Upcoming Beekeeping Classes
and Conferences
Mark your
Calendars!
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There is an on-line beekeeping course in the University of Delaware's
Distance Learning Program.  For information on the course, go to their
website :
http:www.continuingstudies.udel.edu/udonline/search
and enter the code ENWC214
To enroll, contact
Melanie Rehberg or Dr. Dewey Caron
Check out the NCBA Master Beekeeper
education page!  It is cool! They
periodically hold classes, so keep
checking with them -

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www.ncbeekeepers.org/master.htm
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The South Carolina Beekeepers will hold their spring meeting on Saturday,    
6 March 2010, at the Farm Bureau Building, 724 Knox Abbott Drive, Cayce,
(West Columbia) SC. The meeting site can be reached easily from I-26 by
taking the Airport Exit; go north toward Columbia which will run into Knox
Abbott Drive. The building is on the left approximately 3 miles from I-26.
Registration will begin at 8:00 AM and the meeting program will get under
way at 8:30. Registration cost is $5 per person, $8 per family, or $10 for
non-SCBA members.  
www.midstatebeekeepers.com/meetings.html
MAAREC has some really good
factsheets - try this page:
maarec.cas.psu.edu/factsheets.html
updated 12 Feb 2010
The Eastern Missouri Beekeepers Association will offer full-day courses of
instruction for beginning and experienced beekeepers on Saturday,
February 20, 2010, from 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at Maritz in Fenton,
Missouri. Space is limited, and will be filled on a first-come-first-served
basis.  For more information, check out their website:

http://easternmobeekeepers.com/documents/emba2010workshop_pr.pdf
The Georgia Beekeepers Spring Meeting will be in Moultrie, GA on
February 12-13, 2010.  Plans are being made to have another great
meeting!  Confirmed speakers include:  Jennifer Berry, Keith Fielder,
Bill Owens

More details will be posted as they are confirmed.

http://cowetabeekeepers.webnode.com/news/georgia-beekeepers-associ
ation-spring-meeting/


Do you have interest in "natural/chemical free" beekeeping?
CNG (Certified Naturally Grown) Workshop, 13 February 2010
at the Folk Art Center in Asheville, North Carolina from
9:30-4:30, $10
Get more info and register at
www.naturallygrown.org/natural-honey-workshops


Jackson/Swain Counties
1 day 8:30AM Sat 3/6/2010 at Swain County Extension
Office - $20 registration
.  For more info, call Swain County
Extension office 828-488-3848 or Lynn Jones 828-743-
7818
lbj3@verizon.net
http://www.wncbees.org/
Madison County
Hands-on Beginner Beekeeping, spring 2010 (date TBA)
Contact Jon Christie, (828)689-4095
http://www.wncbees.org/
Henry County Beekeepers Short Course:  27 February
2010, 8:00-5:00 at the Public Safety Building; 116 Zack
Hinton Pkwy S; McDonough GA.  $30 pre-registration, $40
at the door.  For more info:
Tom Bonnell:  (770)473-5434
www.henrycounty beekeeping.org
Heartland Apicultural Society annual conference: 8-10 July at
the Tennessee Technological University in Cookeville TN.
For more info:
Jim Garrison, jimg1850@live.com
www.heartlandbees.com/index.htm
EAS 2010:   Boone, North Carolina on 2-6 August 2010.  
They "... are diligently assembling our schedule for the short
course, workshops, social events and the for conference
itself..."
Keep checking the website for info updates:
http://www.easternapiculture.org/programs/2010/