• Annual Meeting

    24Sep
    Categories: Association Business, Meetings Comments: 0

    The New Mexico Beekeepers Assocation will be holding their annual meeting November 13-14th in Albuquerque, NM at the Immanuel Presbyterian Church located at 114 Carlisle Blvd SE Albuquerque, NM 87106-1428 Tel:(505) 265-7628.

    Friday, November 13th agenda will run from 1pm-5pm and will include updates from the New Mexico Department of Agriculture State Bee Inspector, Mr. Greg Watson.

    Saturday, November 14th session runs from 9am-4pm or thereabouts. Agenda includes presentations from local beekeepers and bee enthusiasts about all sorts of pertinent and interesting info for backyard and professional beekeepers!

    • Laurie Lange with the NM Native Bee Collaborative
    • Mark Spitzig from Zia Queenbee Co. with his honeybee pollen patty recipes and other bee friendly foods “cooking demo”
    • NMBKA officer elections
    • Pesticide issues
    • Marketing ideas and “Gourmet Honey Selling” by Melanie Kirby;
    • Migratory beekeeping for pollination by Pancho Garcia
    • A sweet theatre production by Larry Claasen entitled, “Mankeeping by Queen Bee Natalia and Drone Boris”
    • Discussions of the proposed changes to the NM Bee Law and Act.
    • Also presenting will be Keynote speaker Dr. Diana Sammataro from the USDA/ARS Carl B. Hayden Bee Research Laboratory in Tucson, AZ.

  • Upcoming Meeting announcement, and how you can help.

    12Sep
    Categories: Meetings, News Comments: 0

    The NMBKA will be hosting it’s fall meeting November Friday 13th and 14th.

    Melanie Kirby asks: Do you make wine with honey? Make candles? Make your own beekeeping equipment? Practice apitherapy? Migratory pollination? Do batik with beeswax, make floor polish with beeswax? Do you have an affinity for honeybee plants, gardening or cooking with honey? Do you do book reports on various beekeeping literature? Run a small, diversified farm and have livestock- including bees?
    Melanie trying to find persons interested in doing small presentations for the upcoming New Mexico Beekeepers Association November meeting- which will be held in Albuquerque Nov. 13-14th. There is plenty of time for prepping. However, she is running out of time for certain media advertising. It would be nice to submit who, what, when and where to Bee Culture and The American Bee Journal. They require a two month advance notice of print. I would like to include a list of presentations and presentors (even if only partial)- which she must submit within the next ten days.

    Anyone interested in sharing their beekeeping experience- no matter how grand or small- is welcome! We are all learning from our bees, and from each other- so don’t be shy!

    Topics can include anything and everything pertaining to beekeeping management (beginning and advanced), horticulture, research, climate, hive products, marketing, education, other native pollinators, medicinal, artesanal- you name it!

    I can try to approach specific beekeepers directly- however, I don’t know everyone nor their experiences. But I do know that there are many of you out there who have great info to share. So this is an open-call, and open invitation to all of you bee enthusiasts in our New Mexican beekeeping community (and our neighbors). No one will be turned away.

    If interested- you can contact Melanie Kirby (ziaqueenbees@hotmail.com) or Jerry Anderson (janderson240@comcast.net).

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