The Brown County Beekeepers Association will meet on August 10, at the Rhonemus Hall located on the Brown County Fairgrounds in Georgetown, Ohio. At 6:00 PM, club members will be available to answer questions and share information on beekeeping. The educational program will begin at
7:00 PM, followed by our business meeting.

The educational program will be, ” Horizontal Hive Beekeeping Utilizing Langstroth Deep Frames”.
Have you ever considered beekeeping but was discouraged by the high cost of equipment or lacking the ability to life heavy weights? Horizontal hive beekeeping may be appropriate for your budget and physical ability.

Once established, the heaviest weight you will lift will be an eight pound frame of honey. The hive itself can be easily constructed out of basic building materials and once constructed, can be placed on a stand that minimizes bending or lifting. Because of it’s design, it is sometimes referred to as a ” coffin hive” due to its similarity of a casket.

Honey bees can be kept in a variety of ways, and this is just one of them. All meetings are free and open to the public, so please join us and learn more about the pros and cons of keeping bees in a
Horizontal Bee Hive.

BCBA will be holding a Honey Extraction informational session on July 24th from 11-2pm at Berger Farms 2664 McCafferty Rd. Fayetteville, OH 45118. Members are encouraged to bring their unique methods and ideas to share.

The Brown County Beekeepers Association will meet on July 13th, at the Rhonemus Hall located on the Brown County Fairgrounds in Georgetown, Ohio. At 6:00 PM, club members will be available to answer questions and share information on beekeeping. The educational program will begin at 7:00 PM, followed by our business meeting.

The educational program will be presented by Billy Miller, who will discuss, ” Swarm Trapping and
Top Bar Hive Maintenance”. Billy is a practitioner of ” Sustainable Natural Beekeeping”. Billy is a volunteer at the Strafford Ecological Center, which is an organic farm near Delaware, Ohio. His
work at the center includes maintaining four top bar hives and assisting with twenty Langstroth hives. Additionally, Billy mentors new beekeepers and provides beekeeping educational programs for all age groups.

How well did your swarm traps perform this year? Billy will share with us what’s required to successfully trap swarms. He will have several traps that he uses available for sale at $50.00 each at the meeting.