Alamo Area Beekeepers AssociationNext meeting: Tuesday, January 20, 2015 at 6:30 p.m, start at 7pm.At Helotes Independent Baptist Church15335 Orange Tower RoadHelotes, TX 78023MEETING AGENDAØ President’s Welcome & Visitors Intro by Rick Fink (5 min)Ø Approval of the November 2014 meeting minutes (5 min)Ø Treasurer & Membership Report, Richard Trevino (5 min)Ø Schulmeier Update – Positive ThoughtsØ 2014 Youth Scholarship Program Update – Rick Fink & Scholarship Recipients (10 min)Ø Program intermission & potluck dinnerØ San Antonio Rodeo – Planning· Funds – AABA Scholarship Programs – Education - Equipment· Logistics for SA Rodeo – Booth Set-up (Saturday Feb 7th)· Logistics for SA Rodeo – Honey Bottling Party (Saturday Feb 7th)· SA Rodeo – AABA Booth – Map/Directions/Parking/Parking Passes/Rodeo Release Forms - Notarized· SA Rodeo – Care Calendar – Sign Up Schedule, Traffic Patterns – Rodeo Attendance/Honey Sales· SA Rodeo – Shift Schedules, Booth Mentoring/Management· Nuc Bee Display – Care and Handling· Heated Honey Storage – Design/Set-up/Heating· AABA Products for Sales in 2015o Honey – 4 oz Muth jars, Bears, 2 lb, 6 lbo Soap – Lavender, Rose, and Oatmeal w/ beeswaxo Beeswax Lip Balmo Hand Cream (plus applicators – small wooden sticks)o Suggestions for new items?· Newbie AABA Booth Education (a few examples)o What questions do people ask?o Educate a Friend Program – Booth Coverage – Free Ticketso $$ Money Managemento Opening/Closingo 2nd and 3rd shift – Parking and Parking Passeso Shift schedule – finding a replacement for booth coverageo Supplieso Sampleso Emergency Contacts – cell phone/emailØ Other items – name tagsØ Q&A – Beekeeping QuestionsØ Reminders - AABA Newsletter – blog – Mind Your OWN Bee’s WaxAction Items:The AABA will provide the meat dish with members asked to bring side dish-vegetables, dessert, salads etc.We would appreciate it if a few people (20) could bring folding chairs to the January 2015 AABA meeting.Meeting Agenda – submitted by Don Fraser, VP AABABlog: Mind Your OWN Beeswax
Link: http://aabanewsletter@blogspot.com. Reminder – Mimi Stricker would love to receive your pictures and stories for inclusion in the AABA Blog: Mind Your Own Beeswax. If you have an idea for a story or some interesting pictures you would like to share please contact her at: Mimi Stricker merissa.stricker@gmail.com
Alamo Area Beekeepers Association 2015 Events
& Rodeo Booth Set-upBooth Location – see map http://www.sarodeo.com/explore/map/
Come meet us at our booth
Fink Ranch, 1199 Lower Mason Creek Rd, Bandera, TX 78003
Honey, wax and photo contests
Thanksgiving Dinner and AABA Officer Election
Bi-monthly meetings are held on the 3rd Tuesday of the ODD numbered months (Jan-March-May-July-Sept-Nov) at Helotes Independent Baptist Church 15335 Bandera Rd, Helotes, TX 78023. Plan to arrive about 6:30 PM to register. The meeting will begin at 7 PM.Key AABA Contacts for 2013
Thursday, January 15, 2015
January Agenda
November Agenda
Alamo Area Beekeepers Association
Next meeting: Tuesday, November 18, 2014 at 6:30 p.m.
