Welcome to the Beekeepers Association of the Ozarks! We are dedicated to helping beekeepers keep bees. We share ideas and suggestions that help all who are interested in beekeeping. We offer free classes in the spring for new beekeepers and meet once a month to discuss techniques and ideas. If you are interested in becoming a beekeeper please join our club. If you are a beekeeper you should already be a member and trade ideas and solutions to beekeeping problems. Together we can ensure the survival of a beneficial insect.
for hosting our spring 2010 Outing. Rain threatened early and kept a few people from attending. We still had a decent turnout and new beekeepers (and some not so new) learned a few things while going through Jack's hives. The bees cooperated and as John Deeds has been telling everyone, "those are the gentlest bees I've ever seen". Harry Martin shows just how gentle they are by "kissing" some of them. Jack, you better keep an eye on them or they may elope.
Thanks to Val Nichols for hosting a queen rearing class. Thanks to Ken Norman for sharing his queen rearing techniques. We had a wonderful time at Val's learning about raising your own queens. I'm not sure about the total turnout but there where around 20 interested people there. Three generations of Deeds where represented. Everyone got a chance to practice at grafting larvae into cell cups.
One of the nights had 96 people. While some were members a lot where potentially new beekeepers. I hope that we presented our information so that they will continue to be interested. In that regard, anyone that has suggestions for next year's classes please let us know. Without your help we cannot improve. We encourage all to join our club to learn and to teach the art of beekeeping.
