Hello everyone,
I invite you to enter our Club’s Annual Honey Show! It’s not just honey!
Here are the categories:

• Your Honey – obviously!
  ◦ Honey Cookery: Bake a cake or make something delicious with honey as an ingredient. Bring the recipe.
  ◦ Candles and Wax
  ◦ Arts and Crafts: Photography or your other creativity related to bees
  ◦ Gadgets – That help with beekeeping
  

Past President Ray Lackey is proud to do the judging of our show. I wish everyone the best of luck in the contest!
See our Honey Judging Rules for more info.

While we are in suspense and Ray is judging, we will have the Long Island Bee Inspector, John Bernard, address us about his hive inspection process, and what he has found about bee health on Long Island thus far.

Jim and I did not harvest honey this year from our hives. They were too light. We felt that we needed to leave the honey for our bees to eat over-winter. So there will be no honey entry in the show from us. Oh well. But thank goodness our bees were inspected and are healthy.

Jim Bobb, the Chairman of the Board of the Eastern Apicultural Society (EAS) had no honey to harvest either. He says this is a common thing on the East Coast, with the rainy, cold Spring we experienced.

We did have a pleasant day when we picked Jim Bobb up from the airport at JFK as he returned from Apimondia in Paris, and we went to the beach on Long Island together, had lunch, and heard all about it. Apimondia sounded great. I hope to go one year!

You all make our Club the best it can BEE! Thanks for all you do.

Joanne Thomas-Fischer
President