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Tri-County Beekeepers Association Inc., located in north central Ohio

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Spring Workshop

The 2013 TCBA Spring Beekeeping Workshop on March 1 and 2 was a great success.

2013 Workshop Keynote speaker - Jennifer A. Berry (Practical Natural Beekeeping)

If you didn't make it this year you missed a good one. If you want to read about what you missed, click here to download the Workshop Information Packet.

It's not too early to mark you calendar for the 2014 Workshop. It will be held on February 28, and March 1, 2014...

TO GET ON THE EMAILING LIST FOR AN INVITATION TO NEXT YEAR'S WORKSHOP, please send us an email. On the subject line, please type "Add me to the Workshop mailing". In the body of the email, include your name, address, phone # and the email address you want us to use for the invitation, and we'll get you on the list.

Pictures from the 2013 Workshop:

Pre-Workshop - Preparing the 900+ program folders at the Wooster OSU Bee Lab

Donuts at the Workshop with Rose Oakes and Cheryl Messyesy

Registration

Vendors

Vendors

And more Vendors

Hands-On Room with Denise Ellsworth (Bees and things, up-close)

Hands-On Room with Tom Oakes (Extracting Honey)

The Recipe Contest with Ann Griffith - (not pictured)

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Considering the Workshop?
If you have never attended our Spring Workshop, then the following pictures and text will give you a peek into what we offer at the largest educational event, of its kind, for beekeepers in the United States...

This is the main auditorium where we have opening and closing comments, the keynote address and the more popular class sessions through-out the day.

March 2012 - Wooster, Ohio - Attendees = 1,043

* Each TCBA Workshop is filled with numerous break-out sessions covering many aspects of honeybees and beekeeping. For the master beekeeper to the beginner, there are sessions just for you. Each one of our begginers' classes cover a different topic, are of course basic in nature and will cover what you will need to know to get into beekeeping. Classes like swarm control and harvesting hive products are for the intermediate beekeeper and topics like queen rearing and hive pheromone study are for the advanced beekeeper.

*Although the above picture is of a break-out session, this large area also serves as the main dinning area for the great catered lunch on Saturday.

* The OSU Pollinatarium will again be available for tours on Friday evening. The Pollinatarium exhibits information about the various pollinators in nature; of course, this includes our favorite pollinator. The Pollinatarium is near by and can be found by following the provided signage.

* Don't miss the opportunity to meet with all the local and many national equipment vendors at the Workshop. (See phone list below) Please note - The vendor areas are an integral part of the Workshop and are intermixed with the classroom areas. For this reason, only paying registrants of the Workshop, have access to the vendors inside the facility. Registrants are encouraged to place equipment orders over the phone, a few weeks before the Workshop. Many of the vendors are willing to bring phoned-in orders to the meeting for pick-up.

However, if you are stopping bye the Workshop only to pick-up an order and are not paying the entrance fee, you must make arrangements, in advance, to meet the vendor outside the facility to pick-up your order...

The following is a list of Vendors that routinely attended the Workshop.

AWS BEES LLC 810-621-4371

BEEOLOGY 419-564-6628

BETTERBEE INC. 800-632-3379

BLUE SKY BEE SUPPLY 877-529-9233

BRUSHY MOUNTAIN BEE FARM 570-568-0870

COBLENTZ BEE SUPPLY

DADANT & SONS INC. 517-629-2860

DOLPHIN DESIGNS 330-923-4600

KB FARMS 502-424-4944

MANN LAKE LTD. 218-675-6688

MAXANT HONEY PROCESSING 978-772-0576

MEL DISSELKOEN APIARIES 616-241-3235

MISCO REFRACTOMETERS 216-831-1000

NORTHERN BEE 989-370-4841

OHIO HONEY FARMS 330-466-7162

PARSONS' GOLD APIARIES 419-273-3066

PAUL'S HONEY & BEES 330-484-6184

QUEEN BEE ART & GARDEN 502-727-7964

QUEEN RIGHT COLONIES 440-647-2602

REID'S APIARY & BEE-TIQUE 740-643-2925

ROSS ROUNDS INC. 518-370-4989

SIMPSON'S BEE SUPPLY 740-599-7914

STONY ACRES BEE SUPPLY

WALDO OHIO APIARIES 740 524 6241

WALTER T. KELLEY CO. 270-242-2012

WICWAS PRESS 269-344-8027

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* Check back to this page occasionally to read more updates about the TCBA 2013 Spring Workshop.