OUR MEETINGS
Yes... we are still meeting on the 3rd Thursday... every month! Check Facebook and this website for updates. You don't need to ask, text, nor call to ask if there is a meeting. If we are not having a meeting we will post on Facebook, this website, and/or email you that meeting has been canceled or if anything changes. OTHERWISE SEE THE CALENDAR BELOW for all meetings in 2025.
APIARY or FIELD meetings: will be announced at the regular business meeting where sign-up is required. Field/Apiary Meetings are reserved for members in good standing and who have signed up at the business meeting just prior to the scheduled field meeting (Unless approved otherwise by the Apiary Chairman, President, and/or Apiary land owner).
APIARY or FIELD meetings: will be announced at the regular business meeting where sign-up is required. Field/Apiary Meetings are reserved for members in good standing and who have signed up at the business meeting just prior to the scheduled field meeting (Unless approved otherwise by the Apiary Chairman, President, and/or Apiary land owner).
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MAY EVENT/MEETING:
Thursday, May 15, 2025
Event/Meeting description:
A Night of Music, Anarchy, and Bees
Bonus: Everyone who attends this meeting and who fills out the form available will receive a voucher for the "save the bees" FSBA Florida Specialty plate (a $33 value). We are told that this also gives you a free membership in the FSBA. Forms will be available at this meeting.
TOPIC: Swarm the State!
SPEAKER: Sam Comfort
He will also have some HONEY and CANDLES for sale!
BIO: Sam Comfort (founder of Anarchy Apiaries) is a renowned treatment-free, pioneer of natural beekeeping known for his innovative, bee-centric approach to natural and treatment-free beekeeping and raising locally adapted queens. His engaging, down-to-earth speaking style makes complex topics approachable, sustainable practices, and a master of alternative hive styles like top-bar and horizontal hives and small-cell hives.
Sam brings years of hands-on experience and a unique perspective on queen rearing, genetic diversity, and cultivating resilient, locally adapted bees. Sam's focus on fostering self-sustaining colonies is both inspiring and practical for beekeepers of all levels.
His passion, humor, and wealth of knowledge will leave everyone inspired to explore new possibilities in treatment-free beekeeping.
This is your chance to learn from one of the most innovative minds in beekeeping and gain insights you can use in your own apiary. Let’s gather, learn, and celebrate the art of sustainable beekeeping!
A Night of Music, Anarchy, and Bees
Bonus: Everyone who attends this meeting and who fills out the form available will receive a voucher for the "save the bees" FSBA Florida Specialty plate (a $33 value). We are told that this also gives you a free membership in the FSBA. Forms will be available at this meeting.
TOPIC: Swarm the State!
SPEAKER: Sam Comfort
He will also have some HONEY and CANDLES for sale!
BIO: Sam Comfort (founder of Anarchy Apiaries) is a renowned treatment-free, pioneer of natural beekeeping known for his innovative, bee-centric approach to natural and treatment-free beekeeping and raising locally adapted queens. His engaging, down-to-earth speaking style makes complex topics approachable, sustainable practices, and a master of alternative hive styles like top-bar and horizontal hives and small-cell hives.
Sam brings years of hands-on experience and a unique perspective on queen rearing, genetic diversity, and cultivating resilient, locally adapted bees. Sam's focus on fostering self-sustaining colonies is both inspiring and practical for beekeepers of all levels.
His passion, humor, and wealth of knowledge will leave everyone inspired to explore new possibilities in treatment-free beekeeping.
This is your chance to learn from one of the most innovative minds in beekeeping and gain insights you can use in your own apiary. Let’s gather, learn, and celebrate the art of sustainable beekeeping!
6:30 PM - 7:00 PM: SAM COMFORT
(limited version of our typical "Beekeeper Helpline, Potluck SNACKS, Social, Q&A)"
Sam Comfort
limited or special version of our typical "New and Experienced beekeepers helping each other with questions, quandaries, and other beekeeping related challenges... including (if any) mini-workshops, show-and-tell, testimonies followed by our regular meeting (see below)"
limited or special version of our typical "New and Experienced beekeepers helping each other with questions, quandaries, and other beekeeping related challenges... including (if any) mini-workshops, show-and-tell, testimonies followed by our regular meeting (see below)"
Please DO NOT bring snacks. DO NOT bring door prizes, etc.
7:00 PM: Business Meeting replaced by Sam Comfort
following times are approximate:
7:30 PM: Meeting Adjourns: Flexible to be determined by Sam Comfort
7:30 PM - 7:40 PM: NO DOOR PRIZES
7:40 PM: Main Program changed to start at 6:30 PM
Speaker: Sam Comfort
NOTE: Our club does not charge admission and we do not accept donations
FIELD/APIARY "HANDS-ON" MEETING, OR OTHER WAS HELD ON:
May 2025 - TBA
May APIARY MEETING (Outing/Field Day) - BRING SMOKER & VEIL
DATE/TIME: May (to be announced)
HANDS ON, EDUCATION, IN OUR APIARY (BY INVITATION)*
*APIARY or FIELD meetings: Date, time, and location are announced here on website, also on Facebook, and finally at the regular business meeting where sign-up is often required. Field/Apiary Meetings are reserved for members in good standing (recently and regularly attending meetings, volunteering, dues paid, etc.) and who have signed up at the business meeting just prior to the scheduled field meeting (Unless approved otherwise by the Apiary Chairman, President, and/or Apiary land owner). Apiary location is only provided to those signed up and/or approved/confirmed as eligible to attend. Apiary location will not be made available here (on website) nor will it be provided on social media (Facebook). Please protect the privacy of the apiary location and only share with other members only.
Hug some trees, buy a license plate voucher ...we need the bees... and they need us!
Fill out form at this meeting and send to FSBA prior to deadline (end of May, 2025) to make sure you get your "free" voucher courtesy of FSBA.
Fill out form at this meeting and send to FSBA prior to deadline (end of May, 2025) to make sure you get your "free" voucher courtesy of FSBA.
This is not a project of the Beekeepers Association of Southwest Florida - It is a project of Florida State Beekeepers Association
Frame Assembly Workshop at a previous meeting's workshop
Workshop (Frame Assembly using Frame Assembly Jig) and Meeting went well on Thursday, May 19, 2022. Dennis handed out plans for one of the many frame assembly jigs similar to the one he uses and also similar to the one demonstrated at this workshop. Following the business meeting he spoke a little on foundationless frames (handout for notebooks were passed out to members). Marc was out of town, but we have planned an apiary hands-on day in apiary and we will also assemble supers and frames, swap out bottom boards, check on queens and colony progress on Saturday, June 4, 2022 at 10:00 am (Marc should be back then). Check future Facebook posts and website often for updates. https://www.basfbees.org/frame-assembly.html
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