Don't miss these upcoming events! Switch to Calendar View Honey harvesting made easier When 7 Jun 2023 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM Location St. John Armenian Church, 275 Olympia Way, SF Veteran beekeeper and SFBA board member Peter Wohlers shares tips for making your honey harvest faster and simpler. "Honey extraction can be frustrating, messy and time consuming, even when you use one of the club's motorized extractors," says Peter. "So over the years, I've improved the process with techniques and tools that make it less onerous -- and yield consistently great, crystal-free honey." Please join us to polish up your extracting skills for the coming season! Show details Biosecurity for the Backyard Beekeeper When 5 Jul 2023 6:30 PM Location St. John Armenian Church, 275 Olympia Way, SF SFBA member Lindsay Wilson, who is both a beekeeper and an experienced veterinarian, will focus on what she calls "biosecurity for the hobbyist beekeeper" -- meaning how to keep your bees healthy! This talk will review common bacterial diseases of honeybees, explain how to check your hives for trouble, and outline best prevention practices. Wilson, medical director at an SF veterinary clinic and candidate for California Master Beekeeper at UC Davis, says she hopes to send everyone home with practical strategies to follow this summer and fall. Hope you can join us! Show details Past events 6 May 2023 Bee Delivery Day 2023 3 May 2023 Expand, Split or Swarm? 5 Apr 2023 California native bees and ecology 25 Mar 2023 Beekeeping 102 - Basic Beekeeping 1 Mar 2023 How to prevent -- or capture -- swarms 25 Feb 2023 Beekeeping 101 - Essential Equipment 1 Feb 2023 Take better pictures of your bees with Phil Frank 4 Jan 2023 No January meeting -- take a rest! 7 Dec 2022 Finally: the Annual Holiday Party! 9 Nov 2022 Holiday gifts you can make with bee products 5 Oct 2022 How to prep your bees for the winter 10 Sep 2022 SFBA Annual Picnic 27 Aug 2022 Harvest your honey at Extraction Day 3 Aug 2022 The latest on pesticides and bees 6 Jul 2022 Major Branzel's tips & tricks for beekeepers 1 Jun 2022 Tad Fukami on the ecosystem of nectar 4 May 2022 Aidan Wing on small-scale queen rearing 23 Apr 2022 Bee Delivery Day 26 Mar 2022 Beekeeping 102 - Basic Beekeeping 2 Mar 2022 Aerial Gilbert, Marin county's blind beekeeper 26 Feb 2022 Beekeeping 101 - Essential Equipment 2 Feb 2022 Getting the most from packaged bees 5 Jan 2022 No monthly meeting in January 1 Dec 2021 Paul Koski on winter-proofing your hive 3 Nov 2021 How bee brains help us understand humans 6 Oct 2021 Jerry Bromenshenk on electronic colony sensing Events