He has been beekeeping
since the age of 11.
March 16, 2012: Friday,
7:30 p.m., Ramapo College of NJ,
505 Ramapo Valley Rd., Mahwah. We
will be screening The Vanishing of the
Bees. An award winning
documentary film about CCD, it
follows commercial beekeepers
David Hackenberg and Dave Mendes
as they strive to keep their bees
healthy and fulfill pollination
contracts across the US.
Scheduled activities
can be found on the Northwest
Jersey Beekeepers Association
website, click
here.
February
9, 2012: 7:15 p.m. to
8:45 p.m. Meeting at the Old York
Cellars Winery. The meeting will
center on a video featuring a
master beekeeper instructing how
to perform a split and the
biological reasons why the split
process works. Refreshments will
be served. Click
here, for address and
directions.
 April 21, 2012: 10:00
a.m. at Echo Hill Park, NWNJBA Bee
Yard at Deer Path Parkm 119 West
Woodschurch Road, Flemington
08822). This will be will host a
spring meeting featuring a review
of springtime activities and
installation of a new package of
bees at the club hives.
July
28 to August 4, 2012: Warren
County Farmers' Fair,
Harmony Township.
August,
2012: County
Fairgrounds, South County Park,
Route 179, Ringoes.
For
Sussex County Beekeepers Association
website, click here.
January ,
2012: General membership
meeting in the Administration Building
of the Sussex County Fairgrounds
Administration Building, Augusta.
Topic will be making mead.
February
18, 2012: Saturday,
general Membership Meeting, Sussex
County Fairgrounds Administration
Building, Plains Road, Augusta. Topic
to be preparing for fair honey
competitions by Angelo and Anna
Trapani.
March 10,
17, 2012: Saturdays,
"Introduction to Beekeeping" short
course at the Sussex County Fairground
Administration Building. Rain date
March 24, 2012. Details on
registering, cost and what the course
includes will be posted on the Sussex
website when available.
May 19,
2012 : Field day, hands-on
spring management, location to be
determined.
June 2,
3, 2012: Field day, local
queen breeding. Rain dates, June 9,
10, 2012.
July 7,
29, 2012: Field days. Fair
prep and honey harvest demonstration.
July 22, 2012: New
Jersey State Fair - Sussex County Farm
& Horse Show Booth Setup 1 meeting
at the Sussex County Fairgrounds in
the Richard's Building. Time to be
determined.
August 2,
2012: New Jersey State
Fair - Sussex County Farm & Horse
Show complete Booth Setup.
August 3
through August 12, 2012: Sussex County Fair.
(Sussex County Farm and Horse Show)
Annual Honey Show judging on August 3,
2012. Bee information booth with bee
products, observation hive and bee
cage. Honey show entries due at Sussex
Fairgrounds by 10:00 a.m., Friday,
August 3, 2012. For entry form,
classes and details will be posted
when available.
September
16, 2012: Joint Meeting
(SENY & SCBA) at the Brodheckers,
Noon, bring a chair and a dish to
share, directions at brodheckerfarms.com
October
16, 2012: Honey Festival at
the Fairgrounds.
For Essex
County Beekeepers Society website, click here.
Essex
County Beekeepers Society (ECBS)
meets at Essex County
Environmental Center (ECEC) at
621B Eagle Rock Avenue in
Roseland, NJ 07068.
February
18 & March 3 , 2012:
Saturdays, Garibaldi Hall, Essex
County Environmental Center, 621B
Eagle Rock Avenue, Roseland, NJ 07068.
Snow date March 17, 2012. Tentative
Field Day in April, 2012 TBA. Basic
Beekeeping short course. This course
will take you through a full year of
beekeeping, and teach you everything
you need to get started, from
equipment, through management,
biology, pest control, and harvest.
Focus is on IPM (Integrated Pest
Management). Please go to the Education page
for complete details.
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For Central
Jersey Beekeepers Association website,
click here.
March 2: Friday, 7:00 p.m.
Membership meeting at Rutgers
Cooperative Extension of Monmouth
County, 4000 Kozloski Rd., Freehold.
State Apiarist Tim Schuler will speak
on "Keeping Your Bees Alive".
Refreshments will be served.
Please
note that South Jersey will also
hold "Flash Meetings" periodically
through the season at members' homes
as opportunities arise. They will
cover specific tasks and will be
announcied to SJBA branch members
with short notice via email.
