PCBA Speaker/Vendor Event - 2022

1001 Beulah Avenue,Pueblo CO 81004

26 February, 2022

Description

We will have 6 nationally known and respected Beekeepers speaking regarding topics of interest to beekeepers. We will have 6 nationally known and respected beekeepers speaking who will present topics to increase your knowledge and skills in the bee yard. Randy Oliver: Randy Oliver sees beekeeping through the eyes of a biologist, building a small commercial beekeeping enterprise in the foothills of Northern California. His sons now manage around 1500 colonies for migratory pollination, and produce queens, nucs, and honey, freeing Randy to engage full-time in beekeeper-funded research projects. Randy analyzes and digests the scientific research, and is in touch with beekeepers and researchers from all over the world, in order to not only broaden his own depth of knowledge, but to figure out best management practices for beekeepers everywhere, which he then happily shares through his various articles in bee magazines, speaking engagements, and on his website www.scientificbeekeeping.com Speech topic: TBA Thomas D. Seeley: Thomas D. Seeley is the Horace White Professor in Biology at Cornell University. His research focuses on the behavior, social life, and ecology of honey bees. He has been an avid beekeeper since he was 16, hence for nearly 50 years. He is the author of several books on bees, including Honeybee Democracy (2010), and Following the Wild Bees (2016), and, The Lives of Bees: The Untold Story of Honey Bees in the Wild (2019). For fun, besides beekeeping he enjoys bee trapping (catching swarms in bait hives) and bee hunting (finding wild colonies by bee lining). He lives in Ithaca, New York. Speech topic: TBA Keith Novak: I am married to Kari Novak who creates and sells honey and products made with beeswax and/or honey. We sell honey, some infused honey, beeswax, candles and other items made with our beeswax. Our name is K & K Honey. I have three sons; William, Drake and Noah. I have been keeping bees since 1993. I am a full-time firefighter for the city of Pueblo and I live in Pueblo West currently. I have had bees in the farms out in the county, in the city, in Pueblo West and in Penrose. I have worked with Carniolans, Italians, Russians, Caucasians, Midnites (Carniolan and Caucasian hybrid), Saskatraz, the German Black Bee, and others, but obviously the main five. I have also had an experience with numerous Buckfast bees, one in which they had Africanized genes. My tutors were Ronald Dowd and Ernie Green, both of which have since passed away. I am an avid reader, especially concerning bees, or beekeeping. I consider myself a practical beekeeper, i.e., always analyzing new techniques, equipment or methods to constantly improve efficiency, so long as it does not disrupt the bees. I have also, over the years, introduced and taught beekeeping to new beekeepers, andhave a youtube channel that strives to make beekeeping easier and more practical for new beekeepers. I have witnessed many mistakes that new beekeepers tend to make and as such come up with material to help in those areas. My youtube channel is: Honey Bee Honey. Speech Topic: TBD Don Hall: Dons fascination with honey bees began as a young child on the banks of Brazos River in TX. He has 18 years of keeping bees, honey bee removal across several states, and helping hundreds of people per year begin their own beekeeping journey has become his mission. Don works with his wife Wendy operating Burley Bees in Canon City Colorado for the past 9 years producing local honey and bees along the Arkansas River. This passion has evolved into extracting feral colonies to diversify the makeup of their apiaries. Don strives to produce a more local and productive colonies through the use of feral genetics. Don and Wendy are proud to be a part of the Colorado Beekeeping community and always amazed at the diverse group of people that beekeeping brings together. Speech topic: Creating a sustainable backyard apiary & raising queens Mike Palmer: Mike Palmer grew up in New York City and as a child was fascinated by all the plants, insects and animals all around him. He then went on to study in Vermont where he met and fell in love with his wife Lesley and with the local countryside and he decided to stay. He first started keeping bees in 1974 with varying success. Then in 1998 he decided to change the way he overwintered his bees and he began to concentrate on the quality of his bees and not the quantity. Today Mike raises about 1200 queens a year and manages over 1000 colonies and is widely recognized as a worldwide authority on sustainable beekeeping. He has built up French Hill apiaries into the successful farm that it is today. Speech Topic: Wintering nucleus colonies, presentation will highlight setup, use, and management of brood factories. Tina Sebestyen: Tina keeps bees in top bar, Langstroth, and long Langstroth hives. She learned beekeeping from wonderful mentors, “old guys”, as well as through mentoring as founder of the Four Corners Beekeepers Assoc. She is past vice president of the Colorado State Beekeepers Assoc. and is currently working to produce the Master Beekeeper Program for the state of Colorado. She writes for the American Bee Journal and Bee Culture magazines (along with some bee journals from abroad) from her farm in SW Colorado, and speaks about bees everywhere she gets the chance. She can be reached at [email protected] Speech Topic: TBA This event is $20 to current Pueblo County Beekeepers Association members with a promo code. The cost is $30 to non-members or you can pay $45 for the event and a one year membership to the Pueblo County Beekeepers Association. That's a $10 discount on regular membership prices. Several area vendors for beekeeping supplies, honey and related products will be at the event. Vendor spaces are available for $30.