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12/23/2025
Looking for a last minute Christmas gift or thinking about starting a new hobby in 2026?
Register for our 2026 Beekeeping School! The $55 registration fee includes 2 days of honey bee & beekeeping knowledge from advanced & experienced beekeepers, The Beekeepers Handbook “textbook” AND MORE!
12/12/2025
BoCC beekeepers Becky, Stephanie & Elizabeth recently decorated a honey bee & beekeeping theme Christmas tree. Ours is one of approx. 2 dozen donated trees decorated by local businesses, groups, churches, etc. for the 2025 Community Christmas Trees in the Cupola House Garden this holiday season.
Many thanks to Bob & Gail Rolleri for donating our tree & their continued support of the Community Christmas Trees & local beekeepers/beekeeping!! 🎄🐝
12/05/2025
🐝 If you’ve ever said, “one day I’d like to keep bees”…let this be your sign to take the first step.
Our 2025 Bee School is officially open for registration — and we’d love to have you join us!
This course is packed with everything you need to get started keeping bees with confidence.
✔️ Hands-on learning
✔️ Expert local beekeepers
✔️ Hive setup, seasonal care, equipment, pests, honey harvesting & more
✔️ A welcoming and fun club excited to support you
📅 All the details are on the flyer below!
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11/13/2025
🐝 A Huge Thank You to Our Anonymous Donor! 🐝
We arrived at the apiary this week to find an incredible surprise waiting by the shed door — an oxalic acid vaporizer generously donated by an anonymous member of our community.
This is an expensive and extremely useful tool that will help us treat our colonies for mites safely and effectively. Having one available at the apiary will make a meaningful difference for our club members and, most importantly, for the health of our bees.
To whoever left this gift: thank you! Your kindness and support mean more than you know, and our entire club is truly grateful.
If you come across this post, please know that your generosity will benefit our bees for years to come. 💛🐝
Special thanks to the club members who helped winterize the bees at the apiary this weekend. The hives were reduced down to 2 or 3 boxes depending on the size of the colony and then a blend of sugar, water and a food supplement was added to the hives as a backup food source. Bees will cluster together in the hive during cold temperatures so it’s important to make sure that they have a food source right above the cluster to prevent starvation.
10/30/2025
BoCC new-bees (new beekeepers) Terry & Crissy spent a recent Saturday morning @ Edenton Farmers Market sharing informatuon about honey bees/beekeeping & selling honey from the Beekeepers of Chowan County’s Teaching Apiary on Brayhall Road in Edenton.
This was the mother-daughter duos first time volunteering for a community outreach event & they did a great job setting up an educational & eye-catching bee/honey display & representing BoCC!! 🐝💕
Our Teaching Apiary is where our experienced beekeepers teach hands-on beekeeping to new beekeepers. This invaluable resource allows new beekeepers to work along side experienced beekeepers & immediately get answers to their questions about what is happening within the club’s colonies. All aspects of beekeeping, from treating honey bee pests, making splits, troubleshooting any issues (swarming, a queenless colony, etc.), to harvesting honey is all taught hands-on.
For those interested in beekeeping &/or becoming a beekeeper, BoCC offers a Beekeeping 101 AKA Bee School during the off season each year in January/February. To be notified when registration opens &/or for additional information email: [email protected] 🐝
10/28/2025
On October 6th Tyrrell County Library along with BoCC VP & NCSBA Journeyman Beekeeper Jamie Williams enhanced two area 5th grade classes learning experience by giving them the opportunity to see LIVE honey bees up close & to learn about honey bees from a local beekeeper! Students had already read Akeem Keeps Bees! written by Kamal Bell as part of the NC Reads Program prior to the event. 🐝💕
10/04/2025
It was a busy beekeepers day today!
🐝 🎉 CONGRATULATIONS!! 🐝🎉
Tom Roll completed his hands-on hive practical to become a NCSBA Certified Beekeeper today! Tom is a second year beekeeper, along with his wife, Lisa. They are very active members of our bee club & this dynamic team generously shares their time & talents to the benefit of BoCC & the community!
Beekeepers checked on our club’s hives at the Apiary Field Day & completed the 4th quarter NC DOT Adopt-a-Highway litter pick up on Brayhall Road where BoCC’s Teaching Apiary is located. ♻️ 🗑️
Beekeepers Terry & Crissy were at Edenton Farmers Market with LIVE honey bees on display this morning & they were selling BoCC 12oz squeeze honey bears with a dripless top for $10. We still have 30-ish bears available, if you would like to support your local beekeepers & bee club. Just send us a message here on FB to coordinate pick-up. 🍯🐻
Many thanks to all who have purchased BoCC’s local honey this season. Our bees are located on Brayhall Road just outside Edenton & that’s where the bees make the honey we sell! You can’t get much more local honey than that! Unless you become a beekeeper! And you can 💯 become a beekeeper by attending BoCC’s upcoming Beekeeping 101 class aka “Bee School” in January/February 2026. Stay tuned for all the details soon. 🐝
09/28/2025
Tonight is the last night to see LIVE honey bees & support your local beekeepers by purchasing local honey squeeze bears with a dripless top @ Chowan County Regional Fair for $10. 🐝🍯🐻
09/22/2025
Sextet, half a dozen, hexad, six-pack ~ whatever you choose to call it, Beekeepers of Chowan County is a first place & GRAND CHAMPION Educational Booth winner @ the Chowan County Fair! 🎡🐝🥇🏆
It takes the entire hive to make this happen & we have A GREAT ONE!!
Come support your local bee club & beekeepers 🍯🐝 at the Chowan County Fair Tuesday - Friday nights from 4:00pm - 9:30pm & Saturday from 11am - 9:30pm in the Agriculture building!! We’ll be selling 12oz (weight) honey bears for $10! 🍯🐝