Lane County Beekeeper’s Association

10/20/2026

Join us for our monthly meeting tomorrow (Tuesday 10/20), doors at 6:15 and meeting starts at 6:30. We will feature two presentations. We have Dawnetta M. Loomis talking about the Bee Basic beekeeping program for veterans, and Mike Rodia will talk about how OSBA works with local government officials to respond and change residential beekeeping rules. Hope to catch you at the Irvine Grange tomorrow.

09/17/2026

Wanted to thank everyone who came out to celebrate 50 years of LCBA on Tuesday at the Art House. Will post some more pictures, and share a link to the LCBA documentary we debuted on the big screen soon. Pictured here is our first club president Gene Garner (left) and Chuck Hunt (club president 1998-2003). It was really great to have so many founding and foundational members in the building; creating and sustaining an organization like this take tooooons of dedication and time. And as a nonprofit we could also use more people like this…are you one of those people?

09/16/2026

Dr. Dewey Caron giving us the business about beekeeping evolution over the last 50 years at our 50th year anniversary at the Art House.

09/06/2026

Just a reminder our next meeting on September 15 will be at the Art House (fka the Bijou) not the grange as we celebrate 50 years of community and service in Lane County. This meeting will feature a talk by our long time member and contributor, Dr. Dewey Caron, the premier of a short documentary film on the club, and we will take some time to honor some of our foundational and long-time members. Also, we will have our shirts, hoodies and patches with our more logo available. This event is free and open to all. 6p is doors and we start at 6:30.

08/27/2026

Hey yall. Please join us September 15 for our regular meeting and a special celebration of LCBA’s 50 years serving Lane County. Our meeting will NOT be at the grange but at the Art House in Eugene. We will have long-time member Dewey Caron presenting on overwintering and a special short doc on the club. Doors at 6 and meeting at 6:30. We will also be honoring some long time members. Free and open to all. We will also have our new patches, hoodies and tees available for purchase if you want to rep LCBA.

The Lane County Beekeepers Association is preparing to celebrate its 50th anniversary.

08/16/2026

Join us this Tuesday at the Irving Grange for our August meeting. Doors at 6:15 and we get to business at 6:30. This month we have Tom Cinquini Tom Cinquini who owns and operates Sowers Apiaries and is President of OSBA talking about how to read brood frames and make decisions about the overall hive quickly. We also have Dr. Priya Chakrabarti Basu from Washington State University Department of Entomology joining via zoom to talk about honeybee nutrition. The meeting is free and open to all. Just to note, our September meeting will be held at Art House to celebrate our 50 year anniversary with Dewey Caron and a screening of a short documentary on the club plus some other great things. More on that soon. See you Tuesday!

08/11/2026

It’s that time of year (and has been for a few weeks) for honey extraction and we just dropped a new extraction tutorial on our YouTube Channel. For most of us who have never done this, extraction is super exciting but it may feel daunting and confusing. So, we had Andre Sirois break down the basics of this in Honey Extraction 101 (filmed and edited by Daylan Petersen-Duran). Please add your ideas and what you do in the comments section.

We cover where to extract, what you need, how to uncap with the fork, extracting with a radial or tangential hand crank or motorized extractor, straining, removing foam, bottling and cleanup and storage. This is all aimed at basic concepts with basic tools. This is a longer tutorial so we built in chapters to navigate (in the info section) and will add some links to various tools used here. Hopefully this is helpful. Our next tutorial will be on feeding, which you may want to consider soon if your bees aren’t up to weight. Happy extraction yall!!!

These are just some tools and ways to do this. This should be just ...

07/26/2026

Good morning. Got some weak hives? Need to requeen? Laying worker? Check out this newspaper combine tutorial video with Andre Sirois on our YouTube channel. Please share, like, and subscribe. We have a few more of these dropping on honey extraction basics and seasonal feeding.

Combining hives using the newspaper method is a very handy tool. It...

07/23/2026

The Matt Stouder talk from our meeting this week, “All About Comb,” is up on our YouTube channel. Please like and subscribe to our YouTube as we have a lot of good stuff dropping there the next few weeks. We are one of the few bee clubs in the state and probably the country dropping quality video content so please take advantage, share and partake.

On July 21, 2026 Matt Stouder gave the talk "All Things Comb."Ple...