President's Message for May 2008
Sunday, May 11, 2008
Hi everyone!
At our meeting on April 13, Herman Danenhower from the Pennsylvania State Beekeeepers Association gave us a wonderful presentation about producing comb honey, filled with good humor and good advice. We filmed it, and you can borrow the DVD from the club library. New beekeepers or urban beekeepers with no access to a honey extractor might find that producing comb honey is ideal.
As you know, our Library has been updated to become a 21st century on-line resource. So, you will be able to see the speaker DVDs available here on our Club website and we will be able to track who borrowed each one and when it should be returned for other members to access.
Please explore our Club website – there’s always something new!
Thank you, George and Debra Schramm (webmaster and librarian, respectively).
Good news: Our “winning streak” continued! Our Club gained more new members. This month, we welcome Deborah Oliviero and Kathleen Goggins.
I think the website is attracting new members. It is also generating inquiries from the public about where to buy local honey, where to get bees, how to start beekeeping, and potential bee removal jobs.
Which leads me to 3 questions:
1. SALES PAGE:
I would like to add information similar to the example below to our website. It’s a place where members can advertise to sell honey and other products of the hive to the public. This sample is from the New Jersey Beekeepers Association: http://njbeekeepers.org/BeeProducts.htm
Location: Bayport
Beekeeper: John Smith
Phone: 631-555-1212
Email: jsmith@xyz.com
Website: www.xyz.com
Products: Honey, Candles
Inquirers have often been people suffering from seasonal allergies who have read in the media that consuming local honey can help to immunize them from allergy symptoms. If you’d like to be listed, please email our webmaster George at webmaster@longislandbeekeepers.org.
2. UPDATED SWARM LIST:
I’d like to update the Swarm List on the website and in the newsletter. If you are currently listed and wish to remain so, do nothing. If you wish to be removed from the Swarm List, please notify Jim Fischer at correspondingsecy@longislandbeekeepers.org. If you wish to be added to the Swarm List, please email Jim with your contact information.
3. DONATED RAFFLE PRIZES:
If anyone has prizes to donate for the raffle we have at our meetings, please contribute them. The bee equipment companies have become less generous about providing “freebies” to us. I will be donating some items. Hope you will too.
But, at our next meeting, we won’t have a raffle, because it’s the Progressive Hive Tour, and we will be on the move, visiting three members’ apiaries in the Huntington area. And two are Master Beekeepers, so you’re sure to learn a lot! And the Club will provide the refreshments at each stop.
Thanks, everyone. Please know that your participation in every way is valued and appreciated.
PS – Jim and I attended the wedding of Kim Flottum and Kathy Summers in Ohio on April 26. Here’s a picture of the happy couple.
Many of our members know them well from attending the Eastern Apicultural Society (EAS) meetings and reading Bee Culture magazine. The reception was held at the A.I. Root Company, the oldest beekeeping company in America.
At our meeting on April 13, Herman Danenhower from the Pennsylvania State Beekeeepers Association gave us a wonderful presentation about producing comb honey, filled with good humor and good advice. We filmed it, and you can borrow the DVD from the club library. New beekeepers or urban beekeepers with no access to a honey extractor might find that producing comb honey is ideal.
As you know, our Library has been updated to become a 21st century on-line resource. So, you will be able to see the speaker DVDs available here on our Club website and we will be able to track who borrowed each one and when it should be returned for other members to access.
Please explore our Club website – there’s always something new!
Thank you, George and Debra Schramm (webmaster and librarian, respectively).
Good news: Our “winning streak” continued! Our Club gained more new members. This month, we welcome Deborah Oliviero and Kathleen Goggins.
I think the website is attracting new members. It is also generating inquiries from the public about where to buy local honey, where to get bees, how to start beekeeping, and potential bee removal jobs.
Which leads me to 3 questions:
1. SALES PAGE:
I would like to add information similar to the example below to our website. It’s a place where members can advertise to sell honey and other products of the hive to the public. This sample is from the New Jersey Beekeepers Association: http://njbeekeepers.org/BeeProducts.htm
Location: Bayport
Beekeeper: John Smith
Phone: 631-555-1212
Email: jsmith@xyz.com
Website: www.xyz.com
Products: Honey, Candles
Inquirers have often been people suffering from seasonal allergies who have read in the media that consuming local honey can help to immunize them from allergy symptoms. If you’d like to be listed, please email our webmaster George at webmaster@longislandbeekeepers.org.
2. UPDATED SWARM LIST:
I’d like to update the Swarm List on the website and in the newsletter. If you are currently listed and wish to remain so, do nothing. If you wish to be removed from the Swarm List, please notify Jim Fischer at correspondingsecy@longislandbeekeepers.org. If you wish to be added to the Swarm List, please email Jim with your contact information.
3. DONATED RAFFLE PRIZES:
If anyone has prizes to donate for the raffle we have at our meetings, please contribute them. The bee equipment companies have become less generous about providing “freebies” to us. I will be donating some items. Hope you will too.
But, at our next meeting, we won’t have a raffle, because it’s the Progressive Hive Tour, and we will be on the move, visiting three members’ apiaries in the Huntington area. And two are Master Beekeepers, so you’re sure to learn a lot! And the Club will provide the refreshments at each stop.
Thanks, everyone. Please know that your participation in every way is valued and appreciated.
PS – Jim and I attended the wedding of Kim Flottum and Kathy Summers in Ohio on April 26. Here’s a picture of the happy couple.
Many of our members know them well from attending the Eastern Apicultural Society (EAS) meetings and reading Bee Culture magazine. The reception was held at the A.I. Root Company, the oldest beekeeping company in America.