Mark your calendars!!
The Annual ESHPA summer picnic will be on July 15th,2023
at Merrimack apiaries in Otto, NY

We are very excited to be bringing back Beekeeping Field Days for the group!
You do NOT have to be an ESHPA member to join this picnic, but we hope you will join us!

In the morning, we will have a couple guest speakers discussing a range of pertinent topics (listed below). We will break for a catered chicken BBQ lunch. Then we will breakout into Field Day sessions. You will be able to choose from a variety of different hands-on topics presented by our board members. Once the hands-on learning is done, we will drive to John Gibbs’ indoor bee wintering facility for a tour.

Because this is a hands-on session, you will need to bring your
protective jacket or veil with you if you wish to participate

We would like to hear about what topics YOU, our members would like to have covered in our Hands-on sessions! When you register to attend, you will get to pick 3 from the following list and whichever has the most votes will be covered throughout the day in multiple sessions.

Possible topics:

Spring and Fall feeding / Materials and Methods
Swarm Control
Hive Inspection
Requeening
Installation of replacement Packages and Nucs
Making Splits
Comb Honey Production
Five Frame Nuc Management
Single VS Double Brood Boxes
Using Pollen Traps
When to Super
Honey Removal/ Bee-go vs Bee escapes
Mite Treatments/ Mitecides
Preventing Robbing
Extraction/ Raw vs Liquid
Preparing Honey for Honey Shows
Wintering / Indoors and Outdoors