REMINDERS:
The Superior Beekeeping Club will be having an Overwintering Session at our meeting on October 18th at the Chocolay Township Hall at 6 or 6:30. Check back closer to the date for details.
The club extraction here on the 22nd went well. Lots of beekeepers extracting their bees' summer bounty, exchanging bee talk, and sweating in the 85 - 90 degree shop - keeps the sweat and the honey flowing. Overall the crop this year was above average, but spotty. Kenny Kirkhoff and David & Sue Payant were the largest producers in the club this year. Congrats to them and to those without much... next year will be great!! I traveled to Escanaba on the 26th for an overwintering session with the local bee club. Great people there and many thanks to Jessica LaMarsh for keeping it all going and Bay College for hosting the event. We finished the evening with a quick auction to raise some money for the club. Thank-you to the very generous bidders! As I write this on the 28th, we are supposed to be below 32 degrees tonight and a few flurries are possible. Hope we don't just skip to winter...the leaves are just starting to turn. REMINDERS: 2 sugars to 1 water ratio for fall feeding. I feed till they don't take anymore or the weather takes a bad turn..end of October. I usually put them "to bed" the first week in November.
The Superior Beekeeping Club will be having an Overwintering Session at our meeting on October 18th at the Chocolay Township Hall at 6 or 6:30. Check back closer to the date for details.
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