Welcome to Illinois Valley Beekeepers Association

is a support group for people interested in getting started keeping bees.

Next meeting is Friday October 11th, 2019

7:00 PM to 9:00PM

1689 N. 31st Road, Ottawa, IL 61350

(Across from Farm & Fleet)

Lower Level of Ottawa Extension 

Office

This is going to be a great meeting!  

We will also have the wonderful Bee Questions.

BEE THERE OR BEE SQUARE! 

We would like to Thank everyone who came to the Meeting and those who brought the yummy treats also!

We had a wonderful meeting which included a talk on the flow hive - pros and cons - and an explanation of how it works.

We had a very informative talk on getting your bees ready for winter and feeding them to get them ready also.  Now is also the time to test and or treat so your winter bees can bee all they can bee and live as long as possible! 

And as always we learn so much from the wonderful bee questions!

Next meeting will be time again to elect the officers for the coming year.     

SUPPORT GROUP FOR BEGINNER BEEKEEPERS OR HELP GETTING STARTED!

We have monthly meetings to help the beginner or anyone who has questions.   

We welcome anyone who would like to come and talk at any of our meetings.  We are always looking for speakers about beekeeping, observation hives, wax making, honey extracting, pretty much anything bees!

Total membership Fees this year will be $20.00 - $10.00 for the IVBA Club and $10.00 to Join the ISBA Club.  The new year started in January.

We are rejoining the ISBA this will give us more information on what is happening down state and they have a lot of good information about new things with bees.