Sudbury & District Beekeepers Association

01/07/2024

Hello and Happy New Year 2024!!

We are still on Facebook, but here's the site you now need to adhere to as we will be taking this site off asap.....

HERE IS THE NEW ADDRESS WHERE YOU CAN FIND INFO!!
Sudbury and District Beekeepers Association

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06/20/2023

This Wednesday, June 21st at Lo-Ellen Park Secondary School , Loach's Road, Sudbury, Ontario

Beekeepers meeting...6 p.m. meet & greet, 7 p.m. the meeting starts.

Room 319, 3rd floor .

Everyone Welcome!!

05/11/2023

Wednesday, May17th, 2023, Sudbury & District Beekeeper's Association, will be holding its monthly meeting. Location is Lo-Ellen Park Secondary School, 275 Loach's Road, Sudbury, Ontario, P3E 2P8 ROOM 319

MEET & GREET 6 P.M.
MEETING 7 P.M.

Our President, Richard Conrad, will be offering greetings to all and introducing our guest speakers, Wayne Leblanc & Adelle Larmour-DeLong. Adelle & Wayne have members in our group for many years!!

Books from our bee library will be offered as we no longer have library access.

Items to be discussed that evening will be protect a bee....installing a nuc and capturing a swarm.

Everyone is welcome to attend! Please come out, meet beekeepers...ask questions...

Thank you to all who attend and make our association fun and informative!!

04/18/2023

SUDBURY & DISTRICT BEEKEEPERS ASSOCIATION
BEEKEEPERS HELPING BEEKEEPERS
SINCE 1977
AGENDA
Wednesday, April 19, 2023
Lo-Ellen Park Secondary School
275 Loach's Road
Sudbury, ON P3E 2P8
Room 319
Meet and Greet 6 pm
Meeting 7 pm
7 pm President's Welcome - Richard Conrad
7:15 pm Guest Speaker Graeme Foers.
Graeme Foers is the current President of the OBBA/Chair of the Ontario Resistant Honey Bee
Selection Program (ORHBS).
Graeme runs a 180 hive operation under the name Lost Meadows Apiaries. Along with honey,
Graeme also sells hygienic Queens and Nucs. Two years ago, he opened a Meadery (under the
name Lost Meadows Meadery) with his sister.
As an active member of the ORHBS program, Lost Meadows Queens are bred for hygienic &
LVG behaviour as well as other desirable traits like gentleness and honey production.
He will be covering what the ORHBS program is and the benefits its queens have.
8:15 pm Coffee Break
8:30 pm Adelle Lamour-DeLong. A long time SDBA member and innovator.
Adelle's presentation, from “Off the Beetn’ Path”, will be th'e new entrance way called
“Protectabee” that was designed by a PhD candidate from Guelph University.
9:15 pm Q&A with Richard Conrad.
Richard will cover some basics about buying nucs and the OBBA standards. He will also talk
about his spring management, how he makes splits and expands his apiary, using Ontario queens.
10 pm Meeting adjourned.
BEEKEEPERS HELPING BEEKEEPERS

03/05/2023

Meeting in March at Science North⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️

02/21/2023

Hello everyone and welcome to our 2023 Sudbury & District Beekeeper's Association new year of meetings and other activities we are planning!!

We have a meeting scheduled for March.

Here's the date & place for our meeting.

Wednesday, March 15th, 2023
Science North, 4th Floor Techlab

6:00 p.m. is our Meet & Greet

6:30 p.m. - 10 p.m. meeting

Our speaker for the evening will be Kristina Greer, Bee Inspector in the Animal Health & Welfare Branch of OMAFRA

Ontario Ministry of Agriculture Farming and Rural Affairs

Please come out, meet our members, network and enjoy an evening of bee talk/knowledge.

Everyone is welcome!!

We have a great year ahead for our Association and we want you to be 🐝 a part of it!
🐝😊🐝😊🐝😊🐝😊🐝😊🐝😊🐝😊🐝

09/23/2022

Our bee association is back to having regular meetings!

🐝 🐝 We have a new location🐝🐝

Please join the group....beekeepers and anyone interested in this amazing hobby are welcome!

Wednesday, October 19th, 2022

7 to 10 p.m.

Fielding Memorial Park, Lively, ON

Lots of parking, meet beekeepers with years of knowledge and learn a bit from our 1st night back!!

We know it's been a while since we saw our members and other friends at the club!!

Join us for a new season and looking forward to a new adventure for many!!

Cheers!!

08/31/2022

Marlon Kazadi and Madi Monroe nab teen co-leads in the family adventure pic based on R.L. Stine’s book of the same name.

08/12/2022

"Holy Christ, I just swallowed a bee," said Ford on Friday.

08/11/2022