Attention all  beekeepers!
(or just people who are interested in bees!)

The 2013 CMBA Short Course, taught by Jerry Fischer, the chief bee inspector for the State of MD, is coming up soon. This course will provide you with the basic concepts and management practices for maintaining a colony of bees. The course meets once a week for 6 weeks and is held every spring. Please see details here.

Steve McDaniel, CMBA life member, past CMBA president and master beekeeper, is teaching a two-day Short Course at the Irvine Nature Center in Owings Mills 16 & 23 March.  For dates and details write Courtney Sagal at the Irvine Nature Center, or call 443-738-9224, Or you can write Steve directly for more information. Or look here.

David Papke, past CMBA president, will be teaching a 6-session monthly hive management course starting in March 2013. The course is both discussion on current topics for that time of year as well as hands-on practice at his apiary in Shrewsbury, PA. Details are here, or you can write David to get on the mailing list .