We know bees, you can too!
MABA’s December Holiday Party will be held at 6:30 PM on December 12th.
RSVP by 12/8 at:
https://www.memberplanet.com/s/mababc/maba2023holidaypartyrsvp
Manuel’s Tavern
602 N Highland Ave NE
Atlanta, GA 30307
- Please bring a small, inexpensive bee-themed gift to share with another MABA member as part of our fun present exchange.
- MABA will provide some light snacks for you to enjoy
- Purchase your own drinks, or additional dinner
- Please bring your holiday cheer as we close out the 2023 beekeeping season and look forward to a new year.
MABA One Day Beekeeping Course – 27 Jan 2024
An Introduction to Honey Bees and Beekeeping Setting up new hives must be done in the spring, generally from March to May. This course is offered in January to give potential beekeepers time to order bees and equipment and prepare a site for hives. Since the course takes place in January, our classroom course will not involve live bees. During the spring and summer months, hands-on experience with live bees will be available to all Beekeeping Course students through the MABA Hive Inspection program. In the MABA Hive Inspections, small groups go through a beehive with an experienced beekeeper in one of several MABA hive locations in the Atlanta area. THIS FORM WILL CLOSE ON WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 24, OR EARLIER IF THE EVENT SELLS OUT. More details available on the Registration form
Come to the MABA One Day Beekeeping Course to learn the fundamentals of beekeeping from our panel of experts. We welcome anyone who is interested in learning about honey bees, even if a hive is not in your immediate future.Register Now!!: https://mp.gg/54ytf
MABA Calendar
MABA’s December Holiday Party will be held at 6:30 PM on December 12th.
RSVP by 12/8 at:
https://www.memberplanet.com/s/mababc/maba2023holidaypartyrsvp
Manuel’s Tavern
602 N Highland Ave NE
Atlanta, GA 30307
Parking at Manuel’s Tavern is very limited! Please consider ride-sharing if you plan to attend.
- Please bring a small, inexpensive bee-themed gift to share with another MABA member as part of our fun present exchange.
- MABA will provide some light snacks for you to enjoy
- Purchase your own drinks, or additional dinner
- Please bring your holiday cheer as we close out the 2023 beekeeping season and look forward to a new year.
Mentoring Topic: Preparing for the Spring Beekeeping Season
Speaker: Peter Helfrich – Native Bees 101 for Beekeepers
Meetings are currently being held IN PERSON and virtually with Zoom until we make an announcement otherwise.
Meetings are held at Peachtree Road United Methodist Church in Heritage Hall on the 2nd Monday of each month.
Please see the Calendar for more details about scheduled events.
Meetings usually include interesting speakers and discussions on a variety of topics related to beekeeping, such as hive management, honey bee problems, honey, beeswax, and other hive products.
Meetings begin at 7:00 pm and conclude by 9:00 pm.
Come early for informal mentoring time from 6:30-7:00
Mentoring Topic: Spring Management
Speaker: Jerry Wallace – A Year in the Apiary
Meetings are currently being held IN PERSON and virtually with Zoom until we make an announcement otherwise.
Meetings are held at Peachtree Road United Methodist Church in Heritage Hall on the 2nd Monday of each month.
Please see the Calendar for more details about scheduled events.
Meetings usually include interesting speakers and discussions on a variety of topics related to beekeeping, such as hive management, honey bee problems, honey, beeswax, and other hive products.
Meetings begin at 7:00 pm and conclude by 9:00 pm.
Come early for informal mentoring time from 6:30-7:00
Mentoring Topic: Swarm Control / Swarm Catching
Speaker: Olivia Menard – How Did They Figure That Out? (Historical Beekeeping Discoveries)
Meetings are currently being held IN PERSON and virtually with Zoom until we make an announcement otherwise.
Meetings are held at Peachtree Road United Methodist Church in Heritage Hall on the 2nd Monday of each month.
Please see the Calendar for more details about scheduled events.
Meetings usually include interesting speakers and discussions on a variety of topics related to beekeeping, such as hive management, honey bee problems, honey, beeswax, and other hive products.
Meetings begin at 7:00 pm and conclude by 9:00 pm.
Come early for informal mentoring time from 6:30-7:00
Mentoring Topic: Safety in the Bee Yard
Speaker: Georgia Zumwalt – Bee Photography
Meetings are currently being held IN PERSON and virtually with Zoom until we make an announcement otherwise.
Meetings are held at Peachtree Road United Methodist Church in Heritage Hall on the 2nd Monday of each month.
Please see the Calendar for more details about scheduled events.
Meetings usually include interesting speakers and discussions on a variety of topics related to beekeeping, such as hive management, honey bee problems, honey, beeswax, and other hive products.
Meetings begin at 7:00 pm and conclude by 9:00 pm.
Come early for informal mentoring time from 6:30-7:00
Mentoring Topic: Honey Harvesting
Speaker: TBD
Meetings are currently being held IN PERSON and virtually with Zoom until we make an announcement otherwise.
Meetings are held at Peachtree Road United Methodist Church in Heritage Hall on the 2nd Monday of each month.
Please see the Calendar for more details about scheduled events.
Meetings usually include interesting speakers and discussions on a variety of topics related to beekeeping, such as hive management, honey bee problems, honey, beeswax, and other hive products.
Meetings begin at 7:00 pm and conclude by 9:00 pm.
Come early for informal mentoring time from 6:30-7:00
Mentoring Topic: Summer Management
Speaker: TBD
Meetings are currently being held IN PERSON and virtually with Zoom until we make an announcement otherwise.
