Click here to sign up for the spring conference! Click here to see the conference schedule! The speakers will be... Grant Gillard is a beekeeper and Presbyterian pastor in Holden, Missouri. He keeps around 80 hives, selling honey at the farmer’s markets in Lee’s Summit, Missouri. … [Read More...]
Field Day
May 2nd, 2020 If you’re a new beekeeper wanting to build your knowledge and skill in the craft of keeping bees, you’ll want to put this on your calendar! The second annual MSBA Spring Field Day is scheduled for May 2, 2020 at the Arcadia Academy in Ironton, Missouri. Building on the success of … [Read More...]
Event Speakers
Do you have an interest in passing on your knowledge? We are creating a list of speakers that would travel to other clubs/events to present topics of interest. Click here to sign up or ask further questions. … [Read more...]
Master Beekeeping Program
Are you interested in furthering your education? Great Plains Master Beekeeping Program makes its debut in Missouri! By Gregg Hitchings - msbagregg@gmail.com Another chapter in Missouri beekeeping was opened at MSBA’s October 18-19, 2019 fall conference in Moberly. Sheldon Brummel, … [Read more...]
Missouri Leads Nation
Missouri leads the nation with a concerted effort to increase monarch habitat, according to Brent Vandeloecht, Mo. Dept of Conservation and the Chairman for the Collaborative Working Group within Missourians for Monarchs Collaborative chairman. Monarch population numbers have decreased 90% … [Read more...]
New VP for MSBA
Randy Ewart and his wife of 41 years, Martha, live in Wayland, Missouri. They have two daughters – Hannah and Katie Ewart (20 years apart). He has been involved in beekeeping for the past ten years. He began beekeeping initially when he and Katie Ewart, his youngest daughter was getting involved … [Read more...]
TED Talk – Why Bugs Matter
Our own Charlotte Wiggins presents a TEDx Talk on why bugs matter... Charlotte Ekker Wiggins is a lifelong gardener, but it was not until she started to keep honeybees in her garden that she began to understand the scope of the pollinators, down to honeybees providing 1/3 of the world’s food … [Read more...]
…Wins National Award!
The National Association of County Agricultural Agents has awarded Missouri’s Master Pollinator Steward Program with a National Search for Excellence Award for Environmental Quality. The Environmental Quality award recognizes the development and implementation of an outstanding extension … [Read more...]