At Helotes Independent Baptist Church
15335 Orange Tower Road
Helotes, TX 78023
MEETING AGENDA
Ø President’s Welcome & Visitors Intro by Rick Fink (5 min)
Ø Approval of the September 2014 meeting minutes (5 min)
Ø Treasurer & Membership Report, Richard Trevino (5 min)
Ø 2014 Youth Scholarship Program Update – Rick Fink & Scholarship Recipients (5-10 min)
Ø Presentation – Splitting a Hive – Thinking Ahead to Spring 2015 (20 min). Rick Fink/Ed Priest
Ø Presentation – Wildflower Seedballs – Preparing Now for Spring 2015. Don Fraser
Ø Program intermission & potluck dinner
Ø 2015 Officer Election – Weldon Riggs/Sam Heinz
Ø Q&A – Beekeeping Questions
Ø Reminders - AABA Newsletter – blog – Mind Your OWN Bee’s Wax
Action Items:
The AABA will provide the meat dish (3 turkeys + ham) with members asked to bring side dish-vegetables, dessert, salads etc.
We would appreciate it if a few people (20) could bring folding chairs to the November 2014 AABA meeting.
Maxant Model 3100P Extractor Update – the gear on the extractor motor was repaired (under warranty) by Maxant on September 9, 2014. We also purchased additional partsfor the Maxant extractor – a hand crank attachment (in case the electric motor breaks down), ball bearings (2), food grease (2) and a stainless steel frame spacer (9 spaces).
Meeting Agenda – submitted by Don Fraser, VP AABA
Blog: Mind Your OWN Beeswax
Link: http://aabanewsletter@blogspot.com. Reminder – Mimi Stricker would love to receive your pictures and stories for inclusion in the AABA Blog: Mind Your Own Beeswax. If you have an idea for a story or some interesting pictures you would like to share please contact her at: Mimi Stricker merissa.stricker@gmail.com
Link: http://aabanewsletter@blogspot.com. Reminder – Mimi Stricker would love to receive your pictures and stories for inclusion in the AABA Blog: Mind Your Own Beeswax. If you have an idea for a story or some interesting pictures you would like to share please contact her at: Mimi Stricker merissa.stricker@gmail.com
2014 Events
Tuesday Jan 21
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Meeting *
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Saturday
Feb 1
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Bottling Party 9am-1pm
Youngblood Honey, 3300 FM 1582, Pearsall, TX 78061
(Use Mapquest for Directions; GPS in your car may get you lost)
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Saturday
Feb 1
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AABA San Antonio Stock Show
& Rodeo Booth Set-up
Booth Location - #52 on the map – Little Buckaroo Farms, A Texas Experience by HEB
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Feb 6-23
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San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo
Come meet us at our booth |
Tuesday
March 18
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Meeting *
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Saturday
April 26
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Field Day
Fink Ranch, 1199 Lower Mason Creek Rd, Bandera, TX 78003 |
Tuesday
May 20
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Meeting *
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Tuesday
July 15
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Meeting *
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Tuesday
Sept 16
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Meeting *
Honey, wax and photo contests |
Tuesday
Nov 18
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Meeting *
Thanksgiving Dinner and AABA Officer Election |
Bi-monthly meetings are held on the 3rd Tuesday of the ODD numbered months (Jan-March-May-July-Sept-Nov) at Helotes Independent Baptist Church 15335 Bandera Rd, Helotes, TX 78023. Plan to arrive about 6:30 PM to register. The meeting will begin at 7 PM.
Sunday, January 11, 2015
New Year Greetings and Reminder
Greetings in the New Year,
Our next meeting will be on Jan. 20th at 7pm.
2015 dues of $15 are due now if you have not already paid.
Our agenda is still being finalized, but I know we will have lots of good information about the Rodeo fund raiser and upcoming activities for the new year.
Below is an announcement for a Beekeeping Seminar being held in Austin that I did not want you to miss if you can fit it into your schedule.
Our annual Austin Area Beekeeping Seminar is just 1 week away!!! Please register asap at https://aabaseminar.eventbrite.com if you have not already. We are having it at the Wildflower Center on Jan. 17th(Saturday) starting at 9am and it is $40. We will have top flight presenters from all over Texas including Dr. Rangel from Texas A&M and Mr. Mark Dykes the Chief Apiary Inspector. In addition please note we have added another presenter, Tanya Phillips, to provide instruction on top bar hive management!
