Watch this 4 minute preview of EAS 2024 in Maryland!
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Have you ever registered for the EAS 2024 Quick Direction and Convention? In not up to two months Turf Valley Hotel in Ellicott Town will likely be swarming with beekeepers from hither and yon, from Canada to California, or even out of the country.
Registration closes on July 1. You should be a member to sign in.
EAS is known for its 3 missions: training, analysis, and Grasp Beekeepers. The 2-day Quick Direction (Aug 5-6) supplies 16 hours of very good categories at novice, intermediate and complicated ranges. However wait, there’s extra! The microscopy lab leads you thru an in depth exam of honey bee anatomy, together with dissecting queens. The queen rearing elegance takes you thru complicated queen rearing. Our apiary, proper out the again door, supplies fingers on demos and time to invite sensible questions of wizened mavens.
We’re introducing the “Deep Dive” elegance this yr. Bring to mind those as in-depth seminars on particular subjects: honey display judging, honey bee biology, will increase with splits and nucs, and varroa and prison therapies. What’s other, and we consider particular, is the thorough protection. For instance, as a substitute studying about Varroa from lectures and categories at other conferences right through the yr, as is par for the path, you are going to achieve an intensive and complete figuring out in a single elegance. We’re Maryland beekeepers; we’re daring; we’re keen to check out new approaches and the Deep Dive is our daring new try to supply a greater lesson.
The 3-day Convention (Aug 7-9) is similarly jam-packed with attainable to toughen your bee and beekeeping wisdom in addition to beekeeping and bee crafting talents. There will likely be extra power and job than bees in a swarm! Mornings start with across the world identified keynote audio system and afternoons be offering a huge and various set of workshops and categories.
Do you know EAS has budgeted $20,000 in 2024 for honey bee analysis grants? That is seed cash for researchers to turn better grant organizations that the biggest non-commercial beekeepers’ group has reviewed and vetted the proposal and put their cash the place their mouth is. EAS additionally supplies further cash for scholarships, popularity for very good scholar analysis, in addition to spotting excellence in apicultural training and public outreach. All of that is supported by means of donations and income from the Convention.
The EAS Grasp Beekeeper program no longer best checks candidates on the Convention, however many MBs educate categories all over the Quick Direction and the Convention. Up your beekeeping recreation and spot what it approach to be an EAS Grasp Beekeeper.
Our seller corridor will assist you to see actual apparatus first-hand. Some providers even will assist you to order on-line free of charge supply at EAS! Have one thing large in thoughts?? Right here’s your probability!
And, in any case, beekeepers may have amusing! There are social occasions, deliberate and unplanned each and every night. Make new pals, be told new methods, proportion concepts over dinner and a couple of beverages.
Take a look at the EAS agenda at the MSBA or EAS internet pages.