Maritime Bee Tour 2008 - Agenda and Registration Form

Maritime Bee Tour
Beyond The Hive – The Business of Value Adding

18 - 20 July 2008
Annapolis Valley, Nova Scotia
Hosted by the Nova Scotia Beekeepers Association

AGENDA

Friday July 18th
5:00 – 7:00 pm	Registration (Old Orchard Inn)
6:30 pm	Wine and Cheese Reception
7:30 pm	Evening Program – Reports and Provincial Updates
Saturday July 19th
before 8:30 am	Breakfast on your own
8:45 am	Load the Buses (Old Orchard Inn)
9:30 am	Tour – Just us Coffee
10:45 am	Tour – Tangled Gardens
12:30 pm	Lunch – Between the Bushes
1:30 pm	Tour - Blueberry Acres
3:00 pm	Tour – Fox Hill Cheese
4:30 pm	Tour – Gasperaux Winery
5:30 pm	Banquet – Gasperaux Winery (Guest Speaker: Christy Hiemstra)
8:00 pm	Return to the Old Orchard Inn

Guest Speaker:
Christy Hiemstra - Clovermead Bees & Honey, Aylmer, Ontario

Creating a buzz. That’s what Clovermead Bees & Honey know how to do very well. Christy and her husband Chris used an innovated marketing strategy to create additional value from the honey they produce. It has raised public awareness of the importance of honey bees in Ontario food production by educating and entertaining farm guests about the fascinating world of honey bees. The operation produces value-added honey spreads and offers a variety of interactive farm displays and tours for school groups and visitors.

Deadline for registration is 11 July 2008.
The 2008 Agenda and Registration Form is available as a PDF file (click here). It can be viewed and printed with the free Adobe Reader software.

A block of rooms is available at the Old Orchard Inn at a rate of $109/night. The cost for the tour is $70/person, and children under 12 are $15. Registration on or before Friday, July 11th, is required to confirm the numbers for buses and meals.

Please send payment of $70/person with registration to confirm your spot. Make cheques payable to: Nova Scotia Beekeepers Association (NSBA).

For more information, contact Lori Kittlisen in Debert, Nova Scotia, by fax at 902-662-2908 or email pl.kittilsen@ns.sympatico.ca.

Previous updates:
13 June 2008
Some additional information about the Bee Tour has just been received from Joanne Moran of the Nova Scotia Beekeeper Association:

The Registration Package will be out at the end of next week. Lori Kittilsen is putting that together. The Old Orchard Inn is the spot for hotel accommodation and buses have been hired for a tour of various spots in the Valley. The theme of the MBA Tour is Value Added with the guest speaker coming from Ontario. There will be a reception/session at the Old O on Friday night and the Tour Saturday with the final stop Gaspereau Vineyards where we will have a vineyard tour and then dinner and a speaker.

12 June 2008:
A reception will be held at the Old Orchard Inn on the Friday night, 18 July, with a guest speaker (to be announced) beginning at 7:00 p.m.

22 May 2008:
The Maritime Beekeepers Association 2008 “Bee Tour” (annual convention and field tour) will be hosted by the Nova Scotia Beekeepers Association on the weekend of 18-20 July 2008 in the Annapolis Valley area of Nova Scotia.

The Old Orchard Inn (Wolfville, Nova Scotia) has a block of rooms for the MBA. You can call them at 902-542-5751 or toll free at 1-800-561-8090. We understand that the special room price for beekeepers attending the Beet Tour is $109 + tax per night.

Stay tuned!
We’ll keep updating this post with any new information as it comes in.

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