This months meeting will be a Meet and Greet for the Beginning Beekeepers Class of 2023. In attendance will also be the members of the mentor squad. We will also be awarding the “Beat Up Smoker Trophy” to the 2022 Christmas Party winning team for 2023.

Our August meeting, we'll be hosting Ben Marietta, from Bee Happy Farms.

Ben has been keeping bees since about age 6 (with a little help from Mom, of course)

As a commercial beekeeper, he learned that bear fences need to be not only efficient, but also easy to move from location to location, 

he will show us how to construct fences that are minimalist but effective.

Looking forward to seeing you there

Thursday, August 18, 7:00 pm 

Fellowship Hall, Centenary Methodist church, 1502 Rivermont Ave,  

(Park in lot in back of church, off Early St)

Our June meeting will be our first and hopefully, annual, Plant Swap! Bring plants, bulbs, seeds, etc. Bee and pollinator plants preferred, but if any & all will be fine (no invasives please). - Unless the bees like them.

Guidelines - for each plant unit you bring (plant, seed packet, or bulb, gets you a ticket. Each ticket enables you to pick up one plant unit (plant, seed packet, or bulb). Anything left over will be free for all - please be respectful - no pushing, kicking, or stinging.

And there’s always, Questions and Answers can follow the swap.

June 16th @ 7pm

Centenary United Methodist Church - Fellowship Hall

1502 Rivermont Avenue Lynchburg, Virginia

Park in lot behind church on Early Street. When facing the back of the church from parking lot, entrance is off the alley on the left.

Thurs., May 19th @ 7pm - PBA Monthly Meeting

Topic: There are Queen Cells in my hives, oh no!

Host: Ann Zudekoff

The November 2021 monthly Piedmont Beekeepers Association meeting will be held in person at Centenary United Methodist Church on Rivermont Avenue in downtown Lynchburg, Va. The meeting topic will be Discussion of Beekeeping Woodenware and other club business such as the need for volunteer for committee coordinators. We will need coordinators for a monthly newsletter, mentors, media administrator, and discussion of the Old City Cemetery hives.

Piedmont Beekeepers Association will be hosting a monthly (Oct 2021) Zoom meeting. The topic this month will be:

Winter Care and Feeding your bees

Time: Oct 21, 2021 07:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

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Hello All,

We will have a Bee Club meeting on Thursday, September 16, at 7pm held virtually on Zoom. This month's meeting will be on shared "lessons learned". We did an action with certain undesirable results and now we would do it differently in the following way. Come and share your experiential knowledge.

Zoom info to follow in an email.

Lea Plummer, PBA secretary

After some deliberation, the executive committee has decided to hold a Zoom meeting this month. Details and Zoom meeting information will follow.

This month, we will attempt a virtual Zoom meeting with a presentation on Africanized Bees from Chuck Brooks, PBA Vice President. Our goal is to also record this meeting and make it available through the PBA website and Facebook page after the virtual meeting.

Please see the information below to join the zoom meeting. For those of you who are zoom meeting for the first time, you will need to download the Zoom app. You do not however have to open or have an account. I suggest you set up well before the meeting because of possible technical difficulties. ~

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Meeting ID and Password are obtained from the email sent to all PBA members with current dues and updated email addresses. If you did not receive a email with Zoom meeting ID and Password, please check with PBA Club Secretary Lea Plummer. Her contact info is listed under heading About Us, then click Contact Us, or type Lea Plummer into search engine on this web page.

** Meeting cancelled - the Thursday, April 16th 2020 Piedmont Beekeepers Association meeting has been cancelled due to current large gathering restrictions in place due to COV-19 virus concerns.

Monthly PBA meeting - CANCELLED

• Due to concerns of Coronavirus (COVID-19) and CDC, WHO, and State and Federal recommendations of social distancing to limit rapid spread of the virus, our monthly meeting has been cancelled.