Pickens County Beekeepers
Association
Pickens County, South Carolina
The Pickens County Beekeepers welcome you to beautiful Pickens County!   We keep bees here at the edge of
the Blue Ridge Mountains.  It is a fascinating occupation and we invite you to join us in learning more about
bees and beekeeping.

Come explore our developing website or better yet - come join us at 7:00 pm the second Thursday of every
month except December.
We meet at the Farm Burea Building on Highway 178 just south of Pickens.  For directions, scroll down and
click on the link.

Contact us with questions or for more information:  
pcbeekeepers@yahoo.com
Are you looking for honey from a local
supplier?  Check out our Local Honey
Locater Page - click on the picture...
Our Bee Links page has links to equipment
suppliers, bee suppliers, research sites, other
clubs, bee & honey organizations, and
publications - come check it out!
How much do you know
about bees?  Visit our
Bee
Trivia page for some very
interesting information
about bees and honey

If you have things you'd like to see added, just e-mail the information to us at:
pcbeekeepers@yahoo.com
or
WebWitch

Come visit us again and see what new things we've added -

This site last modified:
4
February 2010
Link to the USDA
website, Click
HERE
to review our
industry's stats -
check them out!
The WebWitch's  
Bloom dates for some
common bee plants
in the Table Rock
area - click
HERE
The next Pickens County Beekeepers Association meeting is:   11 February 2010
This is a Thursday night.  The meeting will be held at the Farm Bureau building outside Pickens on
Highway 178.  
NEW LOCATION!!!
Check out the Club Information page to see who our new officers are!
Also - we now have a President's Newsletter, check it out
HERE
Come join us!  For a map to the Farm Bureau Building, Click

Paul Brown's Beekeepers Calendar  
The Notice Board
Do you need some bees removed?  There are some people who can and
will do that.  Click
HERE to go to our Bee Removal Page.  If you want to
be added to our page, just send  your name, contact information, and list
of what kind of removals you can do to
pcbeekeepers@yahoo.com  
Did ya'll know that NASA has a
website with honeybee
information on it?
click
HERE to check it out!
Changed
Pages!!!
Updates on Projects
Y por nuestros amigos Espanoles, estos
websites tienen information en Espanol -
PCBA Pagina en Espanol
Abejas en Espanol
MielPura
Galeria Apicola Virtual
Permanent Index Liks
MAAREC beekeeping glossary
MAAREC-Bee Diseases & Pests
This is really great - the Haagen-Dazs people have built a beautiful website to promote
and help honey bees - check it out!  
http://www.helpthehoneybees.com  
BeeWell Honey & Natural Market      


Mitchell's Bee Supply

Porter Farm Honey Bees
Master Page Listing
Use the Master Page Listing to find any page in our site -

Local Honey Finder
2010 Short Course Information
President's Newsletters
New Meetings and Classes for 2010
Messages from the
WebWitch
We are looking forward to seeing you at Hagood Mill every third Saturday this year.  
updated 15 Jan 2010
As of 15 Jan 2010 -
NEW!!!
Some of the links to other webpages
The 2009 stats are out, go  
check them out

the WebWitch
Check the weather to see if it is good beekeeping weather:

Pickens                Easley               Greenville         Liberty        

(This is an experiment - my thanks for brilliance to the Piedmont Beekeepers, whose idea
this was!
Jeff Friend, one of our
scholarship hive winners,
is telling his story of his
Scholarship hive.  Check it
out!   
Click here
MAAREC beekeeping information factsheets
Here is a wonderful bit of information for ya'll.  At this year's Apimondia meet, the Webb's
over in Georgia won "Best Honey in the World" with their sourwood!  Congratulations to
them and keep your eyes out for some of their honey -
the WebWitch
The Webb's website - MtnHoney
Virginia Webb wins top award
Farm Bureau
Hey!  Check out this website from the Extension - it is pretty cool!

http://www.extension.org/bee%20health
Check out our float from the 2009 Pickens Christmas Parade -   HERE                  
                                
the WebWitch
Photo by Mike Goldsmith, Jan 2010
Hey, ya'll!!  Did you get a chance to get into your bees
yet?  We got into ours to see how they were doing - 52'
and the ladies were flying like crazy!  We put on our
pollen cakes (they jumped into them like ya'll would not
believe - would not even wait for us to finish spooning it
out!) and thought it best to feed one hive (3-brood
chambers last fall and they were up into the super, golly
that's a lot of bees!)  Anyway, we are really happy and
waiting for the red maple next month.  A little bee told me
they were bringing in pollen in Homerville GA yesterday
(14 Jan 2010), so it shouldn't be long now....              
          the WebWitch
p.s. - my Breath-of-springs are budding out and three in
the sheltered hollow are starting to flower!

p.p.s. - they are covered with snow now....
Do you have a beekeeping question, problem, or issue?  Or one about honey?  PCBA has a mentor list,
some one will love to help you out, just call them!  
MENTOR LISTING