2025-01-23 COBA January Meeting - Elections, Beekeeper things to consider in new year - new beekeeper's experience

Forwarding President Rick Schantz' FB post:

🎉happy New Year🎉.  

That’s right it’s a New Year for COBA. Our January meeting is going to be this Thursday. Sorry for the late post. But this Thursday 1/23/2025 at 7:00 to 9:00 PM at Will Gardens Exhibition Center 3400 NW 36th we will be having our first meeting of the year. 

The first 1/2 of the meeting will be a business meeting, electing new officers. 

If anyone wants to run for President, Vice President, Treasurer, or Secretary you need to get in touch with Steve Davis. He is our nominee confirming committee. You must have been a member for at least one year and in good standing with the club to run for office. His email is:
Klassikars@aol.com or see him at the beginning of the meeting. 

We will have other business to go over. 

The second 1/2 of the meeting we will cover things that new and seasoned beekeepers should consider at the beginning of each year. 

Also a second year beekeeper will talk about their experience they had their first year and Tom Hall will expand on their experience. 

🐝🐝🐝🐝see you Thursday 🐝🐝🐝🐝

2024-08-22 COBA August Meeting - Honey Tasting!

 Forwarded post from President Rick Schantz:

🍯HONEY TASTING MEETING 🍯

August, 22 ,2024
7:00 to 9:00pm
Will Rogers Gardens Exhibition Center
3400 NW 36th St. Oklahoma City

There will be instructions on alcohol washing to find mite loads. Oxalic acid vaporizer usage. And other options to get rid of Varroa mites in your hives. 

The second 1/2 of the meeting will be for socializing and tasting the different honey gathered by our club members. 

Be sure and bring a snack dish. We will supply the drinks and eating utensils. 

Please bring your honey samples in a small squeezable container, with a drip type lid for sampling. 

See you Thursday night!

2024-07-25 COBA July Meeting

From President Rick Schantz:

July meeting this Thursday evening 7/25/2024 from 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm at Will Rogers Gardens Exhibition Center 3400 NW 36th St, Oklahoma City.

We will be talking about different methods to extract your honey from frames. We will do live demonstrations of extracting. Gravity method, crush and strain, centrifugal extraction, these will all be demonstrated at this meeting. I will show my extracting room with two 20 frame extractors and chain flail de-capper.

We will not be sampling honey this meeting, but will do that at our August meeting.

Additional notes:

Feel free to bring a snack to share during the break, and/or a small item for the door prize drawing.

The meeting is open to the public.

2024-04-25 COBA Meeting

We will meet as usual at the Will Rogers Gardens Exhibition Center, 3400 NW 36th St, OKC at 7:00-9:00 PM.  President Rick Schantz will be giving a presentation on installing packages and nucs (nucleus colonies) in your hives.  We will go over some of the problems people have when installing and caring for their new colony of bees.

The Blog is Back!

After an over 8 year hiatus, we are resurrecting the old blog to make information available about club activities.  The website which replaced the blog is down for the foreseeable future, so we'll resume posting information here.  When we get a website back up, We'll post that here too.

We still have the highly active Facebook group, but not everyone uses FB.

Frankly, I'm shocked any of us still had a working logon.

This is the OLD blog for COBA - Central Oklahoma Beekeepers Association, LLC

This is the OLD blog for COBA - Central Oklahoma Beekeepers Association, LLC

For the latest information, please go to one of the following:

COBA Website:

• centralokbeekeepers.org 

COBA Facebook Group:

•  www.facebook.com/groups/CentralOkBeekeepersAssoc