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Central Maryland Beekeepers Association

To educate the public about the importance of the honeybee to agriculture and life in general, to promote the benefits of eating locally produced honey, and to provide current information necessary to manage a colony of honeybees on a continuing basis.

CMBees

Who is CMBA?

Central Maryland Beekeepers Association is a 501(c)(3) educational tax-exempt organization. Our members include beekeepers and honeybee enthusiasts of all backgrounds and levels of experience.

ATTENTION:
Baltimore, Harford, Carroll County and Baltimore City Students!

You get a FREE One Year Membership with us.
Please contact membership for more information.

Beekeeping 101 Class

Now accepting registration

This course will provide you with the basic concepts and practices for starting and maintaining a colony of bees. Our class meets once a week for 3 weeks.

Feb 24th, March 2nd, and March 9th 2024.
Saturday mornings, 9AM – 12:30PM Eastern

Community

We are here to serve our membership community in learning the most current information necessary to manage their honeybees and encourage connecting beekeepers with each other to share their knowledge. We are here to educate the public community about the importance of the honeybee to agriculture and life in general, and to promote the benefits of eating locally produced honey.

Education

We offer an annual basic beekeeping course, monthly meetings that include speakers or demonstrations with local and or nationally renowned beekeepers and or other related experts in their field, a teaching apiary for members, and our monthly newsletter “the Hive Tool” packed with the latest news articles for beekeepers.

Resources

CMBA offers its members ongoing learning opportunities, an extensive lending library of books and more, honey extraction equipment rentals, and our greatest resource of all: our beekeeper community!

and so much more!

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Central Maryland Beekeepers Association

Anyone interested in learning about honeybees or beekeeping can join!