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Meet our 2023 Funday Speakers!
For this year, we wanted to offer you a good mix of lectures, demos and hands-on talks. We hope to see you in Grand Island!
Use discount code: EARLYBEE2023 at checkout for $5 off your registration.
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Introducing our Brown Bag Honey Tasting Contest!
If you have a delectable honey that you believe deserves recognition, why not enter it into the Bee Fun Day competition? Participating in our Brown Bag Honey contest can be a fantastic opportunity to showcase your beekeeping skills and the unique flavors of your honey.
Using a 1 lb queenline jar, select up to 5 jars of your most flavorful natural honey, this can be dark, amber or light honey and fill the jar(s). No artificially flavored honeys please.
Bring your honey to the Bee Fun Day wrapped in a brown paper bag, a small lunch bag is a good size for the queenline jars. Write your name (location of the source apiary is optional), on the outside of the bag.
Complete the entry form during the morning registration at the Bee Fun Day event on September 10th. Honey will be judged during the lunch hour and winners announced during the Q&A Session at 4PM. Prizes will be awarded to the top three honey entries.
2023 Bee Fun Day Schedule
Silent Auction
We will be having a silent auction during Fun Day to raise additional funds for the scholarship program. If you have anything you would be willing to part with for the silent auction, simply bring it with you and one of the board members or volunteers will assist you.
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Examples of past items include: Just about anything bee-related (beeswax candles, quilts, blankets, mead, flower seeds, bee cookie jars, etc.)
Sun, Jan 30
|Zoom Event
2022 NBA Winter Conference
Enjoy the conference from home!
Time & Location
Jan 30, 2022, 10:30 AM – 3:30 PM CST
Zoom Event
Guests
About the event
For the safety of our membership and communities we are hosting the 2022 NBA Winter Conference online.Â
Here’s the agenda information and details below.Â
Schedule:
1030a-11a: Introductory remarks from President Megan Vetter & NBA broad officers, General Q & A
11a -11:50p: Jennifer Weisbrod (40 min talk & 10 mins Q&A)
Nebraska Pesticide Safety Education Program Coordinator (and former UNL Bee Lab student)
11:50-12:30p: Break (Call for auction items and NBA volunteers)
1230p-130p: Presentations from 2021 Youth Scholars (5-10 min talks each for 8 scholars)
1:30p- 1:40p: Introduction of 2022 Youth Scholars
1:40-3:00p: UNL Bee Lab student research updates
                       Shelby Kittle (15 min): Comb honey production project
                       Rogan Tokach (15 min): Pesticides and bee behaviors
                       Courtney Brummel (15 min): Alternative hive structures and colony development
                       Sheldon Brummel (15 min): Novel hygienic testing tools
                       Judy Wu-Smart (10 min): Updates from Mead, NE and treated seed disposal issues
                       Sheldon Brummel (10 mins): upcoming events & updates for Great Plains Master Beekeeping
3-3:30p: NBA business, officer votes, and concluding remarks
Join Zoom Meeting
Topic: Nebraska Beekeepers Association Winter Conference
Time: Jan 30, 2022 10:30AM -3:30PM Central Time (US and Canada)
https://unl.zoom.us/j/96699146958?pwd=a2p1eExtL0JIam9pUUVsNGNNRWRVdz09
Meeting ID: 966 9914 6958
Passcode: NBA2022