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January 2016
What we are seeing these warm days in front of the hives - bees carrying pollen and orienting.
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know that the bees are in danger of starvation this time of the year, since they are ramping up for
spring and have lots of little larvae mouths to feed. My bees did not starve since they had plenty of
honey from the previous year's harvest. But some of my fellow beekeepers had a more difficult time
and lost a few hives to starvation. Best wishes to you and your bees!
I am excited about the upcoming spring meeting. Reserve February 13, 2016! There are a lot of good
speakers coming in to educate us with their knowledge. I hope everyone had a happy and safe holiday.
Please keep your tool hive handy and your fire extinguisher near when you are lighting that smoker
and hope to see you in Milledgeville in February.
Mary Cahill-Roberts
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Light Honey: First Place Desiree Tolar, Second-Place David Tolar, Third-Place Bobby
Chaisson.
Medium Honey: First Place Bobby Chaisson, Second-place Wade Dale, Third-place June
Dale.
Black Jar Category: First Place Meghan Hill, Second-Place Chuck Norman, Third-place Wade
Dale
Photography: First Place Bobby Chaisson and Second Place Meghan Hill
Honey Cake: First Place Francis Armour and Second Place Bobby Chaisson
Coastal Empire Beekeepers Association closes out 2015 with exciting news! October was
a great month for CEBA Savannah was buzzing and our City Council FINALLY PASSED THE NEW
ANIMAL CONTROL ORDINANCE on October 29th this allows bees (and chickens) to be kept
LEGALLY within the Savannah City Limits. The same ordinance
passed for Chatham County in 2013 and is a model for other cities to
follow. All the beekeepers in Savannah who were formerly illegal are
now LEGAL! The other side of this is that we are now required to
register our hives and pay an annual fee.
October 10th saw CEBAs Annual Low Country Boil event at Oatland
Island accompanied by a talk from our guest speaker, Bill Owens,
and a practical apiary session. Bill, a rather spectacular beekeeper,
excellent lecturer and generally all around nice guy was the first to
spot a baby gopher tortoise in our apiary, which had emerged from its
den. Thanks Bill, these little guys get eaten by the lawn mowers if not
collected.
CEBAs new home on Oatland Island has been exciting for the Club and for Oatland Island Wildlife
Refuge. We have renovated a shed that will have sinks, hot and cold water, a freezer, shelves to store
our equipment and a teaching venue for our practical apiary meeting every other month. The Georgia
Master Gardeners Program has accepted the creation of our apiarys pollinator landscaping as a
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project for their certification course and has given us a grant for plant purchases. The master plan
for our apiary space includes native pollinator friendly landscaping design, a drip fountain with
benches for the public to enjoy, a large gazebo with observation hives and educational displays,
and a large covered deck next to our shed for Club and educational projects.
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Heart of Georgia Beekeepers held our annual Pot Luck dinner and Silent Auction on
December 15th at Camp John Hope near Perry. The highlight
of the auction was a custom handmade observation hive by
Jesse McCurdy. Our speaker for the evening was Stacy Rivera
from Georgia Department of Corrections
who spoke on the GBA prison beekeeping
program, of which Heart of GA will
participate at Dooley State Prison.
Bear Kelly was awarded the second
annual Jesse McCurdy Beekeeper of the
Year Award, and Tim Smith was given a
Distinguished Service Award for his two
year tenure as club president.
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West Georgia Beekeepers Association
Betty Cosgrove was awarded the Beekeeper the Year award at the
West Georgia Beekeepers Association Christmas party in
December. Congratulations to Betty for all the things that she
does for the Association. Also, Russ King won the Logo contest
with his entry. We had around fourteen really good entries.
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The Pine Grove Middle School Beekeeping Club finished our
second hive the first week of December! We were super excited
and learned so much from building the hive ourselves! Our
teachers were a little nervous, allowing middle schoolers to work with hammers and wood glue,
but we were amazing. The entire hive was built in less than an hour.
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Honey Show Rules for the Spring Food, Mead and Drink Show
We will be judging mead, beer (made with honey, of course) and non-alcoholic beverages. Along with
that we will be judging the standard honey cake that is listed on the web site and the newest item will
be the "Queens Own Banana Bread. (That recipe was listed in the Dec Spilling the Honey).
To see the honey show rules, click here.
The prize money is greater than in the past. Here are the
categories and prize amounts:
Best in Show $250
First places $100 (For each category..mead, beer, non
alcoholic beverage, honey cake and banana bread)
Second places $30
Third places $20
So far, we have Keith Fielder as Senior judge, Bear Kelley,
Brutz English, and Kevin Baker. Gail Dean and Caleb Kidd
will help out as stewards and Marybeth Kelley as show
secretary.
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Street Cred
Food Labeling sent from Dana Harris
http://www.foodpackaginglabels.net/honey-labels
for an interesting article on 17 ways to use beeswax,
click here.
And it you cant read the sign to the right, heres
what it says:
For sauces, marinades and salad dressings,
substitute pure honey for up to half the granulated
sweetener in the recipe.
To bake with honey:
For each one cup honey used:
Almost half of our GBA members (216 out of 527) have let their dues lapse. When you have not
paid your dues, you become an inactive member. Those of you who fall into this category will find
that you will have to pay your dues in order to register as a GBA MEMBER for the GBA Spring
Conference at Milledgeville. If you want to take care of this before trying to register, click here.
You can set your membership for automatic renewals through PayPal. That way next year you
wont have to deal with a lapsed membership next year!
Helpful info to use to renew your membership on our membership site:
1.
Click link above and notice there are three buttons in grey
2.
3.
Click on CHANGE MEMBERSHIP LEVEL where you can easily choose the type of
membership and number of years of dues you wish to pay
1.
gabeesecretary@gmail.com
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2016 Newsletter
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winter process.
Remember, a drone is merely a flying sperm
and the queen can lay a drone at any point.
The drone is a haploid being and develops
from an unfertilized egg. So during the
spring buildup which is moving toward a
peak at the end of February/beginning of
March, the queen has laid drones who
emerge in the hive just before swarm season
begins. Then you can make a successful split
because there are drones to mate with the
virgin queens.
Now being eager would cost you the lives of
the bees in the queenless half of your split.
Sorry,
Aunt Bee
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Ingredients
Yield: 3 dozen.
Originally published in
Reminisce August/
September 2008, p49
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The success at the Smith facility is the reason we now have two more facilities beginning a
beekeeping program with local GBA club sponsorship. Of the fifteen original inmates and
personnel who were certified, only a few are left at Smith. Several have been transferred to other
facilities and are interested in starting programs there.
I look forward to our continued work with them and any others that come on line.
HELP WANTED
Wanted: SOMEONE to edit or co-edit
our Spillin the Honey Newsletter.
Our term ends at the end of 2016 and
we need to be able to hand off this
position to the next team.
The Final Buzz
Happy New Year to Everyone!
We wish you the best beekeeping
beginnings for the start of 2016. We want
to thank all the people who sent in info
and ideas to get the first Spillin the Honey
off to a good start this year.
Keep your fellow beekeepers in mind when
you are doing something in your apiary
and share it here in the newsletter.
Best wishes for your bees in 2016!