Each November since 1908, the Maryland State Beekeepers Association has elected a leadership group dedicated to supporting our club’s mission of supporting beekeepers and beekeeping through education and outreach. Several hundred, all-volunteer officers have led and supported MSBA for 111 years! Please welcome (and thank!) your local and statewide officers: they want to be a point of contact and resource for you, and to hear what you have to say.

In December, Maryland beekeeper and MSBA officer Ben Cooper published All Nature Sings: A Devotional Guide to Animals in the Bible, including a lovely chapter on honey bees. Did you know that bees are found only 3 times in the Bible, but honey and honeycomb together get more than 60 mentions? Similar pointers about more than two dozen other animals are included, and there are three useful appendices as well. Ben says the book project took him 24 years, and Read More …