September 6: Randy Oliver, Scientific Beekeeping (with Sat Sept 8 workshops)
October 4: Elina Nino, UC Davis Apiculture Extension and Research, “Effects of supplemental forage on honey bees”
November 1: Janice Cox, Natural Beauty at Home, “Apiary Beauty” (with Sat Nov 3 workshops)
December 6: Panel discussion on hive designs
January 3: Ramesh Sagili, Oregon State University, Department of Horticulture, “Honey bee nutrition: what we know, what we need to know”
February 7: Leo Sharaskin, Horizontal Hives, “Natural beekeeping” (with Sat Feb 9 workshops), “Selling Honey for $20/lb: Crafting and Marketing a Premium Product”
Learn how your hive management choices affect the honey, how to produce the highest-quality honey with highest nutritional value, and how to market it successfully at the premium prices it deserves. **Note: Charles Kennard will also be doing a skep weaving workshop that weekend.
March 7: Billy Synk, Director of Pollination Programs, Project Apis m, “Supporting Pollinator Habitat”
April 4: Rachael Bonoan, Post doctoral researcher, Tufts University and Washington State University, “Why bees like dirty water”
May 2: Mark Winston, FRSC, Professor and Senior Fellow at the Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue, Simon Fraser University: Listening to the Bees: Mark Winston, a naturalist, scientist and author of the Governor General’s Literary Nonfiction Award-winning book, Bee Time: Lessons from the Hive, has joined forces with celebrated poet Renée Sarojini Saklikar. This talk, and the book, grew from their common passion for bees, an exploration of the intricate ways we come to understand our world through language and through science. In Listening to the Bees Winston will talk about his experiences over 40 years of walking into apiaries, and the lessons learned from a life spent among the bees.
“Listening to the bees connects us to the ineffable mysteries we will never resolve or fully understand. As a scientist, I find it oddly satisfying that data and studies can only take us so far, that there is a realm where there are no answers, only wonder at how little we can know.”
June 6: Tom Seeley, Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, Cornell University, “Darwinian beekeeping”
July: No meeting (Marin County Fair)
August: Annual potluck