Central Maryland Beekeepers Association

CMBA Board of Directors Meeting
2024-08-15 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York)
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Hereford Junior Farm Fair
2024-08-03 09:00 - 17:00 | Baltimore County Agricultural Research Center, 1114 Shawan Road, Cockeysville, MD, 21230, United States
Saturday, August 3, 2024 from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm
The Fair is held at the Baltimore County Agriculture Center, 1114 Shawan Rd in Cockeysville/Hunt Valley, MD. Children of Baltimore County are showing their indoor exhibits and their livestock.
Central Maryland Beekeepers Association will be providing an educational exhibit explaining the different aspects of beekeeping, an important part of agriculture. This Fair is open to all spectators, there is no admission fee.

Eastern Apiculture Society Annual Conference
2024-08-02 - 2024-08-09 | Turf Valley Resort, 2700 Turf Valley Road, Ellicott City, 21042, United States
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CMBA Board of Directors Meeting
2024-07-18 19:00 - 20:00
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CMBA Board of Directors Meeting
2024-06-20 19:00 - 20:00
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Time: Jun 20, 2024 07:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

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Monthly Membership Meeting
2024-06-05 19:00 - 21:00 | Baltimore County Agricultural Research Center, 1114 Shawan Road, Cockeysville, MD, 21030, United States
Making a New Queen for $20

Description: Are you a 2nd or 3rd year beekeeper and want to make some queens for your own use or a few to sell? Queen rearing isn’t that hard and you can do it for under $20 in new supplies. Learn some simple tips and tricks to make the whole process easier skipping a lot of trial and error.
Bio: Russell Sprangel started keeping bees in 2017 with a hive setup and a new beekeeper’s course as a Christmas present, from his wife Lisa, which she totally regrets to this day. He is the past VP and President of CCBA and past Vice President of HCBA. He is an EAS Master Beekeeper, certified in Ithaca, NY in 2022. He teaches during the beekeeping calendar in the clubs training Apiary, all any aspects of beekeeping students ask for.

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CMBA Board of Directors Meeting
2024-05-16 19:00 - 20:00
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Monthly Membership Meeting
2024-05-07 19:00 - 21:00 | Baltimore County Agricultural Research Center, 1114 Shawan Road, Cockeysville, MD, 21030, United States
Speaker: Elaine Storm
As a former part-time school teacher, I have a passion for learning and for teaching. We have a small farm and although none of our 7 grandchildren have yet been interested in working the honeybee hives, they do love petting all the other animals we’ve got.
My husband and I have been working bees for about 15 years. Although my husband is the main beekeeper, I do help work the hives, have attended beekeeping courses and have the hands-on experience. Three years ago, I attended the Eastern Apicultural Society’s Bee Conference, where I began my Apitherapy journey. Since then, I have attended more Apitherapy conferences and have become passionate about how all the products from the hive can benefit us in health and healing ways. From pollen, honey, and propolis to royal jelly and drone brood homogenate – the bees can help keep not only their own hives healthy but share their products with us so we might also gain some health benefits.
From making tinctures, to bee sting therapy, to collecting recipes for healing, I’m passionate about it all! My goal is to learn enough about Apitherapy to help relieve pain that people may be suffering from and to do that in an easy, natural way.
As a beekeeping community, we are able to have multiple medicine cabinets in our own backyards!

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CMBA Board of Directors Meeting
2024-04-18 19:00 - 20:00
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Monthly Membership Meeting
2024-04-02 19:00 - 21:00 | Baltimore County Agricultural Research Center, 1114 Shawan Road, Cockeysville, MD, 21030, United States
Speaker: Charles DeBarber
Topic: “Swarms, Cutouts & Bait Boxes”
Charles DeBarber is the Animal Husbandry Coordinator at the Filbert Street Garden in Baltimore City. He is President of the Filbert Street Garden Bee Club and manages the largest beeyard in the City of Baltimore. Charles has been keeping bees for 9 years and is an avid local swarm catcher. He has traveled extensively meeting urban beekeepers from Kyoto to Cozumel. Mr. DeBarber loves to learn about the history of early industrial beekeeping and is an avid collector of antique and vintage equipment.

