The Flow Hive™ has captured the attention of the bee world. It often comes up as a question in bee meetings and bee schools. People mostly have questions and also lots of opinions upon hearing about it. Labeled “the Holy Grail of Beekeeping,” it has been self-proclaimed “the most significant invention in beekeeping since 1852” […]
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The Flow Hive™ has captured the attention of the bee world. It often comes up as a question in bee meetings and bee schools. People mostly have questions and also lots of opinions upon hearing about it. Labeled “the Holy Grail of Beekeeping,” it has been self-proclaimed “the most significant invention in beekeeping since 1852”
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At the March and April WVBA meetings I distributed paper copies and directed members to a web-based survey document as a continuing effort to define overwintering success. This was the 7th year of such survey activity. I received 230 responses from OR backyarders, keeping anywhere from 1 to 50 colonies; Willamette Valley members sent in
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At the March and April WVBA meetings I distributed paper copies and directed members to a web-based survey document as a continuing effort to define overwintering success. This was the 7th year of such survey activity. I received 230 responses from OR backyarders, keeping anywhere from 1 to 50 colonies; Willamette Valley members sent in
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On our June 22nd meeting we will be meeting in BUILDING 9 ROOM 111. We are still at Chemeketa Community College. Drive into the main entrance of the college (Lancaster Drive). Park in the GREEN lot. Building 9 is in front of you just to the right of Building 1. campusmap2015
Willamette Valley Beekeepers Association (WVBA) Established in 1967. May’s meeting is on Monday May 18th, because the fourth Monday is Memorial Day. Wild blackberry is just beginning to bloom on the valley floor. Do your hives need more supers? Without having your bees on particular crop on a farm, wild blackberries produce the largest honey
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At April WVBA meeting I challenged beekeepers to join the 2015 AG IN THE CLASSROOM (AITC) Literacy Project designed to help better improve literacy of Kindergarten through 6th grade students along with their knowledge of agriculture. Oregon is generating a buzz this year by offering as a component of their Literacy Project a chance to
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At April WVBA meeting I challenged beekeepers to join the 2015 AG IN THE CLASSROOM (AITC) Literacy Project designed to help better improve literacy of Kindergarten through 6th grade students along with their knowledge of agriculture. Oregon is generating a buzz this year by offering as a component of their Literacy Project a chance to
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With spring it is the time to check on how bees overwintered and to fill out the PNW overwintering losses (successes!) survey from OSU PLEASE Consider helping provide this information !! This year with help from a couple of Portland area PUB beekeepers I have expanded the backyarder (small-scale/hobbyist) beekeeper survey and developed it into
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With spring it is the time to check on how bees overwintered and to fill out the PNW overwintering losses (successes!) survey from OSU PLEASE Consider helping provide this information !! This year with help from a couple of Portland area PUB beekeepers I have expanded the backyarder (small-scale/hobbyist) beekeeper survey and developed it into
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