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BANV Elections - Jan 2012
Nominations are open for club officers for the next 2-year term (2012-2013). All five positions [Pres; 1stVP; 2ndVP; Sec'y; Treas] shall be filled. See the Constitution/ByLaws (sidebar link) for duties. You may nominate others (with their consent) or yourself at club meetings up through the January session when voting occurs or contact a member of the Nominating Committee to add your name to the ballot. If you have questions, contact Rob McKinney (robcmckinney@aol.com).
The BANV membership year is January through December. Please download, print and fill out the membership form. Then mail it along with applicable membership and subscription dues to: BANV, 2451 S. Culpper St, Arlington VA 22206
See the complete BANV schedule Here
Congratulations !!
Frank Linton - the newest member to hold the title: EAS Master Beekeeper
Study Guide for Qualified Beekeeper portion of the Virginia Master Beekeeper's Exam
Watch this space for future exam dates and locations
Come to the February 28th Roving Round Table
Highlights
Meet the Regional Queen Breeders
Mike Thomas of Bjorn Apiaries, Dillsburg, PA (near Gettysburg)
Don & Angie Heishman from Wardensville, WV (west of Strasburg & Front Royal);
Billy Davis, Sustainable Honeybee program Inc., of Hamilton, VA (just west of Leesburg)
Adam Finklestein from VP Queen Bees of Frederick Md.
DIFFERERNT
DAY!!! AND LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION
Wednsday, Nov.
17th, Thomas Jefferson Library,
7415 Arlington Boulevard, Falls
Church, VA 22042-7409
On the south side of Rt. 50
between Loehman's Plaza and the turn to FCHS. Turn at the light just past
Loehman's (west-bound) or just past the library (east-bound).
The Public is Welcome
See: http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/library/branches/
Question: Where can you find beekeeping know-how specific
to northern Virginia?
Answer: Beltway Bees!
http://beltwaybees. wetpaint. com
What to do and when to do it? These are key questions for beekeepers everywhere.
The answers, however, depend on where your bees live; honey bee ecosystems,
including forage and weather, are location-specific. BANV is pleased to announce
that northern Virginia beekeepers now have a place to find beekeeping know-how
specific to northern Virginia: the Beltway Bees wiki at
http://beltwaybees. wetpaint. com
Take a look. Have you completed this month's tasks?
(Hint: The menu is on the left. Click on "Annual Cycle".)
Notice too, that the website is a wiki. That means that anyone, even you, can
make changes to the information posted there. If something is wrong, you can
correct it; if something is missing, you can add it. Do you have photos of the
nectar sources mentioned? Videos of the beekeeping activities described?
URLs of great references? To start contributing, click on
[Join Now] in the upper right corner of the web page.
Frank Linton
Local Honey!
The term "local" is somewhat subjective depending on the context. If we had any Martian honey, then from a galactic perspective, that would be "local". From the BANV perspective (and to hopefully avoid much argument), we consider our local honey to have been produced by honeybees north of Richmond, Va.; south of Harrisburg, Pa.; west of the Chesapeake Bay; and east of an imaginary line that meanders from about Hancock, Md., through Romney, WVa., and down to Staunton (pronounced stant-en, so get it right), Va.
We'll have a page here (soon?) listing our members' contact information who may be directly contacted and who are more than happy to talk about just how "local" their honey is and if/how they might blend the honeys from their various apiaries in the region to reach the particular character of their honey that they are working for.
In the meantime, please visit your local Farmers' Market or contact the administration to see if they have a local beekeeper selling honey. One of the best starting points is: http://dc.about.com/od/farmersmarkets/a/FarmersMktVA.htm.
Remember: Enjoy Natural Foods, Eat your Local Honey every Day.
For lots of information and ideas about honey and its uses, see the National Honey Board's site at: http://www.honey.com/
Recent (or not so recent but still intreresting)Publications:
The Perfect Pursuit In This Urban Hive
A Growing Buzz Surrounds the Increasing Number of Capital Beekeepers
Washington Post Staff Writer===============================================================================
- In the interest of all our members and visitors being as fully
informed as possible, all should be aware of the following.
The District of Columbia Municipal Regulations (DCMR) states in
Title 24, Chapter 9, Section 904:
"904.1 No bees or hives of bees shall be permitted to be kept when there
are human habitations within a radius of five hundred feet (500 ft.)."
[Reference URL:http://os.dc.
gov/os/frames. asp?doc=/ os/lib/os/ info/odai/ title_24/ title24_chapter9.pdf
- corrected 7-11-09]