**************If you want to come, please REPLY to the email Beth sent with the number of people attending and the dish you will bring.****************

We are having an extraction workshop on Saturday November 22, 2014, beginning at 10:00 a.m. We will extract about 5 full honey supers and pour it into 5 gallon buckets.

The November OBBA meeting is Thursday, November 20, 2014 at 7:00 p.m. We will meet in the Magnolia Room of the Orange County Extension offices located at 6021 S. Conway Road, Orlando.

We will have our end of year elections for President and Vice President.

President - one candidate AL MORENO

Vice President - two candidates: SESHETA MWANZA and MATTHEW WHITE

The October OBBA meeting is Thursday, October 16, 2014.

We meet in the Azalea Room of the Orange County Extension offices, at 7:00 p.m. The address is 6021 S. Conway Road, Orlando.

The nominating committee has received a few names for the positions of President and Vice President. So if you wish to run, please reply to this email. Let us know what position you are applying for.

The September OBBA meeting is coming soon. We meet Thursday, September 18, 2014 in the Azalea Room of the Orange County Extension offices, 6021 S. Conway Road, Orlando. The meeting will begin at 7:00 p.m.
This months speaker is Eric Sespico, Environmental Administrator of the Division of Agricultural Environmental Services, Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (FDACS).

He will be speaking on pollinator protection activities in the Department of Agriculture. This topic is crucial to all beekeepers so you don't want to miss this presentation.

Instead, join us for National Honey Bee Day, Saturday August 23, 2014 a the Orange County Extension Offices, 5021 S. Conway Road, Orlando, FL.

The event will be from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Thank you.

Join us in the AUDITORIUM of the Orange County Extension Offices for our July meeting. The meeting is Thursday, July 17, 2014.

We meet at 7:00 p.m. and the address is 6021 S. Conway Road, Orlando.

It's June already? Holy smokes!

Come to the Orange Blossom Beekeepers Association June meeting on Thursday, June 19, 2014 at 7:00 in the Azalea Room of the Orange County Extension Offices. The address is 6021 S. Conway Road, Orlando.

Meanwhile, don't forget to watch Chris Stalder speak (interviewed by Nick Kroger as a guest on "Joy In Our Town" on WHLV TV 52 (Brighthouse channel 22) on two topics: "Helping Floridians Understand Snakes" and "Gardening for Native Pollinators & Honey Bees" which will air on these dates:

The Orange Blossom Beekeepers Association May meeting is Thursday May 15, 2014 at 7:00. We will meet in the Azalea Room of the Extension Offices, 6021 S. Conway Road.

Jessica Sullivan will be speaking to us about honey bottling and cottage food rules.

ALSO!!!!!

An extraction workshop will be Saturday May 17, same location, at 9:00 a.m.

The plan now is to meet in the parking lot. We will have a net canopy set up to prevent robbing and will try to do the extraction somewhere in the vicinity of the rear of the auditorium building.