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RIBA August Monthly Meeting
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| The August Monthly Meeting will be held on: August 12, 2012 at 2:00 pm The meeting will be held at the home of: Bob & Paula Davis ManpaFarm 463a Tourtellot Hill Road Chepachet, RI, 02814 Please bring chairs and a dessert or snack Directions Getting to ManpaFarm from the Providence area: 1) route 6 West (towards Hartford)… 2) exit right onto Interstate 295 N 3) take the route 44 W exit 4) follow 44 W past the malls, down/up hill, thru a few lights, and into Greenville center 5) look for the Newport Creamery towards the bottom of the hill, take the 2nd left after it... onto Smith Ave (Rt 116 S). 6) follow 116 to the stop sign at the top of the hill. Continue straight thru (Smith Ave turns into Snake Hill Road), passing the old Knight's Farm apple orchard on the right. You're now about 12mins from ManpaFarm. 7) Stay on Snake Hill road, crossing SawMill Road at a small intersection, passing Holiday Acres Campground on the right, and finally Fogarty Memorial School on the left. Shortly thereafter (top of the hill) look for Tourtellott Hill Road (sign on right). Take a right onto Tourtellotte Hill. Continue .2 mi on Tourtellotte, at the 2nd driveway on the left; you'll see the diamond-shaped green/white treefarm sign on our double-mailbox post right after the main driveway. Take a left into the main (weedy crushed stone) driveway right before that sign, and drive to the end; we're the cedar-sided large building at the end. | ||
RIBA July Monthly Meeting
The July Monthly Meeting will take place on
Sunday, July 8th at 2:00 PM
at the home of
Shelly and Frank Arena
14 Rosewood Drive
North Scituate, RI
June Monthly Meeting
The June Monthly Meeting on June 10th @ 2:00pm
and will be held at the home of
John Poland
1 Jodie Beth Dr.
East Greenwich, RI
Topics to be covered:
Mite Counting
Queen Marking
Please remember to bring your own chairs
Names ending in A-M please bring a desert
Names ending in N-Z, please bring a snack
RIBA May Meeting
RIBA May Monthly Meeting
May 20th @ 2:00 pm
Arnold Mills Community House
75 Hillside Road
Cumberland, Rhode Island
Topic: How to Make Splits
Speaker: Everett Zurlinden
Package Hiving Demo
Have you bought a package, but you're unsure about how to install it?
Come to a demonstration of package installation Saturday, April 14 at 2pm on the RIC campus in Providence. Ed Lafferty will be installing packages in the two RIBA-sponsored hives behind the historic Yellow Cottage. Anyone who wants to see a package hiving should attend!
The Yellow Cottage is on RIC's East Campus. The Cottage is across from the Forman Center. Park in either of the nearby lots. The hives will be behind the Cottage, on a knoll.
2012 Spring Dinner and Annual Meeting
It's time for the Spring Dinner and Annual Meeting! This year we'll be holding our dinner and meeting at the Twelve Acres banquet facility in Smithfield, RI on Saturday, April 21st at 5pm.
The program includes our speaker, Dr. Heather Mattila of Wellesley College. She'll discuss her research into the benefits of genetic diversity for your colonies. What does it mean for a queen to be "well mated"? And why do hives with well-mated queens outperform others?
We will be be holding the election of officers at the Annual Meeting following our speaker and dinner. If you want to be on the ballot for an office, please contact a member of the Nominating Committee. (See the attached form for details.)
Print, fill out and mail the registration form to our Treasurer Tony DiGiulio at the address listed on the form. We need to give Twelve Acres a count of attendees the week before the dinner, so please make your reservations by April 13th! (A special note - Twelve Acres can accommodate vegetarian and gluten-free diets, so please note those requests on your reply.)
Hope to see you there!
RIBA Spring Dinner & Annual Meeting AnnouncmentNominations for 2012 Officers
Want to be an officer in 2012? Or, know someone who would make a good officer? The Nominating Committee is taking nominations for President, Executive Vice-President, Secretary, Treasurer, and Member-At-Large.
Patrick Pedder is chairing this year's Nominating Committee, along with Martha Faella. If you want to run for office contact Pat at (401) 568-3345, or Martha at (401) 783-7437 / marthafaella@yahoo.com.
Patrick Pedder
(401) 568-3345
Martha Faella
(401) 783-7437
March Meeting: "Swarm Control for the Backyard Beekeeper"
Sunday, March 11th at 2:00 PM
Rocky Hill Grange
1340 South County Trail
East Greenwich, RI
Our own Everett Zurlinden will be presenting on swarm management. We've had a mild winter, and after meeting last fall's challenge of treating for varroa mites, your next challenge with surviving colonies will be swarm control. Everett will talk about various swarm prevention techniques for the backyard beekeeper, a timely subject as we gear up for the spring build up of our bee colony populations.
We look forward to seeing you there!
Refreshments will be served after the meeting. Members with last names beginning A-M please bring desserts, N-Z please bring finger food and appetizers. Beverages will be provided.
Directions:
Take I-95 North or South to Exit 8
Make a right onto Route 2 (Quaker Lane)
Go through the traffic lights at Division St., keeping the Walgreens to your left
The Grange is located just past the Walgreens on Route 2
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February Meeting: "Beekeeping in Egypt & Africa"
Sunday, February 12th at 2:00 PM
Rocky Hill Grange
1340 South County Trail
East Greenwich, RI
Come learn about beekeeping in Egypt and Africa, from ancient to modern! Fellow member, beekeeper and anthropologist Richard Lobban will present a wide-ranging overview at our next meeting.
Did you know that honey and wax were used in ancient Egypt for food, medicine, even mummification? Bees were so important that one of the the Pharaoh's titles was "Bee King", and the hieroglyph for Upper Egypt was a honeybee.
He'll also present on beekeeping in modern Africa, where beekeeping is an important modest-investment source of income for many. Top-bar hives are used all over Africa, sometimes even hanging high from trees to avoid robbing predators … and just how do they keep elephants away from that tasty honey?
Richard just returned from a trip to Egypt, and he'll have several jars of Egyptian honey for tasting.
We look forward to seeing you there!
Refreshments will be served after the meeting. Members with last names beginning A-M please bring finger food and appetizers, N-Z please bring desserts. Beverages will be provided.
Directions:
Take I-95 North or South to Exit 8
Make a right onto Rt-2 (Quaker Lane)
Go through the traffic lights at Division St., keeping the Walgreens to your left
The Grange is located just past the Walgreens on Rt-2
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RIBA Group Package Run
RIBA is sponsoring a group package run for bees this spring!
We estimate each package will cost $70, saving as much as $20 per package!
We're taking deposits of $70 for each package ordered. The final package price will be the total cost of the order, plus travel and fuel expenses, shared across all of the orders.
The deadline for orders is March 15th. Packages are due to be delivered on April 14th.
Print and fill out the attached order form. Mail the form along with a check to Christine Dwyer before the March 15th deadline at the address list on the form.
Christine Dwyer
3 North Howard Ave., Unit 8
North Providence, RI 02911-1545
Here's to a good 2012 beekeeping and honey season!