1. Upper Eastern Shore Beekeeping Association

Extractor Available for Use

Extraction information from our website: https://www.uesbees.org/

The UESBA Honey Extraction is operating. All extraction equipment is provided-

Just bring your WARM honey frames and containers to haul your honey away.
Location: Piney Grove Events, 7281 Wilkins La., Chestertown
To Schedule-Contact: Gary Robson 443-480-2285, <robsongaryandnancy@gmail.com>

2. Montgomery County Beekeepers Association

Fireside Chat - on Zoom

Tuesday, September 1, 2026 at 7:00 pm

Fireside Chat is a monthly Zoom meeting for new and newish beekeepers to get their questions answered by experienced beekeepers from our region. What to expect? What needs to happen in the coming weeks? Join hosts Rick Wallace and Ryan Eicher on Zoom for this relaxed hour of bee-talk.

Link at: https://montgomerycountybeekeepers.com/fireside_chat/

3. Susquehanna Beekeepers Association of Maryland

September 9, 2026 at 7:00pm

Harford County Agricultural Center, 3525 Conowingo Road, Suite 600, Street MD 21154

Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85023682244?pwd=0mrqUEPuabMMAZWl7HAyE2u1tUGGm1.1

Research on drone food and development and drone behavior by Izaak Gilchrist and Jonathan Nixon from the Harpur lab at Perdue.

Contact person: Harry Dutcher , susquehannabeekeepers@gmail.com

4. Montgomery County Beekeepers Association

Wednesday, September 9, 2026 (in person only)

Faith United Methodist Church, 6810 Montrose Road, Rockville MD

6:30 pm - Socializing

7:00 pm - Club announcements and "What's Up with The Bees?"

7:30 pm - Valerie Wampler demonstration/presentation on "Cooking with Honey"

Valerie Wampler, EAS Certified Master Beekeeper, is a lifelong gardener and ADS Senior Dahlia Judge who fell into beekeeping in 2016 thanks to a dahlia obsession. Currently the Secretary of the Maryland State Beekeepers Association, Valerie teaches throughout Maryland and leads the "Yard Bees" apiary program at the Howard County Detention Center. A passionate advocate for pollinator education, she is also a prolific maker who incorporates hive products into her work as a spinner, weaver, quilter, and soap maker. Valerie has curated an amazing online COOK BOOK for using LOCAL HONEY. You should explore it in advance of her presentation so you can ask questions. It is on the Maryland State Beekeepers Association website under the 'Features' tab www.mdbeekeepers.org

Consider sending your honey customers to this cookbook to spur their need for MORE LOCAL HONEY!

5. Upper Eastern Shore Beekeepers Association

September 15, 2026 at 6:30 PM

Shrewsbury Parish, 12824 Shrewsbury Church Road, Kennedyville, MD

Plenty of parking.  Hope to see you there 🐝

"Beekeeping with John Benham"

John Benham has been keeping bees over twenty-five years and rearing his own queens from locally caught survivor stock for more than twenty of those years. He is an Eastern Apiculture Society Certified Master Beekeeper and EAS Master Beekeeper examiner. He served as the 2015 president of the Kentucky State Beekeepers and was the 2015 Beekeeper of The Year. He has served as an officer in numerous local, state and national associations. He considers his speaking to various beekeeping groups in numerous states across the US a humbling honor and extremely valuable in his on-going education about honey bees, always using the unknown quote, "If a beekeeper tells you he knows what he's doing, be wary and keep a keen eye on this fellow, for he has already told one lie, and no doubt will tell you another." 

Contact: Max de Arriz, Maxdearriz@gmail.com

6. Carroll County Beekeepers Association

September 16, 2026 at 7:30pm

Bear Branch Nature Center

ZOOM LINK:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89783214782?pwd=snKa9RIGw9OgzsztY60U4CBbjzeb6t.1

Meeting ID: 897 8321 4782
Passcode: 695213

"Plan to Succeed: Making a Personalized Action Plan"

An action plan is a structured strategy that pinpoints steps, tasks, and resources vital to turning a goal into reality. Successful beekeepers all develop a system for handling their bees throughout the year. We will walk through how to set goals for your beekeeping journey, creating a calendar of important dates, and developing your own monthly beekeeping plan.  Although all beekeeping is local, you should be able to set up the framework for creating success with your own beekeeping regardless of where you live.

SPEAKER: Kim Mehalick is a retired engineer and now full-time beekeeper. Kim is an EAS Master Beekeeper. She is the past President of the Maryland State Beekeepers Association (MSBA) and is active in the Bowie Upper Marlboro Beekeepers Association (BUMBA) as mentoring program lead and manager of the teaching apiary) and the DC Beekeepers Alliance (education committee). She regularly teaches in short courses on a variety of topics.

Kim has worked to increase education opportunities within MSBA, and developed the popular nucs and splits class. She was the driving force behind the Beekeeping Year 2 and Beyond ten session class, which became a reality once Mike Mehalick and Allen Storm joined the development/teaching team. They won the MSBA George Imirie Award for Education excellence in Nov 2023. Her favorite part of beekeeping, after mentoring new beekeepers, is making queens through a variety of backyard beekeeper methods. Sharing the wonder of opening a hive, and discovering how the bees
think is a wonderful thing to do.

Kim and Mike Mehalick keep about 80 hives on their property and various outyards as part of their “The Queen’s Honey” apiary. They run primarily medium equipment and sell nucs each spring. Since 2013, they have also sold hive products from their company Clean Bee Soapworks including honey, bees, soap, lotions, bath bombs and lip balms.

Contact person: Jenny Bumgardner, bumgajl@msn.com

7. Maryland State Beekeepers Association

MSBA invites members to support three important projects - (1) The Maryland Apiary Inspection Fund, which supplements the salaries of our bee inspectors, (2) The new Lamas Honey Bee Lab at the University of Maryland Baltimore County, and (3) the general fund of MSBA. Donation link at https://www.mdbeekeepers.org/bee-supportive/

8. PHOTO: Maryland beekeepers at the 2026 EAS Conference

Each summer, Maryland’s beekeepers outnumber most other state’s participants at the Eastern Apicultural Society Conference.

The 2026 EAS Conference was held in Shepherdsville, Kentucky.

The 2027 EAS Conference is expected to be held in Plainfield, Indiana (in the Indianapolis area) from July 25–30, 2027