Foragers June 2022 Meeting Update

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 […]

Hive Update – Many Queens

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 into Mr. […]

Forager June 2021 Meeting

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 […]

Foragers January 2020 Meeting

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 […]

Forager Computer Science Training Day

Foragers Get Trained in Computer Science

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 […]

Forager Beekeepers 2019 2020 Officers

Foragers November 2019 Meeting

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, […]

Our Forager Member Featured In YouTube Series Video

Feature photo courtesy of WillJayMoore Congratulations to our Forager member and club President, Gabby, for being featured in a YouTube series called I Became/I Tried by Will Jay Moore. He contacted our club and wanted to learn about honey bees. Gabby, who has been featured in the HBO documentary Saving My Tomorrow, agreed to educate […]

Forager Beekeeper Brainstorming

Foragers September 2019 Meeting

September marks the close of the 4H year and October starts the new year. That means our club holds elections during the September meeting. We got to hear several speeches from club members telling us what office they wanted to run for and why the club should vote for them to hold the position. Congratulations […]

Foragers August 2019 Meeting

For the August meeting, the Foragers made officer nominations and conducted our honey bee Skillathon. Before the nominations, our club member Paul gave the educational program on Sugar Water. The 4H year runs from October through September, so next month is the last month of our year. So we will be having elections for new […]