December Newsletter - the Holiday Party and Competitions Edition!
Holiday Party and Competitions! Sunday, December 1st @ the Louisville Nature Center @ 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m
*Reminder this is also a pot-luck style event, so bring a dish with you to share. The club will be providing deli sandwiches.
This year, we will be giving away four awards going to the below categories. Get your entries ready!
2019 Volunteer of the Year - pre-selected by leadership.
Best Edible Honey Product - Any kind of edible food product made with honey. This includes savory dishes like honey bbq wings or honey cornbread cakes, spiced honey butter, honey bread as well as drinks like mead and honey tea. Creamed honey flavored or unflavored is also included in this category. Will be judged by the crowd. Everyone will get a ticket to vote. Unlimited entries per person.
Best Honey Dessert - Speaks for itself, bring your baklava, honey cakes, honey tarts, honey nut bars, honey cookies, honey pies and more! Will be judged by the crowd. Everyone will get a ticket to vote. Unlimited entries per person.
Best Black Jar Honey - Bring in your different honey varieties, we will pour a little in a small cup for judges and return the bottle to you (it doesn't have to be in a black jar). Unlimited entries per person. We will have a panel of judges who will vote on the honey by FLAVOR alone.
Election Results
We confirmed officer nominations and elected the following Beekeepers for the 2020 year. Congratulations and THANK YOU for your service!
President: Lara Augustine
Vice-President: Karen Shade
Treasurer: Marci Early
Secretary: Haileigh Arnold
If you have any suggestions on content or would like to host a field day please send us an email kba@kyanabees.com.
New Online Merchandise Store
President Lara Augustine has created an online KBA merchandise store where you can buy shirts, hats, and mugs in Men, Women, and Youth sizes. This eliminates the club as a middle man and makes it so you can customize it exactly like you want. There are sales all of the time on the merchandise, so the price listed isn't the final price. There is almost always a 15% sale going on, and on Black Friday, they are advertising a 50% off sale! The club is taking NO PROCEEDS from these sales, we just wanted to provide you an opportunity to wear your club Logo with pride and support your local beekeeping organization! 20 products available!!!
https://kyanabees.logosoftwear.com/
Beekeeping 101
In January, we will have our Beekeeping 101 class for any new beekeepers led by President Lara Augustine. And if you are an experienced beekeeper, please come out as well to help out the newbees!
We will go over basic honeybee care, what equipment you need, and where to buy bees. If anyone is pre-selling nucs, please send us an email to kba@kyanabees.com so we can list you on our website as we have had new beekeepers asking about buying local honeybees!
FYI, all meeting dates for 2020 have been posted on our calendar except for a pending date in February! www.kyanabees.com/calendar. Content will be added as far as the topic before the end of the year.
