Update (October 2011):
Regrettably, we have once again had to remove the Bee Talk forum from the Central Beekeepers’ website. As with many forums and message boards, Bee Talk has been repeatedly hit with unsavoury commercial messages — most of which have nothing to do with the care and management of honey bees, resources for beekeepers, or beekeeping activities. An increasing percentage of these “spam” posts are also not what you might call “family friendly” in content. Moderation of these nuisance posts over the years has become increasingly demanding — especially for a site that’s run entirely by volunteer help — and it is now simply too time-consuming to justify the continuation of the Bee Talk forum. Our apologies for any inconvenience — you can blame the spammers, as is so often the case, for spoiling it for everyone else. Thank you, beekeepers, for your past contributions to Bee Talk. Please feel free to continue to add your knowledge and insights to the beekeeping conversation by using the comments sections at the end of each of our articles. Comments will appear on the website once they have been approved by the webmaster.
About the CBA Bee Talk Forum
Some of you may remember, years ago, when we had a forum? If so, you may recall that it was quite a job to keep the inappropriate spam ads from getting posted faster than we could take them down! That’s why the old forum was discontinued in the first place — it was hard to keep it “family friendly” for beekeepers because of ads for websites you really wouldn’t want to have to see!
Technology has come a long way in the last few years, however, so we thought we’d give it another try! In order to participate on the new forum, you’ll first have to register (free) and the system will send you a password to use whenever you want to leave a message or reply to someone else’s message on the forum. Hopefully that will help to keep the bad guys away!
Having our own CBA Bee Talk message board again should make it just a bit easier for you to talk about bees and beekeeping together, and to exchange advice, share our news, problems/solutions, and other beekeeping ideas.
Go ahead — check it out! :)
Sounds like a great format for discussion Rebecca! Can’t wait to see how it works.
I am looking for an antique or vintage honey tin from the provinces of New Brusnwick and Nova Scotia for an exhibit on beekeeping in Canada “Taking Care of Beezness” that I am curating at the Canada Agriculture Museum in Ottawa. The gist of the concept is to have a tine from each of the provinces to make the point that beekeeping is practiced accross the country. The exhibit opens in March 2010 so I am beginning to feel worried that those two provinces’s beekeepers will not be represented. Please e-mail me if you can help!
Thank you;
Franz
I would like to wish everyone a successful year beekeepping in 2010.
The new forum is up and running now.
Go check it out – a Bee Talk Forum link is up at the top of the web page!