March President’s Message
First, a warm welcome to all our new members, who are now in the process of taking the Short Course and will soon be operating their very own hives. Great to have you as new members of the MCBA. Opening Read More …
Author: Phil Frank
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Getting Ready for Spring by BeeGeorge
As I sit here looking out the window at snow, snow and more snow, it is hard to imagine that spring is just around the corner. It’s toward the end of January as my fingers mash the keyboard. Temperatures warm Read More …
February Letter from the South by Bill Miller
Accuse me of going soft if you like, but nothing made me appreciate the normally balmy Southern winter quite as much as the recent spate of cold waves. To put that into perspective, the last time Dothan Alabama schools had Read More …
February President’s Message
This is my first article as president of our club and it makes me a little nervous. You see, I have a long history of learning from my mistakes — as I make a lot of mistakes — so I Read More …
The Harvest Festival at the Montgomery County Agricultural History Farm Park
On a very hot Saturday in early October, the Harvest Festival was in full swing. The festival was attended by about 3,336 visitors, mostly young kids with moms and dads in tow. The corn maze, the make-your-own bouquet of flowers Read More …
December President’s column
This is my last installment as your MCBA President. I’ve truly had a great time in this special leadership position. It is great fun working with all of you and being involved with the vast array of MCBA activities. I Read More …
Mead Bottles Filled (and some emptied) by Allison Abernathy
Montgomery County Beekeepers Association (MCBA) Master Mead Maker Yancy Bodenstein again hosted MCBA members at his backyard Gaithersburg meadery to demonstrate and supervise bottling of the mead we started earlier. Yancy had hosted a hands-on beginner mead making class in Read More …
Making Room for My Goof Balls, and Beer by Frank Powers
It seems like yesterday that Jim King passed the editor torch to me. It’s been a great year and a half as editor! But, the time has come to pass the torch over to Dara Ballow-Giffen. Dara has assumed the Read More …
Early November Letter from the South by Bill Miller
I trust all of you have gotten your hives all prepped for winter. Here in the South, we don’t get much of a winter, but I still had to make sure all of my colonies had enough feed to make Read More …
Bees, Wasps & Flys by Timothy McMahon
When I first started beekeeping five years ago, I had the idea of making a small display of pinned specimens of a honey bee side-by-side with a yellow jacket to take to Tristen’s school (he was only 5 at the Read More …