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Join us for our FREE monthly meeting in April!  Starts at 6:30 pm. This meeting will focus on early spring management and feeding.  Top Bar and Langstroth.See More

Hello Beekeepers and Happy New Year! Please join us for our first meeting of 2013 on Thursday March 7th @ 6:30 pm.  This FREE meeting will focus on hiving packages, swarm retrieval, and new ideas for the 2013 season.  Top Bar and Langstroth demonstrations. See More

Join us for our Annual Meeting in January! Admission is free, but we encourage family membership to the NMBKA for $30 per year. Special Guest Speaker is Tammy Horn who was an English professor for ten years until, as 2006 NEH Chair of Appalachian Studies, she began to study the potential impact of surface mining on honey bees.  In 2007, unemployed, she began writing grants and working with coal companies to create Coal Country Beeworks.  In 2013, she is now working the third book of the *bee…See More

Let's break bread together and celebrate a fantastic year of beekeeping. Bring either a dish to share or your best bee stories! This is a family friendly event. Also bring a pumpkin. We'll have a table set up for carving. The location is a private residence located close to Downtown, Albuquerque. Make sure to RSVP and the directions will be sent out the week before the event. See More

Hello Everyone! Join us for the ABQ beeks meeting September 27th @ 6:30 pm- 8:30 pm.  It's a FREE meeting of Albuquerque beekeepers, both new and experienced.Melanie and Mark from Zia Queen Bee in Northern NM will be sharing their strategies for establishing, enhancing and maintaining healthy genetics in apiaries as an individual beekeeper and as a beekeeping community. They will also be hosting a …See More

Hello Everyone! Join us for the ABQ beeks meeting August 30th @ 6:30- 8:30 pm.  It's a FREE meeting of Albuquerque beekeepers, both new and experienced.We are pleased to have Les Crowder joining us to talk about Troubleshooting your Hive, Requeening and Disease Recognition/ Management. Come with questions and problems! Les Crowder and Heather Harrell have just published a fantastic book on Top Bar Beekeeping. You can find copies at…See More

The 87105 zip spans the South Valley. Beeks here encounter both urban & rural environments. This group is for those who live in the 87105 zip code, those who have hives here, & their friends. Let's network, swap stories, help each other out!

THIS EVENT IS NOW FULL----------------------------------------This FREE event is organized through the Albuquerque Beekeeping group. It's our annual Spring field day! New beekeepers are welcome.Bring a veil and come out for an interactive day exploring beekeeping. Top bar hives: TJ Carr will give a tour of a live beehive and discuss TBHs.Langstroth: Craig Noorlander will demo Langstroth equipment onsite and answer questions about hive management.WHAT TO BRING:Bee veil (bring extras to share if…See More