Central Beekeepers Alliance

Trump Eats Honey

On Sunday, 11 February, on NBC television’s The Apprentice: L.A. show, two teams of contestants competed to harvest, pack, label and sell Sue Bee Honey — all to please billionaire Donald Trump, and avoid hearing him say, “You’re fired!” Check out Donald Trump’s favourite honey recipes on the SueBee site: “You’re Fired Hot Wings” and [...]

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New Brunswick Beekeeping Workshop

Saturday, 10 March 2007 Beekeeping Workshop Agricultural Research Centre, Fredericton, NB 1:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Fletcher Colpitts, the Chief Apiary Inspector for NB, will be presenting a beekeeping workshop on Saturday, 10 March 2007, from 1:00 to 4:00 pm. Location: NB Department of Agriculture and Agriculture, 850 Lincoln Road, Fredericton. Enter at back of [...]

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Ukrainian Beekeeping Museum

CBA member Dave McKinney has found an interesting site with 70 photographs in a slideshow that gives Virtual Tour of the Prokopovych Beekeeping Museum in Kyiv, Ukraine. Photos by jcaldeira.

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NBBA Closes its Bee Store

Notice to New Brunswick Beekeepers: The NBBA has closed its Bee Store in Maugerville effective Jan. 31/07. This decision was made at the Board of Directors’ Meeting on Dec. 18/06. The details of the closure were negotiated by a Committee with Ruth and Cathy McKinney in January. Cathy McKinney will continue a Bee Supply Store, [...]

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Mysterious Honey Bee Die-Off Alarms Beekeepers, Agriculture Industry

PRESS RELEASE January 29 , 2007 Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) College of Agricultural Sciences HONEY BEE DIE-OFF ALARMS BEEKEEPERS, CROP GROWERS AND RESEARCHERS UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — An alarming die-off of honey bees has beekeepers fighting for commercial survival and crop growers wondering whether bees will be available to pollinate their crops this spring [...]

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