Meetings are held at Peachtree Road United Methodist Church in Heritage Hall on the 2nd Monday of each month.
Please see the Calendar for more details about scheduled events.
Meetings usually include interesting speakers and discussions on a variety of topics related to beekeeping, such as hive management, honey bee problems, honey, beeswax, and other hive products.
Meetings begin at 7:00 pm and conclude by 9:00 pm.
Come early for informal mentoring time from 6:30-7:00
Mentoring Topic: Varroa Monitoring & Control
Speaker: Linda Tillman/Gail Dean – Honey Show Preparations
Meetings are currently being held IN PERSON and virtually with Zoom until we make an announcement otherwise.
Meetings are held at Peachtree Road United Methodist Church in Heritage Hall on the 2nd Monday of each month.
Please see the Calendar for more details about scheduled events.
Meetings usually include interesting speakers and discussions on a variety of topics related to beekeeping, such as hive management, honey bee problems, honey, beeswax, and other hive products.
Meetings begin at 7:00 pm and conclude by 9:00 pm.
Come early for informal mentoring time from 6:30-7:00
Mentoring Topic: Pests
Speaker: TBD
Meetings are currently being held IN PERSON and virtually with Zoom until we make an announcement otherwise.
Meetings are held at Peachtree Road United Methodist Church in Heritage Hall on the 2nd Monday of each month.
Please see the Calendar for more details about scheduled events.
Meetings usually include interesting speakers and discussions on a variety of topics related to beekeeping, such as hive management, honey bee problems, honey, beeswax, and other hive products.
Meetings begin at 7:00 pm and conclude by 9:00 pm.
Come early for informal mentoring time from 6:30-7:00
Meetings are currently being held IN PERSON and virtually with Zoom until we make an announcement otherwise.
Meetings are held at Peachtree Road United Methodist Church in Heritage Hall on the 2nd Monday of each month.
Please see the Calendar for more details about scheduled events.
Meetings usually include interesting speakers and discussions on a variety of topics related to beekeeping, such as hive management, honey bee problems, honey, beeswax, and other hive products.
Meetings begin at 7:00 pm and conclude by 9:00 pm.
Come early for informal mentoring time from 6:30-7:00
MABA has been meeting on the third Tuesday of the month for a long time. The church has been gracious to offer us this time slot, and the meeting space in the church has come under much higher demand. As such, MABA agreed with the church to move our meeting to a new night.Starting in 2024, MABA will meet on the Second Monday of the month.Our first meeting in 2024 will be Monday, January 8.
We know this time will not work for all of our members, and we appreciate your understanding. Finding a meeting space for a club of our size is very difficult, and we are grateful to keep the space we have.Looking for a queen, bees, honey? See what members have on offer: https://metroatlantabeekeepers.org/buy-local-honey/
If you would like to reach out to a MABA member for help, then a great resource is the MABA Bee Neighbor List. This is a live document that we update with members’ information, including MABA members who are eager to help other beekeepers in need.
- To view the MABA Bee Neighbor List, the link is in the monthly newsletter for members.
- Sign up to be included on the MABA Bee Neighbor List.
The MABA 2024 Short Course in Beekeeping is on January 27, 2024.Please share this form with anyone you know, and on social media (Facebook, Nextdoor, et cetera) if they are interested in beekeeping. This event is our club’s biggest fundraiser for the year.
Membership not Required
Meetings are held at Peachtree Road United Methodist Church in Heritage Hall on the 2nd Monday of each month (starting in 2024). The Annual Picnic and Honey Contest held in September may be scheduled for a different day than the regular meeting day. Please see the Calendar for more details about scheduled events.
Meetings usually include interesting speakers and discussions on a variety of topics related to beekeeping, such as hive management, honey bee problems, honey, beeswax, and other hive products.
Meetings begin at 7:00 pm and conclude by 9:00 pm.
Come early for informal mentoring time from 6:30-7:00
Everyone interested in honey bees is welcome!
Get a field guide to local insects and use it on hikes. It is amazing how a little knowledge and familiarity can dispel a large amount of fear and repulsion. Let your friends know that these vegetarian honey bees are not out to get them. Rather, we depend on them for our standard of living. Allow a little wildness to creep back into your yard and garden. Dandelions and clover may look like weeds to you but to bees they are dinner. Avoid invasive and hybridized landscaping plants. Invasive plants force out native plants and reduce both quality bee forage and biodiversity. Hybridized plants don’t deliver the food that bees and pollinators need. For more information, click here and click here. Pesticides kill bugs. Bad bugs and good bugs. Bees are bugs. Got it? Good. Leave some bare patches of soil for ground dwelling bees. 70% of native bees are ground dwelling. Even Mason bees require mud to seal their brood. When sending greeting cards, include a package of bee friendly flower seeds If you know the beekeeper, you know the honey is local, it is not contaminated or mixed with corn syrup, and it has not been heated or ultra-filtered. And it might even contain nectar from flowers in your yard. Learn about the roles of bees that are not honey bees. There are about 4000 species of bee in North America alone and many of these pollinate crops better than honey bees do. They suffer from from many of the same diseases, poisons, and lack of forage that honey bees suffer from. Participate in the Great Georgia Pollinator Census
You don’t need to keep bees to help bees
Seek Knowledge
Share Knowledge
Walk on the Wild Side
Feed the Bees
Protect Our Native Ecosystem
Avoid Pesticides
Mud is Good
Gift Thoughtfully
Know Your Source
All Bees Are Valuable Pollinators
https://ggapc.org
