The Foragers were invited to have a tent at the second Bulls and Barrels Rodeo. Last year’s event was a successful and fun event for the club, so we agreed to attend again. This year, we attended both days with members Sarah, William, Luther, Lili, Taylor, Dylan, and Nina coming out to educate the public […]
At this month’s meeting, the Foragers inducted the officers for the new year. Our new officers are: President: Lili Vice President: Sarah Secretary: Leah and Alexa Treasurer: Nina Historian: Taylor Reporter: Paul Pledge and Motto Leader: William The new officers were inducted in a “Trail Mix” ceremony, where members added different ingredients to create a […]
The club’s members conducted their adult bee club tours this spring. This is when club members visit each club and update the adult members on their accomplishments, as well as what the club has been doing, since last visiting. This time, the Foragers visited the Norfolk Beekeepers Association in March and the Tidewater Beekeepers Club […]
It’s been a couple of months since we have been able to meet. We didn’t have our normal location due to voting events, and last month was a very short Zoom meeting. But…this month we were able to finally meeting in person at the club’s apiary. The meeting kicked off with club member Ellie giving […]
Our members have been graciously passing their honey bee knowledge on to others around them. Club members William, Sarah, and Paul visited a STEM class at their school and gave them a lesson on honey bees. Club member Nina returned to Red Mill Elementary and did her honey bee tour with all of the kindergarten […]
Since placing the club hive in the apiary, there has been much activity. We added a second box onto the hive. During inspections, we found several queen cells being built in the hive, giving an indication that the hive was preparing to swarm. During one of the inspections, one of the queens emerged so we […]
The Foragers were able to have our first in-person meeting since the COVID pandemic started! We met at Ms. Jen’s house since it could accommodate an outside meeting. Fortunately, the 4H guidelines changed to allow inside meetings so the cold, cloudy weather allowed us to keep the meeting instead of canceling. Club President Paul opened […]
The Foragers had a packed January meeting. We started with our normal business meeting. Our member, Ellie, gave her educational program on the queen bee. We learned that: You can identify the queen by her long abdomen and faint stripes when compared to the worker bees. Beekeepers use five different colors to mark the queen […]
This past weekend, two of our Forager members, Paul and Lily, attended the Virginia Beach 4-H Computer Science Training for Adult and Teens. It was a filled day of various activities devoted to teaching the concepts of coding in easy-to-learn tasks. The day started with three different activities. The Code Your Friend activity had each […]
This month’s meeting was a fun ceremony of inducting our new club officers for the 2019/2020 4-H year. For the induction, we used a trail mix theme to conduct the ceremony. The idea was that each officer would be inducted and would accept an integral ingredient for the trail mix. As each officer was inducted, […]
