Looking for a few more volunteers to sign up for shifts for selling honey at the State Fair. Please use the link above to sign up. Our club gets a percentage of sales based on how many volunteer slots we fill, this is one of our main fundraising opportunities each year. You will receive a ticket to the fair for the day of your shift so you will be able to check out the fair before or after the shift for free!
Mated Queen Sales
Making a Spring split with a mated queen is a relatively simple, cost-effective, and efficient means of creating a new honey bee colony—especially for beginning beekeepers. In an effort to support our new beekeepers in making late Spring splits, we have put out requests to two local VSH (varroa sensitive hygiene) queen breeders to procure up to a dozen mated queens. Our club will front the money for the initial purchase and members will then buy the queens from the club. If you are a new beekeeper and interested in getting a queen, please contact Ron Stilwell at 804-839-1191 or stilwellronald@gmail.com to get on the reservation list. Availability is not guaranteed, but dependent on weather and successful queen mating. The cost of each queen will be between $40 and $50, depending on the type of queen produced by the breeder.