Fundraiser for LACBA

Come have a fun night out and raise money for LACBA!

Saturday October 7th from 5-9pm

Back by popular demand, The Valley Hive’s 5th Annual Fundraising Honey Competition & Honey Dessert Recipe Contest is scheduled for Saturday October 7th from 5-9pm. This year, The Valley Hive is raising funds for LACBA, so tell all your friends about the event.

Members are encouraged to submit your honey for the competition. Your honey submission of 2 - 8oz jars of honey (one with a label & one without a label) need to be dropped off at The Valley hive by 5pm on Saturday September 23rd.

Are you looking to do something fun with your honey? Along with submitting your honey for the competition, you can use your honey to make a Honey Dessert and compete for the best tasting Honey Dessert Recipe. Click here to let us know what you will be bringing.

We look forward to seeing everyone out at The Valley Hive on October 7th. For more information you can contact The Valley Hive.

Dinner from 5pm to 7pm.

LACBA member Doug Nolan’s catering company, Outback Catering, will be cooking the night of the Fundraising event. For only $19.95 per person, you can support LACBA and have dinner.

Outback Catering is donating 10% of your meal ticket price to LACBA. Pre-order your dinner ticket now to make sure we have enough food for you. In fact, bring the whole family and invite your friends as well.

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POSTPONED - Beekeeping 101 Class#5 on 6-11-2023

SUNDAY’S CLASS WILL BE POSTPONED DUE TO WEATHER

Due to cool temperatures and an chance of rain in the morning, the class that was scheduled for Sunday 6-11-2023 will be postponed until Sunday 6-25-2023. Class details for the new date will be send out on Saturday 6-24-2023, but class will be held at the same time. All current participants registers for the class will have their registration transferred to the new date.

POSTPONED DUE TO WEATHER - new date will be Sunday 6-25-2023

2023 American Honey Queen to Visit LA County Fair

Selena Rampolla, the 2023 American Honey Queen, will visit California May 7-15. She will be a guest of the Los Angeles County Beekeepers Associations at the Los Angeles County Fair, speaking to fairgoers about the importance of honeybees to California agriculture and how the flower, the bee, and society form a symbiotic relationship. She will also share information about the many surprising uses for honey. Selena’s trip is sponsored by the Los Angeles County Beekeepers Association.

Selena is the 21-year-old daughter of Faye Turke and Renato Rampolla of Lutz and Tampa, Florida. She graduated summa cum laude from the University of South Florida with a bachelor’s degree in Psychology. She enjoys exploring the arts and sciences with specific interests in photography, neuroscience, and honeybees.

As the 2023 American Honey Queen, Selena serves as a national spokesperson on behalf of the American Beekeeping Federation, a trade organization representing beekeepers and honey producers throughout the United States. The American Honey Queen and Princess speak and promote in venues nationwide, and, as such Queen Selena will travel throughout the United States in 2023. Prior to being selected as the American Honey Queen, Selena served as the 2022 Florida Honey Queen. In this role, she promoted the honey industry at fairs, festivals, and farmers’ markets and via media interviews.

The beekeeping industry touches the lives of every individual in our country. In fact, honeybees are responsible for nearly one-third of our entire diet, in regards to the pollination services that they provide for a large majority of fruits, vegetables, nuts and legumes. This amounts to nearly $19 billion per year of direct value from honeybee pollination to United States agriculture.

Bee Informed Loss & Management Survey April 1 - 30

The Bee informed partnership is asking beekeepers to fill out a survey

It’s time again to rally and support the beekeeping community! We are formally requesting the help of every beekeeper: you, your neighbors, your bee club and all the beekeepers you know.

The survey is open and accepting responses from April 1st to April 30th 2023. Please take a moment to submit your response to help us continue to inform beekeepers, researchers, policy makers, and the greater public about impacts to honey bee colony health.

Visit https://beeinformed.org/ to join in the effort, learn more, and take the survey!

To go directly to the survey visit https://research.beeinformed.org/survey-response/1/

Sign Up Now for Beekeeping 101

Register Now

The 2023 Beekeeping 101 class schedule has been released, check it out on our Beekeeping 101 Class page. The first class will be on Sunday February 12th @ 9am.

You can register now.

The Los Angeles County Beekeeper’s Association Beekeeping 101 class is designed to help you get through your first year of keeping bees. In the beginning of the year we start by helping you determine what you need to get started on your beekeeping journey. Please join us so we can help answer all your questions.