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Our regular 2012
meetings are on the 2nd Wednesday of each month unless otherwise
noted.
Our Next Meeting will be
February 8, 2012 at 6:30 PM
"Speaker and Topic": About
the Farm Bureau: Our speaker will be Andy Neuhofer,
Assistant Director Field Services and the person in charge of New
Membership will be presenting information on the Farm Bureau
(mission, benefits, etc.). David Gatley will NOT be presenting NATIVE POLLINATORS Part 3 (final part)
at this meeting, but will conclude his presentations at another
meeting.
Banning of
Backyard Beekeeping in our Area
In spite of warm and fuzzy feelings for the honey bee, general fear of
insects is canceling out common sense! Citations issued... Fight or Flight? Your help is needed to
replace fear/ignorance with acceptance/knowledge.
Learn about the benefits of backyard beekeeping in both
residential and urban areas of our community... and why issuing citations
to backyard beekeepers is not in the best interest of our community.
What you can do to help. Equip, educate yourself, the public, media,
and community leaders. Practice good beekeeping, be a model
beekeeper... use Best Management Practices. Write a letter!
The banquet takes place in the Special Event Center at the Fairgrounds.
Use the Martin Luther King Boulevard Fair Entrance
Laurence will be honored at Florida
Agricultural Hall of Fame banquet during the Florida
State Fair in Tampa.
Laurence is a
third-generation beekeeper who was instrumental in advocating for research
to reduce bee hive losses in Florida. He also invented a trap for small
hive beetles. Cutts served as chief of
the Apiary Inspection Bureau at the Florida Department of Agriculture and
Consumer Services.
...
read more
If interested in attending and sitting at a FL Beekeeper's table, please
send to your check in the amount of $60.00 (per person) to Gary Ranker.
Include your name as you wish it to be printed on the name tag.
Click Here for Gary's contact information.
SEE VIDEOS of Laurence Cutts
Seating assignment will appear on your name badge at the event.
Pot Luck Dinner and Meeting
was held on Wednesday, 12-14-11, 6:30 PM
Click Here or on Images
above to see all the pictures, etc. from this event.
State
Preemption/Apiculture -
SB 1132 (Hays) & HB 1197 (Horner)
This bill would give the Florida
Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (DACS) exclusive authority to
regulate beekeeping, apiaries and their locations.
Farm Bureau’s annual legislative
days in Tallahassee
Briefing Dinner: Monday, January
30, 2012 at the Antique Car Museum (6800 Mahan Drive 32308) beginning at 6:30
p.m. RSVPs are required. Admission is $15 and is payable at the door.
Legislative Reception: Tuesday,
Jan. 31, 2012 at the Tallahassee Leon County Civic Center from 5:30 to 8:00 p.m.
Admission is $20.
...read more
Palm Beach Beekeepers
Conference Saturday April 14, 2012
8:00 AM to 5:00 PM Pine Jog Environmental Education Center
6301 Summit Blvd., West Palm Beach, FL 33415
The FSBA will have a booth at the Florida
State Fair, Tampa, FL ~ February 9 -20, 2012.
Bert Kelley
is the coordinator. Bert carries his master sign-up sheet with him at all
times during the day, so just give him a call to be added to the list.
Dennis spoke at the Venice Area Garden
Club, Venice, FL on Thursday, January 5, 2012. His one-hour
talk/demonstration included basic bee biology, beekeeping as a
hobby, and honey from the hive to the market place.
Observation hive with live bees were on display during the
presentation. He was well-received, many questions, and much
interest in beekeeping. BASF flyers, club meeting information,
Honey Queen recipes, etc. were distributed to those interested.
Pictured below is Bea Holt and Dennis.
"Thank you for your informative and entertaining presentation."
Bea Holt, VP Venice Area Garden Club, Venice, FL
The Curious Kids meet beekeeper Keith Councell to learn just how
creative bees can be! From honey to furniture polish and candy, bees
keep pretty busy!
Better late than never. Found Videos from last year's
convention... thanks to
Brendhan for posting them on web at vimeo. For those who
missed the convention, you can watch videos from last year's event
using menu directly above. A couple of videos included below
for your enjoyment:
Bee Bearding at our 2010 Convention for FSBA
Our David Mendes at Day in Bee Yard portion of our Convention 2010 for FSBA
Reminder to registered beekeepers from
Freddie Howard, local apiary inspector:
If you have not already done so, please call
Freddie and schedule your yearly inspection
Our Local Beekeepers Association of
Southwest Florida Calendar. Primarily Local BEEKEEPING Events and
BEEKEEPING Activities. Events with some State (Florida) Events.
FSBA Calendar includes all Beekeeping Events (Local,
Florida, and other locations). We are often incorrectly listed as
Southwest Beekeepers on this calendar.
Not a beekeeper, but wish to support our efforts and show your
support for our cause, then please consider donating. You may
use the convenient "Donate" button to donate online (securely and
safely) using your credit card... or you may mail your donations to
our treasurer.
Beekeepers Association of Southwest Florida can use
your help. Please DONATE to support our group's efforts.
We are a now a 501(c)3 Non-Profit Organization and your donations are tax deductible!:
Notice: You do NOT have to be a member of PayPal (or sign up) to
use your credit card to donate, simply look during the donation process for the
section "Don't have a PayPal account? and click continue.
How do I join Beekeepers Association of Southwest Florida (BASF)?
Attend one of our meetings and pay applicable dues to our Treasurer,
or you can DOWNLOAD an application
for membership, and mail it to our treasurer along with
applicable dues. Currently $10 for current year if you
are already a member of the Florida State Beekeepers Association (FSBA).
If you are not a member of FSBA then we can collect membership dues
for FSBA as well, in which case the total amount would be $25
($10 BASF + $15 FSBA).