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CMBA Board of Directors Meeting
2024-03-21 19:00 - 20:00, 2024-02-15 19:00 - 20:00, 2024-01-18 19:00 - 20:00
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Beekeeping 101 Course
2024-03-09 09:00 - 12:30, 2024-03-02 09:00 - 12:30, 2024-02-24 09:00 - 12:30, 2024-02-23 08:00 - 17:00 | Baltimore County Agricultural Research Center, 1114 Shawan Road, Cockeysville, MD, 21030, United States
Beekeeping 101 Short Course will be held in-person only, at the Ag Center. Advanced registration required
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Monthly Members Meeting
2024-03-05 19:00 - 21:00 | Baltimore County Agricultural Research Center, 1114 Shawan Road, Cockeysville, MD, 21230, United States
A Bee’s Eye View of Nucs and How they Adapt – a talk about making up nucs, bee math and keeping the bees in sync with their natural age related job progression to lower the stresses of building a strong healthy colony. Using nucs as a first aid kit, queen rearing, queen mating, queen introduction and overwintering are covered.
John Benham has been a full time beekeeper for over 24 years, operating 40 colonies and a breeder of quality queens and bees for over 20 years. He is an Eastern Apiculture Society Certified Master Beekeeper and Life Member of EAS. He is the President of the Mammoth Cave Area Beekeepers 2017 to present, past member, President/officer of four local associations since 2004, 2015 Kentucky State Beekeepers President, 2015 Kentucky State Beekeeper of the Year and a life member and advisor of the Kentucky Queen Bee Breeders Association. He shares his knowledge and love for the bees as a mentor, speaker, instructor, volunteer and organizer at state, local, regional and national associations. Of all of John’s accomplishments as a beekeeper, he is most proud of his survivor stock apiaries populated by locally trapped bees and local open mated queens where he annually produces well over twice the state average of honey per colony and is a past winner of two blue ribbons at the Kentucky State Fair.

Membership Meeting
2024-02-06 19:00 - 21:00 | Baltimore County Agricultural Research Center, 1114 Shawan Road, Cockeysville, MD, 21230, United States
This talk shows a year of activities in our bee yard by month and should give you the opportunity to see how we time our year of activities. The goal is to encourage you to plan YOUR BEE activities for the upcoming season. We will review how to make an action plan that meets your personal goals.
Kimberly Mehalick BioKim Mehalick is an engineer by day and beekeeper by night and weekend. Kim is an EAS Master Beekeeper. She is the past President of the Maryland State Beekeepers Association (MSBA) and is active in BUMBA (mentoring program lead, manager of the teaching apiary), AABA (program lead) and DC beekeeping (education committee). She is also a member of MCBA and CCBA. She regularly teaches in short courses in a variety of topics.Kim has worked to increase education opportunities within MSBA, and developed the popular nucs and splits class. She was the driving force behind the Beekeeping Year 2 and Beyond ten session class, which became a reality once Mike Mehalick and Allen Storm joined the development/teaching team. We won the MSBA George Imirie Award for Education excellence in Nov 2023Kim is also a lifetime member of EAS. Her favorite part of beekeeping, after mentoring new beekeepers, is making queens through a variety of backyard beekeeper methods. Sharing the wonder of opening a hive, and discovering how the bees think is a wonderful thing to do.Kim and Mike Mehalick keep about 100 hives on their property and various outyards as part of their “The Queen’s Honey” apiary. They run primarily medium equipment and sell nucs each spring. Since 2013, they have also sold hive products from their company Clean Bee Soapworks including honey, bees, soap, lotions, bath bombs and lip balms.

CMBA Board of Directors Meeting
2023-12-21 19:00 - 21:00, 2023-11-16 19:00 - 21:00

CMBA Members Only Annual Meeting
2023-12-05 19:00 - 21:00 | Baltimore County Agricultural Research Center, 1114 Shawan Road, Cockeysville, MD, 21230, United States
Tuesday, December 5, 2023, 7pm to 9pm
In-person only members meeting for:
(1) President’s Stewardship Report,
(2) Treasurer’s Report, and
(3) Election of officers: the President, Vice President, Secretary, and Treasurer

Join us in the Nuc Yard
2023-10-21 09:00 - 11:00, 2023-09-09 09:00 - 11:00 | Baltimore County Agricultural Research Center, 1114 Shawan Road, Cockeysville, MD, 21230, United States

Join Us in the Nuc Yard
2023-10-07 09:00 - 11:00, 2023-09-21 09:00 - 10:00

Monthly Members Meeting
2023-10-03 07:00 - 21:00, 2023-09-05 07:00 - 21:00 | Baltimore County Agricultural Research Center, 1114 Shawan Road, Cockeysville, MD, 21230, United States

Teaching Apiary/Nuc Yard
2023-07-23
8:00 AM to 10:00 AM

CMBA Members Meeting
2023-07-18 18:00 - 20:00
CMBA Members Meeting
Maryland Agricultural Resource Center
1114 Shawan Road
Cockeysville, Maryland
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