Call to order
A board meeting of Denton County Beekeepers Association was conducted at North Lake’s Rec Center on January 9, 2024 at 7pm
Welcome & Announcements
Call to order by Brock Davies at 7:05
42 people in attendance
New Business
January 2024 meeting minutes approved
No Bee Chat scheduled at this time
Call for volunteers for: Fundraising, Bee Yard Hosts, Mentorship, Speaker Topics
New process for library books
Old Business
Despite our best wishes for our two nucs, one failed. The other one was doing very well and we moved it back into a full size 10 frame box during the first weekend in July. We are continuing to feed it and two of our other hives that seemed to be full of bees and shy on stored resources.
On Wednesday, July 6, Michelle was checking bees, watering plants, and went to feed the three hives that needed food and one hive swarmed in front of her. This hive is called Juliet. We are in the middl
June was a busy month for us in Argyle. The last major rainfall event was on June 3 and other than a couple sprinkles after that, we have been, and continue to be very dry. As a result, the country flowering population has dwindled considerably. I know from speaking with some other members that their bees are doing quite well and socking away the honey, but I suspect most of those folks are benefiting most from nicely watered lawn and garden situations. The club's honey extractor is being ut
Well, May turned out to be quite interesting. By our 2nd inspection, all of our hives but one had managed to swarm. However, we had more queen cells created than we have ever seen before with some hives producing as many as eight. Some hives managed to have no queen cells or had an apparent failure to requeen on their own and so we did a lot of hive management. We were fortunate to have the help of several mentees (Ryan, Nick, Taylor, and Andy) and two agri-tourists (Chloe and John). We ha
Busy time of year and so this blog is a bit late. April showers failed to bring May flowers as we were in a bit of a drought in April. What little rain we did get did help get the local wildflower population going, but not what we were hoping to see had we gotten sufficient rain. For us, the flow is more of a trickle rather than a flood. Now that May has started, the rains have come and we are hopeful that resources will be come more available very soon.
We started off April with 11 hi
It has been a rather dry spring so far and we have been waiting on the flowers to really start blooming and the nectar flow to really get going. Finally, the blooms are starting, but very slowly where we have our hives in Argyle.
Michelle and I were lucky to have the benefit of two mentees, Shawn and Nick join us for hive inspections. I think they have gotten to see more than they expected. Wanting them to benefit from seeing as much as possible, we started with our largest hives and we
I hope everyone's bees have come through the winter cold snaps so far and are doing well. Earlier this month during some brief warm periods, we managed to get into all of our hives and check to make sure that all was in order. With 11 hives, it is interesting to see how much variation there is in terms of food stores and queen activity. Fortunately, everyone was queenright. Some of our queens are quite prolific and some seem to be pacing themselves, by comparison. While everybody had food s
We will see if this works. I already posted a message to let everyone know that the required annual business meeting will be part of the general meeting in February. Thanks. Steve Carroll
At last, we have official name tags for all DCBA members as of 11/7/21. 👍 🐝
Be sure to pick yours up at the registration table before each meeting to wear and RETURN at the end of the meeting. Please do not take these home.
Thanks you, Yvette Santy
whew! we've finally gotten our new site up and running.
It took longer than we imagined, but I think the end result was worth it!
Please take a look around, create your profile page, make friends, post comments or even start a new topic.
if you see anything you'd like to change or that doesn't work quite right, let us know and we'll jump on it.
I'm so excited that we can have such a beautiful website and I hope y'all feel the same.
Enjoy!
Michelle
It is that time of year again for DCBA elections. The first step is to form the Nominating Committee. We will also need nominees (as a side note, anyone can be nominated from the floor the day of the elections as long as the person nominating them is a member in good standing and the person nominated meets the requirements and understands the obligations of the office for which they are nominated). I need three volunteers for this committee. Once we have three members for the committee, they wil
We are all encouraged and excited to welcome our members back to your regularly scheduled programming of in person meetings! We've missed everyone and are excited to see friendly faces again.
For all the new beekeepers getting nucs or packages in April, welcome to the club and good fortune on your upcoming journey.
This month, we have our very own Gary Barber as our guest speaker. Gary is co-founder of Honey Bees Unlimited(HBU), a professional pollination service company and commerc
We want to see your face!
Our April meeting will be in person this month.
We will also be doing a zoom option for those who can't make it in person.
We ask that you sit with your family and respect social distancing with other families by keeping a chair or two between families. Masks are optional, but please respect everyone's preferences when socializing.
We will not be offering refreshments at this meeting. The Board will be discussing when it is appropriate to add refreshme
To help generate buzz about Denton County Beekeepers Association, promote membership, and raise bee awareness, we will be holding a beekeeping FLASH MOB at the opening day of the Denton Community Market on Saturday, April 3rd. We'd love to have as many members as possible come out, dress up, and pass out flyers.
The flash mob details are below:
Date: Saturday, April 3rd at 9:15 am
Location: We will be meeting at the front doors of the Carroll Building at 401 S Carroll Blvd.
