Central Beekeepers Alliance

The first beekeeping vocational program in Canada for the education and training of commercial beekeepers will be offered at the Fairview campus of Grand Prairie Regional College (GPRC), Alberta, Canada. The college is now accepting applications for the program’s January 2012 launch.

In conjunction with CHC and CAPA Annual Meetings, the 2012 Canadian Beekeeping Annual Convention will be held on January 26-28, 2012. The convention and symposium is hosted by the Manitoba Beekeepers Association and will take place at the historic Fort Garry Hotel in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada,

Put it on your calendar — the Central Beekeepers Alliance members and guests will gather to enjoy a festive turkey dinner on the evening of Saturday, 17 December, 2011, in a private room at Frank’s Finer Diner, Fredericton, New Brunswick.

The next regular monthly meeting of the Central Beekeepers Alliance will be held on November 8th, 2011, at the Agricultural Research Centre on the Lincoln Road in Fredericton, New Brunswick. If you’re just getting started in beekeeping, this meeting will give you the opportunity to get together with some experienced beekeepers to ask questions. And [...]

As beekeepers know, bees are “just this magnificent little engineered thing, just perfect for all the things they can do.” As shown in the award-winning documentary, Silence of the Bees, honeybees are a wonder of design. The anatomy of the honey bee is perfectly suited to its many functions in Nature.