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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/

Learn about winter feeding with the Beekeepers’

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Punxsutawney Phil might have predicted an early spring this past Ground Hog day, but we as beekeepers know that winter is an unpredictable beast.

Learn how you can help your bees make it through the winter to that first spring flow.

Steven Davis will be presenting “Winter Feeding and Bee Nutrition” at this months meeting of the Leatherstocking Beekeepers’ Association. Learn the best type of feed to use at this dangerous part of the winter, what nutrition they need as the prepare for the spring build-up, and how to deliver it to our winter bees.

The meeting will be held in the ‘back room’ of the main barn at The Farmers’ Museum, at 5775, State Highway 80, Cooperstown at 7 p.m.

There’s still time to register for the “To Bee or Not to Bee: Introduction to Beekeeping Short Course” to be held February 24, 2024 from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Attendees will learn the basics of how to take care of the bees in their first year. The $45 fee includes snacks, lunch, and a book on beekeeping. And if you attend the March meeting, we will be raffling off free bees, courtesy of Kutik’s Everything Bees (must be a members of the association to qualify).

We’ll Bee seeing you there!

Special December Meeting

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Join the Leatherstocking Beekeepers’ December meeting for a Beekeepers raffle and get Bee gift ideas for things you can make from your hive ahead of the holidays.

All followed by an open forum sharing highlights from this season’s adventures in the bee yard. Bring one of your memorable moments or two.

Meeting is held Monday, December 4, at 7 p.m. at The Farmers’ Museum, Cooperstown.