There will be a special 2 hour morning session for beginners covering where to buy your bees, apiary locating, package and nuc installation, equipment you will need, how to feed and general management. Questions will be encouraged. In addition there will be a concurrent morning advanced session of 2 hours if you are more seasoned. It will cover the four golden rules of beekeeping, nutrition and disease management, requeening strategies, comb rotation and swarm prevention and control.
In the afternoon you will be able to select the four best presentations for your situation out of 12 being offered. For a complete list of classes go to https://aabaseminar.eventbrite.com
There will be three vendors offering bee equipment, books, supplies, top bar hives and queen and package sales.
I wanted to let everyone know that we recommend that you bring your own sack lunch to the seminar. There is an onsite café but it is small and may not be able to accommodate everyone in the 90 minutes we have for lunch.
Remember it is necessary to register at https://aabaseminar.eventbrite.com to gain entry. If you have any questions you can call me at 512-619-3700 or email me at lance@beekeepinghelp.com.
We hope to see everyone there!
Lily, Karl and Lance
Austin Area Beekeeping Association Seminar Organizers
Our next meeting will be on Jan. 20th at 7pm.
2015 dues of $15 are due now if you have not already paid.
Our agenda is still being finalized, but I know we will have lots of good information about the Rodeo fund raiser and upcoming activities for the new year.
Below is an announcement for a Beekeeping Seminar being held in Austin that I did not want you to miss if you can fit it into your schedule.
Our annual Austin Area Beekeeping Seminar is just 1 week away!!! Please register asap at https://aabaseminar.eventbrite.com if you have not already. We are having it at the Wildflower Center on Jan. 17th(Saturday) starting at 9am and it is $40. We will have top flight presenters from all over Texas including Dr. Rangel from Texas A&M and Mr. Mark Dykes the Chief Apiary Inspector. In addition please note we have added another presenter, Tanya Phillips, to provide instruction on top bar hive management!
There will be a special 2 hour morning session for beginners covering where to buy your bees, apiary locating, package and nuc installation, equipment you will need, how to feed and general management. Questions will be encouraged. In addition there will be a concurrent morning advanced session of 2 hours if you are more seasoned. It will cover the four golden rules of beekeeping, nutrition and disease management, requeening strategies, comb rotation and swarm prevention and control.
In the afternoon you will be able to select the four best presentations for your situation out of 12 being offered. For a complete list of classes go to https://aabaseminar.eventbrite.com
There will be three vendors offering bee equipment, books, supplies, top bar hives and queen and package sales.
I wanted to let everyone know that we recommend that you bring your own sack lunch to the seminar. There is an onsite café but it is small and may not be able to accommodate everyone in the 90 minutes we have for lunch.
Remember it is necessary to register at https://aabaseminar.eventbrite.com to gain entry. If you have any questions you can call me at 512-619-3700 or email me at lance@beekeepinghelp.com.
We hope to see everyone there!
Lily, Karl and Lance
Austin Area Beekeeping Association Seminar Organizers
2014 National FFA Agriscience Fair Champion and AABA Member Samuel Gostomski!!
We recently received this letter informing us of the amazing job one of our scholarship recipients has done on the national level. We are very proud of Samuel Gostomski!!
I wanted to let you know that Samuel Gostomski, an AABA member and
hive scholarship recipient, competed at the 2014 National FFA
Agriscience Fair in Louisville, Kentucky on October 26-31. It was
announced on stage and RFD-TV that Samuel was National FFA Champion in
Social Systems on Friday, October 31. Samuel's research evaluated the
economic impact of drought on Bandera County agriculture since 2007.
Samuel's current research projects attempts understand the impact of
encapsulated miticide treatments within a bee colony. Samuel will use
the bees provided by the AABA Hive Scholarship and the Bee Creek Ranch
Apiary in Pipe Creek, TX, where Samuel is a research intern, to complete
his research.
