Upcoming Events
Saturday, May 9th – Hive Inspection – Signs of Strong Colony Buildup– Please join BYBA Board Member and Cornell Master Beekeeper, Charles O’Donnell as he walks us through a colony inspection.
As a new beekeeper, you know you are supposed to do inspections but what are you looking for? Charles will do an inspection and talk about what you might be seeing and what to look out for during this time of colony expansion.
Please remember to bring your protective gear as we will be doing an inspection with live bees.
Sunday, May 17th – May Wannabees – Calling families with kids of all ages! We hope that you’ll join us at the BYBA Bee Yard for our Wannabees Kid’s Club Meeting. Kids will learn about pollinators while getting hands-on experience with the Wannabees bee hives.
If you’ve never attended a Wannabees Meeting and would like more information, please email us at wannabees@backyardbeekeepers.com
Tuesday, May 19th – New Bee Fundamentals/Special Topics – Join us for this monthly zoom Q & A session with our panel of experienced beekeepers! The first hour will focus on topics geared towards newer beekeepers while the second hour focuses on seasonal topics for the advancing beekeeper. Everyone, regardless of experience, is welcome at both sessions.
Tuesday, May 26th – Theresa Martin – Dead Bees Don’t Make Honey: 10 Tips for Healthy Productive Bees – This presentation summarizes several of the tips presented in Theresa’s book Dead Bees Don’t Make Honey: 10 Tips for Healthy Bees, which includes a Foreword by Dr. Thomas Seeley describing the book as “remarkable… candid, fact-based, and sensible.” In this presentation, Theresa presents the latest science that explains how and why bees survive in the wild. By modeling what the bees teach us, our managed bees can have higher survival and make more honey, while bringing more enjoyment to the beekeeper.
Theresa Martin is the author of Dead Bees Don’t Make Honey: 10 Tips for Healthy Productive Bees, which includes a Foreword by Dr. Thomas Seeley. Theresa has achieved 99% colony survival and honey production that is twice the local average in her seven years as a beekeeper, with 20–25 colonies in Kentucky. She practices nature-based beekeeping, which is a methodology that places bee health as the highest priority and optimal pathway to productivity. Following the model of how bees survive in the wild, employing integrated pest management, and providing high support yet low intervention, she demonstrates that healthy, alive bees are more productive than sick or dead bees. Theresa is a Cornell
Master Beekeeper, 2024 Kentucky State Beekeeper of the Year, and President of the Kentucky State Beekeepers Association. She is also a writer for Bee Culture Magazine. She worked at Fidelity Investments and Procter & Gamble in information technology and operations management. Theresa can be reached at theresa@littlewolf.farm
Theresa will be here in person and will be available to autograph copies of her book which will be available for purchase at the meeting for $18.
Welcome to the Back Yard Beekeepers Association. With over 400 members, our association has grown to become one of the Nation’s largest regional clubs for beekeeping hobbyists. Some of our members are just getting started as beekeepers, and some have enjoyed this hobby for years. All share an interest in the wonderful and remarkable world of the honey bee.
The BYBA is a 501(c)3 non-profit, charitable organization.
Our general membership meetings are held on the last Tuesday of most months at 7:30 PM at the Norfield Church in Weston, CT.
Please see our Calendar of Events for details.
64 Norfield Rd
Weston, CT 06883
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