Attendance will be limited and
require RSVP. Further details will
be made available to branch members
as they are available.
July 14,
2012 9:00
AM – 12:00
PM Topic:
“Honey Harvesting”
Location: Home of Tom
O’Keefe, 122 State Street, Glassboro, NJ
08028.
Tom will be demonstrating proper
selection of frames for harvesting,
decapping techniques and using an
extractor.
August 4,
2012 9:00
AM – 12:00
PM Topic:
“Getting Your Bees Ready for Winter”
Location: Home of
Eloise (Lou) Naylor, 209 Hickory Lane,
Moorestown, NJ 08057.
We will be discussing how to “take care
of the bees that take care of the bees
that go into winter” along with some
feeding guidance and winter hive set-up.
August 11,
2012 8:30
AM – 3:30
PM Topic:
NJBA Annual Picnic & Auction
Location: Ewing Senior and
Community Center, 999 Lower Ferry
Road, Ewing, NJ 08628
Find used equipment bargains, sell
equipment you no longer need, have some
good food, and enjoy great company with
your fellow NJBA beekeepers as you talk
about bees all day.
September 8,
2012 9:00
AM – 12:00
PM Topic:
“Feeding”
Location: 4-H Nature
Preserve, 3944 So. Black Horse Pike (Rte
322), Williamstown, NJ 08094.
We will show various feeding methods,
including winter emergency feeding. We
will have multiple feeder styles
available to look over and will discuss
the pros & cons of each.
October 2,
2012 7:00
PM – 9:00
PM Topic:
“Bee in Shape”
Location: Gloucester
County 4-H Center, 1200 N. Delsea Dr.,
Building A, Clayton, NJ 08312.
Sheryl Markley will show us simple
strategies to keep your body strong and
prepare for safe spring hive handling.
She will give some specific exercises to
keep the core muscles and arms and legs
strong, and demonstrate proper body
mechanics for working with hives.
October 13,
2012 8:30
AM – 4:00
PM Topic:
NJBA Fall Meeting
Location: TBD
Guest Speaker: Dennis
vanEngelsdorp,
November 13,
2012 7:00
PM – 9:00
PM Topic:
“Gifts from the Hive: Candles”
Location: Gloucester
County 4-H Center, 1200 N. Delsea Dr.,
Building A, Clayton, NJ 08312.
Tom Sheppard will demonstrate getting
your wax prepared and clean for making
candles. He will also show various
candle mold styles.
December 4,
2012 7:00
PM – 9:00
PM Topic:
“Business of Beekeeping”
Location: Gloucester
County 4-H Center, 1200 N. Delsea Dr.,
Building A, Clayton, NJ 08312.
Stephen Kozachyn, SJBA 1st Vice
President, will discuss setting up a
business including a discussion on
insurance.
January 19,
2013 6:00 PM –
10:00
PM Topic:
“Member’s Winter Banquet”
Location: Martin’s
Custom Catering, 311 Route 40,
Landisville, NJ
This will be a joint banquet for all
members of the South Jersey Beekeeping
and Jersey Cape Beekeeping branches.
Come out for a great evening of good
food and great fellowship with your
fellow southern New Jersey beekeepers.
Meetings are held
every third Thursday of the month
(except for July and December) at 7:00
PM at the Cape May County Extension
Office, 355 Court House/So. Dennis
Road (Route 657), Cape May Court
House, NJ. Click
here, for directions.
January
19, 2012: 7:00 PM. General
membership meeting.
July,
2012: Cape May County 4H
Fair.
October,
2012: Cape May Court House
Harvest Fest.
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January
20, 2012: 7:00 p.m.
Membership meeting at the Kemmerer
Library, 19 Blue Mill Road, Harding
Township. (For GPS users the town
could be listed as either New Vernon
or Harding Township.) The topic will
be "Winter Bee Feeding" presented by
Charles Isley, president of the
Northwest branch. For directions, click
here.
February
17, 2012: 7:00 p.m. General
membership meeting, Chester Library. A
hive will be assembled, and where to
locate your hive on your property will
be discussed.
March,
2012: Chester Library. The
topic will be spring feeding and, for
our ambitious beekeepers, how to
prepare your bees for Ross Rounds.
April,
2012: Short beekeeping
course and a demonstration on hiving
packaged bees for those members who
have purchased pacakged bees through
the branch.
July,
2012: Morris County 4H
Fair, Chubb Park, Chester.
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