We are incredible proud of Samuel and hope you join us in congratulating this young beekeeper in his outstanding achievement.
Thank you,
Joseph A. Burke
Bee Creek Ranch Apiary
Pipe Creek, TX
Sunday, September 14, 2014
September's Meeting!!
Alamo Area Beekeepers Association
Next meeting: Tuesday, September 16, 2014 at 6:30 p.m.
At Helotes Independent Baptist Church
15335 Orange Tower Road
Helotes, TX 78023
MEETING AGENDA
Ø President’s Welcome& Visitors Intro by Rick Fink (5 min)
Ø Approval of the July 2014 meeting minutes (5 min)
Ø Treasurer & Membership Report, Richard Trevino (5 min)
Ø 2014 Youth Scholarship Program Update – Rick Fink & Scholarship Recipients (5-10 min)
Ø Program intermission & potluck dinner
Ø Presentation – Albert Pena, Great Harvest Bakery (20 min)
Ø Honey, Wax & Photo Judging (30 min)
Ø Q&A – Beekeeping Questions
Ø Reminders - AABA Newsletter – blog – Mind Your OWN Bee’s Wax
Our feature speaker this month is Mr Albert Pena. Mr Pena is one of the owners of the Great Harvest Bakery in San Antonio. He will discuss the use of honey in bread products.
Honey and Photo Contest
We hope that you all had an excellent honey harvest this summer….collected some great honey for friends and family and took a few pictures. The AABA honey, wax and photo contest is less formal than the Texas Beekeeper Association contest at the TBA meeting in November 2014 in Houston. If you plan to submit entries to the TBA contest please go to Google and search the TBA website for the entry rules. The 2014 TBA Meeting will be in Houston, TX –Nov 7-9, 2014.
The AABA (Alamo Area Beekeeper Assoc) entry rules for both the honey and photo contests can be found at the bottom of this e-mail. Please note that we will have the more traditional extracted honey judging plus a “Black Jar” contest where the honey is judged on flavor and taste alone. The “Black Jar” contest has proven to be very popular so pick some of your best personal “vintage” of honey from your apiary and bring it to the meeting.
Action Items:
The AABA will provide the meat dish with members asked to bring side dish-vegetables, dessert, salads etc.
We would appreciate it if a few people (20) could bring folding chairs to the September 2014 AABA meeting.
Extractor Update – the gear on the extractor motor has been repaired (under warranty) by Maxant on September 9, 2014. We may have the extractor back a day or so before the AABA meeting on Sept 16th. Suggestion if you have honey that you want to extract for the AABA honey contest please call Rick Fink, Don Fraser or Richard Trevino Jr and we will help find an AABA member with an extractor you can borrow.
Meeting Agenda – submitted by Don Fraser, VP AABA
Blog: Mind Your OWN Beeswax
Link: http://aabanewsletter@blogspot.com. Reminder – Mimi Stricker would love to receive your pictures and stories for inclusion in the AABA Blog: Mind Your Own Beeswax. If you have an idea for a story or some interesting pictures you would like to share please contact her at: Mimi Stricker merissa.stricker@gmail.com
Link: http://aabanewsletter@blogspot.com. Reminder – Mimi Stricker would love to receive your pictures and stories for inclusion in the AABA Blog: Mind Your Own Beeswax. If you have an idea for a story or some interesting pictures you would like to share please contact her at: Mimi Stricker merissa.stricker@gmail.com
2014 Events
Tuesday Jan 21
|
Meeting *
|
Saturday
Feb 1
|
Bottling Party
9am-1pm
Youngblood Honey
3300 FM 1582
Pearsall, TX 78061
(Use Mapquest for Directions; GPS in your car may get you lost)
|
Saturday
Feb 1
|
AABA San Antonio Stock Show
& Rodeo Booth Set-up
Booth Location - #52 on the map – Little Buckaroo Farms, A Texas Experience by HEB
|
Feb 6-23
|
San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo
Come meet us at our booth |
Tuesday
March 18
|
Meeting *
|
Saturday
April 26
|
Field Day
Fink Ranch, 1199 Lower Mason Creek Rd, Bandera, TX 78003 |
Tuesday
May 20
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Meeting *
|
Tuesday
July 15
|
Meeting *
|
Tuesday
Sept 16
|
Meeting *
Honey, wax and photo contests |
Tuesday
Nov 18
|
Meeting *
Thanksgiving Dinner and AABA Officer Election |
Bi-monthly meetings are held on the 3rd Tuesday of the ODD numbered months (Jan-March-May-July-Sept-Nov) at Helotes Independent Baptist Church 15335 Bandera Rd, Helotes, TX 78023. Plan to arrive about 6:30 PM to register. The meeting will begin at 7 PM.
