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Wednesday, February 17, 2021

Come to the GBA Spring Conference online - it's only $15 for members and $20 for nonmembers!

 It will be worth getting up on Saturday morning to hear Jack Rowe of Auburn talk about pesticides. Jack is talking about how we as beekeepers deal with the pesticides that come into our beekeeping life from outside our beehives - like our neighbors spraying RoundUp or agricultural farms next door to our apiaries. His talk is engaging and really worth hearing. Later in the day he is speaking on how to Bee a Good Neighbor. Here he is:


Jay Evans from the Beltsville, MD bee lab will speak to us on how to tackle the issue of stress in our bee colonies and later in the day, he'll talk about novel treatments for bee diseases. I've heard him speak on three different topics at EAS a couple of years ago and thought he was such a great and engaging speaker.


Jennifer Berry is our third "J" keynote speaker. She will share the results of the UGA Bee lab's oxalic study that is now complete and later in the day will end our conference with a talk about the sunny side of beekeeping. Jennifer is always funny and keeps everyone's attention as we all learn something. 


In addition to all of those great talks (six of them!) we have eight different breakouts from which you can choose. They are as follows:
1. Barry Bolling speaking on The Importance of Raising your own queens using the Queen hotel
2. Cindy Hodges: Races of Honey bees
3. Julia Mahood: Bee Club Apiaries
4. Michael Minardi: Making Mead
5. David McLeod: Diseases of the Brood
6. Willa Beth Smith: Medicinal Honey
7. Linda Tillman (yes, me) Offering a Virtual Hive Inspection for your Bee Club 
8. Georgia Zumwalt: Photography for Honey Shows

For the minimal registration fee, you can watch all of the breakouts and the keynotes after the conference for the following two weeks.

I'm sure all of you will want to come! To register, just click here and spend a wonderful Bee Saturday here in Georgia, ya'll. 






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