Classes and Events

Trees and Shrubs for Pollinators at the January Meeting

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Join the Leatherstocking Beekeepers’ Association for their January meeting featuring Lacey Smith, Partner Biologist with the Pollinator Partnership.

Smith will be presenting “Trees and Shrubs for Pollinators” via Zoom.
Come and learn how we can #savethebees in our own backyards by planting things that will sustain them throughout the warmer seasons.

The January meeting of the Leatherstocking Beekeepers’ Association will be held at 7 p.m. on January 23, 2025 in the Main Barn at the Fenimore Farm and Country Village (formerly the Farmers’ Museum) at 5775 State Highway 80, Cooperstown. This meeting will be a hybrid in-person/Zoom meeting. Click the link to join online: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81525454654?pwd=pVSgH3hPaSN23bp4TpamL2GGxJSeqH.1

Smith is a partner biologist with the Pollinator Partnership, an non-profit that works with farmers, gardeners, land managers, scientists, and industry to develop tools and programs that help keep pollinators safe from pesticides, habitat loss, climate change, and other threats. Learn more about the partnership at: https://www.pollinator.org/

Thank you attendees to the “To Bee or Not to Bee” short course

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The Leatherstocking Beekeepers’ Association would like to thank the more than 40 attendees of our “To Bee or Not to Bee” Introduction to Beekeeping short course on Saturday, February 24.

Together we learned about our insect friends the Apis mellifera who are responsible for pollinating so much of our food crops, what is needed for us to care for them as beekeepers, and some of the challenges they face.

As each of us contemplate the coming year here are a few reminders from the class.

Our next meeting will be held at 7 p.m. on Thursday March 28 at The Farmers’ Museum, Cooperstown. (The meeting will be held in the back classroom due to an event the museum is holding.) At this next meeting we will be raffling off a nucleus to an attending member of the association. This is a great opportunity to either expand the apiary or get a jump start on a new beekeeping endeavor.

The Beekeepers’ will have a booth at the OCCA Earth day festival on April 20. We look forward to seeing you there. If a member would like to help staff it please contact our secretary Richard Lercari at honeychef3@gmail.com.

Check back here and on the facebook page for other beekeeping news.

We look forward to seeing you again and welcome to the Leatherstocking Beekeepers’ Association.