Chautauqua is the Creek Seminole word for rendezvous, which is meeting under truce for trade or exchanging information. Time for Pow Wow and peace talks.
We have added another definition. Rendezvous to exchange ideas and goods and to help new beekeepers by giving them direction and answer questions at the same time as giving information on [...]

I attended this past Saturday, a workshop sponsored by the Tupelo Beekeepers Association. It was held at Laurence Cutt’s honey house in Chipley, FL. There were 150 registured participants and I would guess about half of them were new wannabee’s and about 1/4 th of the remaining were new beekeepers with one to three [...]

Here is the next beekeeping workshop in Northwest:
TUPELO BEEKEEPERS ASSOCIATION (Preregister by July 3)
Beginning Beekeepers Seminar
Cutts Honey House
1533 Clayton Road
Chipley, Fl. 32348
When? July 12, 2008. The cost for this is $15.00 each and $10.00 per child. You must register by July 3, 2008.
Preregistration is required to assure a quality/quantity [...]

I finally got off to Orlando. I was tired after extracting the honey. I didn’t get off as early as I had hoped, but I still got down there about 7:00 pm. I found the meeting place so I could go to it fairly easily the next day, June 13.
I was there at 15 minutes [...]

Well, the workshop was a great success even though it started off all wrong. As the chairman of the workshop committee, I was responsible for all the wrongs that happened. All the rights were given to all my helpers and co members of the committee. There were about 69 people in attendance.
To [...]

AT LAST! I can relax for a while. The Workshop was held on March 1, 2008 and was a great success. We had 69 people attending and had Bar-B-Cued chicken and home made pork and beans using bacon strips. Delicious!
The day started off with my not having the schedule, so we [...]

Well, I made it to the state convention in plenty of time. I arrived in Haines City, FL about 9:30 pm on Wed. Oct. 31st. Spent the night and made it to the Holiday Inn in Winter Haven at about 6:45 am Thursday. The first activity was for the CEU’s for the [...]

Well, my wife and I went to the Heritage Festival at Krul Lake in Munson. We rented a 30′ motor home from Cruise America on Friday, then loaded our camping supplies and went to Krul Lake that afternoon. We got there about dusk and had to hurry to get it set up and [...]

The Florida State Beekeepers Association will have its annual workshop and business meeting November 1-3 in Winter Haven, Florida. The state meeting usually has some very good speakers that talk on a level that a country fellow can understand. There will be an awards banquet as well as a beginners class. This [...]

The workshop was held Saturday, September 15, 2007. There were between 80-100 people there. I did not get an accurate count for the people were moving around and in and out the doors. In attendance were quite a few novices and young beekeepers. Most of these are young people. [...]