Want to learn more about the volunteer work I did teaching top bar beekeeping through the Farmer to Farmer program in Jamaica for 2 weeks, check out my blog at: http://brownsdowntownbees.blogspot.com/

Both Les Crowder and Megan Mahoney have also volunteered earlier this year if you would like more information!

At the last Alamogordo City Commission hearing, I was the only city residenr to testify in favor of changing the city ordinance to allow beekeeping in tbe city.  The Commission directed the city legal staff to report back with a proposed revision to the ordinance.

If the new Ordinance in Alamogordo requires us to gain the approval of all neighbors within a certain radium, it might as well stay the way it is; because all of us have at least one neighbor who will not agree to anything.  Please consider this when determining how to revise the Ordinance.

Many thanks to all of you who wrote to the Alamogordo Commissioners, they commented on the support from around the state. Special thanks to Paul McCarty of Black Mesa Honey Bees, you knocked it out of the park! Thanks again to Kate Whealen who did a fantastic radio interview. Because of you all, there will be beekeeping in the City of Alamogordo. It just feels good doesn’t it?

If you want to support bees and beekeeping and you live near Alamogordo, tomorrow night is the Commission Meeting that will decide the future of beekeeping in that city. We need your support at 7:00PM. There is very vocal opposition and we need you there IN PERSON to show your support. The address is 1376 9^th Street, Alamogordo, NM

Thank you in advance!

A special thank you to Kate Whealen who NAILED a radio interview on our behalf!

THANK…

Bees will be ready to pick up Thursday April 4th at Ken Hays Honey and Apple Farm between the hours of 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and here is the map if you need directions (http://mapq.st/YmvWyX). I will then go to Edgewood with the bees that are for anyone that wants to pick them up in Edgewood at the Wal-Mart. This will be on the South West Corner near where Church Street and 344 meet and I will be there from 6:30 or 7:00 until 8:00 p.m.

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I spoke to the Renee Cantin, Alamogordo City Clerk today. We have a hearing 7:00 pm on April 9^th. Renee suggested that we submit our comments or presentations by Tuesday the 2^nd of April.

Please send your comments to her at rcantin@ci.alamogordo.nm.us and PLEASE COME

Thanks!

Thank you in advance.

If you are able to keep bees in the city limits, count your blessings, the citizens of Alamogordo, New Mexico are not. Ordinance #7-01-020. - Keeping restrictions, established in the 70’s will be getting a hearing soon and we need your help.

We have a group of folks that want to keep bees within the city and I would like to ask you to write a letter in support of the ordinance change. Even if you don’t live there, your experience with…

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The Bee Informed Partnership (BIP) is a USDA/NIFA (U.S. Department of Agriculture/National Institute of Food and Agriculture) funded project with the stated goal of reducing colony losses. The program is a collaboration of research institutions, Universities and beekeepers in the US.  It is now time for your active participation!

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My name is Rehab Kassem, and I am taking an honors course at the University of NM called “Zen and the Art of Beekeeping.” My classmates, Kayla and Mathew, and I are going to create a podcast and the topic of our podcast is bee diseases in NM. We are going to explore the various diseases that affect hives and bees and also the ways in which these diseases and ailments are contained. We want to compare organic versus inorganic ways to treat bee diseases. We would really…

I have top bar hives for sale.  All hives come with 40 top bars (29 in the hive, and 11 spare).  The top bars have splines down the middle to help discourage cross-combing.  

The pricing is as follows:

Base Hive (no windows) = $180

To paint the hive = $15

A window = $35 per window

I will have at least one hive without windows on display at the ABQ Beeks meeting this Thursday.  

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I have an acquaintance who is doing some research work on bees.  Here's an early, quite disturbing, report from that quarter:

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Bee-Suited Bureaucrats descend on California’s Central Valley

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