November 24, 2018 – This month’s Door County Beekeepers Club Meeting will be held at the Crossroads in Sturgeon Bay at 6:30pm on Tuesday, November 27th.

Topic: Varroa mite life cycle and control caution using oxalic acid
Presenter: Kevin O’Donnell (DCBC club member)
Case Study: Negative behavioral effects from Oxalic Acid Vaporization on honey bee colony, vitality, brood and honey production. This study was done by Kevin as a field study experiment for the University of Montana Master Beekeeping Course.

October 18, 2018 – The October DCBC meeting will be held on Tuesday, October 23 at 6:30pm at the Door County Library, 107 S. 4th Ave, Sturgeon Bay, in the Downstairs Meeting Room.

Topic: Marketing Your Honey Products
Presenters: Heather Spetz, Door County Beekeeper and producer of ‘MotherSun’ honey products. Heather will share her experience in marketing her products:
• Labeling – what is required, what is attractive
• Selling – word of mouth, road side stand, stores, and Farmers Markets, etc..
Group input from others and their marketing products and experiences. Bring your labels and products to show and tell (Lip balm, Facial creams, Soaps, Cutting board finishes, Pollen, Propilis, Candles)! If you have recipes to share, bring them along.

September 20, 2018 – Our next Door County Beekeepers Club Meeting will be held at the Crossroads in Sturgeon Bay at 6:30pm on Tuesday, September 25th.

Topic and Presenters : Maintain and store your beekeeper’s equipment (boxes, frames, tools etc.) once the honey extraction season has ended. Local beekeepers will share steps that have been effective for them.

Honey Tasting Social: Let’s share a taste of our bounty! Feel free to bring a sample of your honey or a sample of someone else’s to share. And/or if you’d like to bring a treat made with honey, please do. Crackers, paper plates, forks, and napkins will be supplied.

August 15, 2018 – Bee keepers, it is almost the end of August. It is time to pull your honey off your hives and start to raise some fat bees for the winter.

I will pull all my honey off at the first of September, do a mite check and treat if necessary. I’ll check my queens for age it they are marked and if they are older than 2 years, or doing poorly, I will requeen the hive with new queens after my mite treatment. I will add a half a pollen substitute paddy and start to feed them heavy sugar water. Weak hives will be combined.

See you on August 28th for the Hive Dive at the Crossroads Flow Hive. We’ll meet at 5:30 PM. This is the club hive located along the trails at Crossroads, just south of the Collins Learning Center. I will be checking the hive and demonstrating how honey is harvested from a flow hive. Following the honey harvest, I will demonstrate a powder sugar roll test for mites.

Our 6:30 PM Club Meeting will be at the Collins Learning Center at Crossroads.

July 24, 2018 – When you check your hives, be sure that your second brood box is not filled with honey, and that there is space for the Queen to lay eggs.

See you at the meeting tonight (July 24th) at Cross Roads. 5:30 hive dive, 6:30 meeting, all at Cross Roads.

June 26, 2018 – The June gathering of the DCBC on June 27, 2018 includes a Hive Dive and Meeting.

Hive Dive at Wildwood Farm @ 5:30
1693 Wildwood Road, Sister Bay, WI 54234
Max will talk to us a bit about the green drone brood frame (mite control) installed in the hives.

6:30 PM Meeting
Savory Spoon Cooking School 12042 Hwy. 42 Ellison Bay
Presenter and Topic: Janice Thomas and Max Martin – ‘The Sweet Life’. Max will discuss honey flow this time of year. Janice will lead our group in a honey pairing tasting.

April 24, 2018 – April meeting for the Door County Beekeepers Club will be held at the Peninsular Agricultural Research Station, located at 4312 WI-42 in Sturgeon Bay at 6:30pm on Tuesday, April 24th.

Presenter and Topic: Max Martin

Installing your bees/Hive splitting.
Keeping your smoker lit (Max is not very good at this, so crowd participation expected)!

March 26, 2018 – Our monthly Door County Beekeepers Club Meeting will be held at the Kress Pavilion (Great Hall), located at 7845 Church Street in Egg Harbor at 6:30pm on Tuesday, March 27th.

Presenter and Topic: Bill Meyer, Managing Your Bees Against Diseases (and Pests)

Guest presentation: Southern Door AP Literature and English 11 Honors classes
They will present their book project, DC Law. Proceeds earned from their book sales will be donated to our club towards a beehive at Crossroads at Big Creek. Books will be on sale at the meeting.

February 27, 2018 – Our monthly Door County Beekeepers Club Meeting will be held at the Crossroads in Sturgeon Bay at 6:30pm on Tuesday, February 27th.

Presenter and Topic: Max and other seasoned beekeepers.
Getting Ready for Your Bees (types of bees, location, equipment, etc.).

January 22, 2018 – This month’s Door County Beekeepers Club Meeting will meet at the Crossroads in Sturgeon Bay at 6:30pm on Tuesday, January 23rd.

Presenter and Topic: Max M., Gretchen, and Google
Using your harvest for other products (Mead, Soap, lip balm, etc.). Honey Uses Around the House, Bee Bella: Bee Balm, How to Make Mead, Candle-Dipping.
Mead Sampling – Taste two types of mead, made in Denmark Wisconsin (blackberry current with grape and Orange Cream)