"Our Club is comprised of men and women dedicated to the modern practice of keeping honey bees"

• Honey is the safest food in the world;

• A worker honeybee will produce about 1 teaspoon of honey in her life span;

• There is a record of a Queen honeybee living for 8 years! However, more typically they may live for 3 years;

• Drone bees have a life span of about 59 days in the summer;

• Honey has been used for wound dressings for thousands of years, before antibiotics were developed;

• Honeybees have the ability to share information about available nectar and pollen. One way they communicate is by dancing;

• Honeybees can also communicate by pheromones (alarm odors and sexual attractants);

• A honeybee colony is a social unit. A single nest can have as many as 50 to 60,000 individuals.

Membership to the HDBA is available

for the low price of $15.00 per year

Club Membership will:

• keep you informed of the latest developments in beekeeping;

• enable you to attend lectures by the Provincial Apiarist (usually twice a year);

• put you in contact with professional and amateur beekeepers with a vast store of beekeeping experience that they will share with you;

• direct you towards "state of the art" literature;

• introduce you to a potential beekeeping "mentor".  Finding a beekeeper willing to teach "hands on" in the yard is vital to every beginner.  The HDBA has a number of highly skilled professional and amateur beekeepers willing to help the beginner beekeeper.

Click here to find out more about our monthly meetings.