Come learn how to build your own beehive at this hands-on workshop. Bring your own supplies or purchase them at a low cost. Contact Tom at tomp@starkfresh.org for more information *******PLEASE NOTE!********* This is a workshop for the Stark County Beekeepers Association Members. If you'd like to attend, and you are not yet a member, you can go to http://www.starkbeekeepers.org/ and sign up. Yearly dues are $10 per person or family. Come learn how to build your own beehive

Springtime is finally here, and honeybees, both wild and managed, are working on fulfilling their evolutionary purpose - strengthening the colony, making a new queen, and reproducing the superorganism through swarming. As beekeepers, swarming is a mixed bag - great if it’s someone else’s, or a wild colony, and not so great if it’s your own. Collecting wild swarms is one of my favorite parts of beekeeping but it’s one of those things we can’t schedule; you don’t know when the