Long Beach Beekeepers
Have you fallen in love with the honey bees in your garden or during a visit to Beekeeping 101? Are you ready to take the next step to become a full-fledged beekeeper? Do you want to make 2024 your most memorable year ever? We have exactly the thing for you!
This course provides the instruction and hands-on experience to turn a beginner into a confident backyard beekeeper. Topics include hive management, bee biology, recognizing and treating common diseases and predators, legal requirements of keeping bees in Long Beach, and more.
After completing the course successfully and at the club's discretion, participants are eligible to receive a starter bee colony at no additional cost -- subject to availability. Frames and other hive equipment are not included. Please let us know if you want to adopt a colony and have your equipment.
This class is structured as follows:
Please save these dates in your calendar: 3/30/24 9-11AM in person; 4/2/24 *and* 4/9/24 7-9PM online (via Zoom); one mentorship session (weekends, April). Mentor sessions are filled first come first served at the time of registration.
Please save these dates in your calendar: 4/2/24 7-9PM online lecture via Zoom; 4/6/24 9-11AM in person; 4/9/24 7-9PM online lecture via Zoom; one mentorship session (weekends, April). Mentor sessions are filled first come first served, via email after registration.
This mentor session is part of your Bee Prepared class. Please bring your suit/jacket, gloves, smoker, lighter, sanitized hive tool, boots/closed shoes, and water.
Please let us know ASAP if you cannot make it to this session.
Beekeeping 101 is an introductory course that includes instruction, discussions, and suiting up to inspect the hives in the bee yard, weather permitting.
NOTE REGARDING SPACE: This class takes place on the first Saturday of every month. Space is limited and the class fills very quickly. Reserve your spot by registering now. Once the class fills, you will be able to join the wait list. We will notify you if a space opens up, or you will get priority registration for the next Beekeeping 101 (the following month).
Registration opens in mid-April. Wait list from April session will get priority registration.
Long Beach Beekeepers meet on the first Sunday of the month and welcome everyone from the experienced to the novice beekeeper to those just curious about beekeeping. The in-person meeting is open to the general public. Members who opt to attend online will be emailed the meeting link and passcode.
In addition to a guest speaker, meetings feature a Honey of the Month tasting and an opportunity drawing. What a sweet deal!
Special thanks to EDCO Recycling & Transfer for hosting our meetings.
Your busy bees spent their spring gathering nectar and making honey. Now what?
Join us and learn how to harvest and process honey. This hands-on workshop will cover honey extraction as well as high-tech and low-tech methods of processing honey: an electric honey extractor, a hand crank extractor and the crush and strain method. Bring your beekeeping suit and gloves.
This workshop will be held at a private home in Bixby Knolls. The address will be sent to registrants in the confirmation email.
Long Beach Beekeepers is a 501(c)3 organization
EIN# 81-4141237
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