Join us for our Annual Meeting in January! Admission is free, but we encourage family membership to the NMBKA for $30 for per year. 

Special Guest Speaker is Tammy Horn who was an English professor for ten years until, as 2006 NEH Chair of Appalachian Studies, she began to study the potential impact of surface mining on honey bees.  In 2007, unemployed, she began writing grants and working with coal companies to create Coal Country Beeworks.  In 2013, she is now working the third book of the *bee trilogy*: Bees in America: How the Honey Bee Shaped a Nation (2005); Beeconomy (2012); and Apiforestation, The Future of Beekeeping (forthcoming).  She will be speaking two times.  The first session will be "Honey Corridors in the Appalachians" and the second session will be "Beeconomy: What Women and Bees teach us about local trade and global markets".

Our Agenda:

Fri, Jan 25th, 2013 12-5:00 pm

12-1 pm           Registration

1-1:45 pm        Les Crowder, Introductions

1:45-2:15pm    Greg Watson- Beekeeping around the State

2:15- 2:30 pm  Break

2:30- 4:00 pm  Demos and Classes

4- 5 pm           Movie, “Strange Disappearance of the Bees”

Sat, Jan 26th, 2013 8:30 am-3:30 pm

8:30-9:30 am    Swap meet/ Registration

9:30-10:30 am   Business Meeting

10:30-11:30 am  Tammy Horn, “Honey Corridors in the  

                        Appalachians”

11:30- 1 pm        Lunch 

1- 2:30 pm        Tammy Horn, “Beeconomy: What Women          

                        and Bees teach us about local trade and    

                        global markets”

2:30-3:30 pm    Stump the Beekeeper- Questions and

                        problems

3:30- 4 pm        Book signing with Tammy Horn and Les        

                        Crowder