2014 Annual Alamo Area Beekeepers Association – Honey and Photo Contest.
General Entry Requirements:
1. Remove identifying label or markers from entry (See Black Jar Entry Requirements) Contest administrators will affix coded tabs to entries upon submission.
Extracted Honey Entry Requirements:
1. The TBA rules state that you must submit extracted honey entries in one-pound Queenline glass jars. AABA rules adjustment – Mason jars etc are acceptable – clear glass containers.
2. Contestants may only submit honey entries produced in their own apiary or by bees that they manage in a different state for honey production or pollination (see also Black Jar – Non Local Category).
“Black Jar” Honey Entry Requirements:
1. Entries must be submitted by a beekeeper and be pure unadulterated honey produced by his or her own bees.
2. An “Entry” consists of one (1) one-pound jar of honey.
3. Submit a one-pound jar without any identifying marks. Contest administrators will affix coded tabs to entries upon submission.
Photo Entry Requirements:
1. Judges will evaluate all entries in a class, regardless of black and white, color Photographers may submit any size entry with a maximum size of 8”x10”.
2. Entries in “Our Glorious Honey Bee” should depict honey bees in their natural environment depicting some element of honey bee behavior, science, or history or any aspect of beekeeping that contains a honey bee in the photo.
3. Photographers may only submit photos taken personally.
Manual Registration:
Competition Entry Form
One Form Required Per Contest Entry
Last Name: ___________________ First Name: ____________________
Address: ___________________________________________________
City / State: ___________________ Zip: ________ Phone:___________
o Honey - Extracted Honey
o Honey - “Black Jar” (note below)
o Photography – Our Glorious Honey Bee
“Black Jar Categories”
Local Blend ___ Local Varietal ___ Non-Local Blend ___ Non-Local Varietal ___ Exotic ___
HONEY JUDGING CRITERIA
Contest Judging – Extracted Honey - Judges may award points to entries in the following
categories for a possible 100 points:
Extracted Honey
Container Appearance 10
Level of Fill 10
Free of Foreign Matter 10
Brightness 10
Free of Air Bubbles and Foam 20
Flavor 40
Total Points 100
Contest Judging – “Black Jar” – Judges will award First, Second, and Third place to entries in categories based on blind tastings. Judges will not see the color, clarity, or any visual appeal of the honey. It is a contest based on flavor profile and taste alone. A panel of judges will taste test and score the honey entries individually, awarding points to each entry. Total Points determine placement.
Best Local Blend (example blend: wildflower, mesquite, native brush, tallow, etc)
Best Local Varietal (example at least 45% from one source: tallow, cotton, native brush, wildflower)
Best Non-Local Blend (example: Clover, Canola, Orange, Sourwood, etc blends)
Best Non-Local Varietal (example: at least 45% from one source: Clover, Canola, Orange, Sourwood, etc.)
Exotic (It still has to come from your own bees, and really be honey)
PHOTOGRAPY JUDGING CRITERIA
Contest Judging – Photography – Our Glorious Honey Bee - Judges may award points to entries in the following categories for a possible 100 points:
Photography – Our Glorious Honey Bee
Relevancy to Topic 25
Composition / Arrangement 15
Focus / Sharpness 20
Lighting 15
Creativity 25
Total Points 100
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