Exciting news.
This morning we were invited to be on the midday news with Kolo 8 NewsNow. It was a nice little interview and they’re great people. Give it a look.
Then, hop over to the Raffle page and purchase some tickets. We’d really appreciate your support.
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We have another addition to the Raffle. The Eldorado family has donated a dinner and show package for 4. Our thanks to the Carano family and the Eldorado Resorts’ The Row for their donation and support of Bees4Vets.
This prize will be included in our Raffle drawing coming up soon. Tickets are being sold now, don’t miss out on your chance. You can purchase tickets from any director or officer of Bees4Vets or from our web site via PayPal. You may also send us a check and one of our directors will be at the Riverside Farmer’s Farmer’s Market at the McKinley Arts Center, Saturday mornings from now until our drawing.
Don’t miss out, get your tickets NOW!
Bees4Vets is grateful to every veteran who served our nation, protected our freedoms, and answered the call for self-sacrifice. You are our heroes, and our family.
We are humbled and honored to serve each of our Bees4Vets student-beekeepers. Thank you for all that you have given us, and allowing us to give back with our honey bees. We wish you all peace on this day of remembrance, and pride, of our armed service members.
“True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost”. Arthur Ash
Two bee keeping vendors made donations to Bees4Vets this year. Those donations directly help support the equipment needs of our program and students.
I want to thank Brushy Mountain Bee Farm and GloryBee for their generous support of our program and students. Without the support of the beekeeping community we wouldn’t have as nice a program for our veterans.
If you would like to support our program, we can take donations via PayPal, check, or cash as well as donations of equipment. We also accept volunteers to help our students lift and move hive boxes, etc.
Every week our student’s inspect their hives. They get to see the hives develop and get to compare them to each other. Every hive is different, some grow faster, gather more nectar,etc. Some grow rapidly, some barely grow at all. Our students get to see it all, hives that go queenless, how to combine hives, how to make splits and all the other normal tasks of beekeeping.
Ginger is teaching our students how to install a nuc (nucleus colony) into an 8 frame hive.