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November 12, 2022, 6-8pm Our final meeting is the year is the pot luck banquet. Are you on the fence about coming? Don’t be! Lots of fun planned including the honey contest with a $200 Best Honey and $100 Peoples choice prize gift certificates from Mann Lake! We also have great auction items including a cool Nucleus Hive from Peter Somers, 2 bee packages from David Bench, a 4-frame Manual extractor from Harvest Lane Honey, that beautiful bee skep quilt from our own Rosemary Bennett and lots more!

Come one! Come All! Join us for our annual Potluck Dinner, Officer Elections and Honey Contest! Must be a dues paid member to attend, dues may be paid at the door and will be good through 2023.

When registering, choose which food item you want to bring and in the comments you can indicate what you are bringing. THEN if you want to enter the honey contest as well, hit the ADD MORE ITEMS button and choose honey contest. You may enter as many jars as you’d like.

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Dinner: Bring a dish to share. The Association will provide the main dishes, drinks and paper goods. Sign up below for a salad, side dish or dessert!

Honey Contest: All entries must be in 16oz clear glass mason jars. NO LABELS ALLOWED. Entries will be submitted at the door.

Officer Elections: If you are interested in volunteering next year please send Julie Cies Arthur a message or comment below and we will be happy to talk to you about the opportunities! We ALWAYS need more volunteers!

Date: 11/12/2022 (Sat.)
Time: 6:00pm – 8:00pm
Cottonwood Heights City Hall
Community Room
2277 E Bengal Blvd, Salt Lake City, UT 84020

Join us for our 2019 potluck dinner and election!

Friday, November 15, from 6:30–9:30 PM

Cottonwood Heights City Hall
2277 E Bengal Blvd
Salt Lake City, UT 84121-5001

Enjoy

• Door Prizes
• A potluck dinner
• Raffle tickets
• Chatting with your fellow beekeepers
• and members elect our 2020 Officers

Everyone is welcome. No RSVP required.

Any memberships started or renewed are good for the 2020 year.

Join us for our August 2019 Wasatch Beekeepers Association meeting.

Thursday, August 15, from 7:00–9:00 PM

Salt Lake City Government Center
North Building Council Chambers
2001 South State Street
Salt Lake City, UT 84114

James Peirce will discuss

• Robbing

Peter Somers will discuss

• Honey harvest and extraction

Join us for our July 2019 Wasatch Beekeepers Association meeting.

Thursday, July 18, from 7:00–9:00 PM

Salt Lake City Government Center
North Building, Second Floor, Room 800
2001 South State Street
Salt Lake City, UT 84114

Please note that we are not meeting in the council chamber, our usual location, for this meeting. We are meeting in the same building, but on the second floor in room 800.

Rosemary Bennett will discuss

• Wasp management and control (featuring Katrina Davitt’s slides)

Veldon Sorensen will discuss

• Pollen trapping and collection

A guest speaker (to be announced) will discuss

• Water and shade for honey bees

A guest speaker (to be announced) will discuss

• Varroa control and treatment options (knowledge to prepare for August, the most important time to ensure varroa is well-managed for successful overwintering and health colonies in 2020).

James Peirce will be holding his annual robber screen workshop sometime in August. Robber screens are a basic and effective tool for affording colonies a degree of protection against robbing by other honey bee colonies and wasps through the dearth. Date to be announced.

Join us for our May 2019 Wasatch Beekeepers Association meeting.

Thursday, May 16, from 7:00–9:00 PM

Salt Lake City Government Center
North Building Council Chambers
2001 South State Street
Salt Lake City, UT 84114

James Peirce will discuss

• Catching and hiving a swarm

Jerry Lynn will discuss

• Managing your hive to prevent swarms
• When to add boxes and supers
• Honey flow maintenance

We will also holding a workshop on checking for mites during our WBA summer potluck dinner on Saturday, June 8, 2019 at Wheeler Farm