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New Honey Bee Exhibits at Canada’s Virtual Museum & Agriculture Museum

workerbeej — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 13:10:00 +0000

The Canadian Agriculture Museum in Ottawa announces a new exhibit to celebrate and educate the public about honey bees and beekeeping in Canada.
Taking Care of Beesness opens March 1st, 2010 — just in time to welcome March break visitors to the nation’s capital, if you’re heading that way — and it runs until October 2010.

Discover the essential role bees play in the pollination of many Canadian food crops such as blueberries and apples, as well as to the production of honey and many other by-products, while you explore the role and the tools of the beekeeper. Check out the Museum’s live hive arriving in May and try to find the queen among all the workers and drones.

Not travelling to Ottawa?

You can still enjoy Bees, a Honey of an Idea, a new interactive “virtual” exhibit about bees, pollination, and apiculture presented by the Virtual Museum of Canada (VMC) and the Canadian Agriculture Museum.

Don’t miss the Hive Inspection Video, yummy honey recipes, and some great activities for school teachers, parents, and students of all ages… and maybe the rest of us, too!

New Honey Bee Exhibits at Canada’s Virtual Museum & Agriculture Museum was written and published by the Central Beekeepers Alliance - Honey Bees & Beekeeping in New Brunswick, Canada. For more information, please visit http://cba.stonehavenlife.com.

New Website for City Beekeepers

workerbeej — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 09:06:21 +0000

A new online community dedicated to urban (and suburban) beekeepers, has just been announced. Site owner Michael Franklin, a landscape designer and “beekeeping enthusiast” from Louisiana, says he hopes UrbanApis will grow into “a place where beekeeping hobbyists can exchange information to help them become better beekeepers and connect with other enthusiasts in their area.”

Some of the features he’s been working on:

Original Articles — improve your skills and knowledge
Municipal Codes Search — to find out the codes related to beekeeping in your area, including state regulations where applicable
Hive Diaries — keep track of your activity or publish photos for everyone to see
Retail Directory — find supplies online
Message Boards — get in touch with other urban beekeepers and trade experiences

The site is just getting started –it launches officially on 1 February 2009 — so the information is still sparse (and much of it is specific to beekeepers in the United States), but this seems to be one of the few websites that sets out with a focus on urban beekeeping. City-dwellers with bees or an interest in keeping honeybees can check out this new community at www.UrbanApis.com.

New Website for City Beekeepers was written and published by the Central Beekeepers Alliance - Honey Bees & Beekeeping in New Brunswick, Canada. For more information, please visit http://cba.stonehavenlife.com.

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Bee Talk: New Forum is Open

workerbeej — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 13:13:22 +0000

Do you want to:

ask a question about bees or beekeeping?
make a comment?
share something you’ve read, heard about, or seen on the Web?
float an idea?
get a second opinion?
or, just chat about strange doings in your beeyard?

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.

~~Stay tuned — it’s coming soon!~~
Check it out!

Bee Talk: New Forum is Open was written and published by the Central Beekeepers Alliance - Honey Bees & Beekeeping in New Brunswick, Canada. For more information, please visit http://cba.stonehavenlife.com.