In this meeting, the club received an update from Sarah on the club’s apiary. We had our first inspection of the year. We currently have three hives, but only one hive was able to get inspected. Club members Sarah and Luther got to mark the queen and try the club’s honey! The members got to […]
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 […]
The Foragers were back to in-person meeting after the Zoom call we had last month due to Omicron. This meeting started with a presentation from Lili on the Evolution of Beehives. She had visited the Ukraine over the winter and found some interesting history of beekeeping there. Thanks for sharing Lili! Our program for the […]
There was not much to report on the club hive. It’s colder these days, so we don’t need to do an inspection as often. Mr. Hodgie brought the board that was put under the hive during the mite treatment to the December monthly meeting to show the members what it looks like after the treatment […]
Our December meeting was full of fun this month. We first started with our officer inductions. We had a fun ceremony this year for 7 officers ending with a trail mix of ingredients that were added one by one by each officer. Freeze-dried strawberries: As the Foragers Club President, Sarah is the club’s leader. The […]
The Foragers ended the summer with the final outdoor meeting and pool party. Club member Ashten invited the club to his house for the meeting. We held our annual officer nominations and speeches for the upcoming officer vote. We heard nominations and speeches for President, Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer, Historian, Reporter, and Pledge/Motto Leader. After […]
The Foragers continued their outdoor meeting format for the July meeting. We started with our business meeting. We discussed the update of the club hive, member record books, and project books for the hive inspection. Afterwards, we had our program, which this month was Lighting a Smoker since our members will need this skill for […]
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 […]
Due to shelter-in-place measures and social distancing, the Foragers held a virtual meeting for this month. With Zoom’s videoconferencing app, most of our Foragers were able to attend. We caught up on club business, mostly about cancellation of projects we had planned. Afterwards, we played a game using a coding game that co-leader Jen learned […]
For our February monthly meeting, club member Angel presented her educational program on the queen bee. We learned: The queen is more like a mother of the hive and not really a ruler. Attendant bees feed and clean her. The queen usually only leaves the hive for her nuptial mating flight or if the hive […]
