Agenda:

Membership check-in at 6:30 p.m. followed by presentation at 7:00 p.m.

Presentation is open to the public.

Randy will share with us the joys and the challenges of beekeeping. he will explain to us the difficulty of over-wintering the bees. He will talk about the threat of declining space for bees to seek food, and effects of the unpredictable Michigan weather. Randy will also talk to us about ways gardeners can help to encourage the health and number of honeybees. We will learn the importance of planting for pollinators.

Randy List has been a member of the Southeastern Michigan BeeKepers Asscoiation since 2019. His interest was piqued quite by accident. Randy was helping at his son’s apple orchard. Naturally honey bees were attracted to the fruit, which led to Randy becoming interested in studying the boney bee behavior. He and his son continue to work together raising honey bees and producing honey. Randy also enjoys teaching others about honey bees at Tollgate Farm and Education Center in Novi.

Learn more at www.canr.msu.edu/tollgate