Swarm Procedures and Etiquette

February 16, 2017 – Speaker: Dave Primer; Topic: Swarm Procedures and Etiquette; NCBA speaker: Ken Nichols. Location: Kerst barn** **Kerst Barn Large metal building at this address: 17765 Hwy 392 (between CR35 and CR37) Greeley, CO 80631...

Presidents Message – February 2017

NCBA Members: Your club board, officers and directing volunteers, is commonly called the Executive Committee or EC. I don’t know why. I inherited the term EC and have learned to live with it. Another common name for this body of...

January Volunteer Recognition

Thank you to: Linda Vap handled the registration table at the January Beginning Beekeeper Class.  Linda and her team checked in the new students and made them feel welcome. Linda is an Assistant Professor at CSU working in Veterinary...

Scholarship Awarded

Congratulations to Deborah Stewart, Graduate Student, Colorado State University, Soil and Crop Science. Deborah will have personal hives at her home and is currently working with another student to place hives at the new CSU Greenhouse and...

Thank you

Spontaneous Thank You about Beginning Beekeepers Class! Patrick Miller writes: just wanted to let you and the many others who helped, the bee class was a hit! And it was at a great location for a large group and very well organized with all the...

2017 Bee Order

The EC has voted to provide 350 packages and 55 nucs in 2017.  That is a substantial expansion over 2016 which was 270 packages and 30 nucs.  These will be sold on a first come / first served basis to members and non-members. Our...

Hands-on Learning Opportunity

Bryan Davis has agreed to offer our first hands-on training at our new NCBA home. This is the first in what we hope becomes a new tradition. The idea is to offer brief hands-on classes at the Kerst Barn for about an hour prior to each NCBA...