Jan 2020
Jan 2020
Please participate in the OCBA Website Survey that can be found at this link https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/OCBA_Website
The survey will take < 5 minutes and will help us improve our OCBA Website features. Thank you!
The survey will be open from January 9th 2020 to February 5th.
Are you interested in being part of the Website Design Workgroup? Responsibilities of this group are:
- Review of the survey results
- Gather additional website need information
- Compile list of website specifications
- Review website designer proposals
- Select designer to redesign the OCBA website, this includes rebranding
Contact Celeste Mayer, OCBA 2020 President with questions or to volunteer for the Website Design Workgroup. cmmayer@mindspring.com or 919-971-1005.
10.10.19 Golden Achievement Chapter Project Grant Award and Application
Jan 2020
If you did not get here in time, we encourage you to join us for our regular monthly meetings in Hillsborough. Also there are other high-quality introductory bee schools in this area, such as the one offered by Person County Beekeepers Association in Roxboro (http://www.personcountybeekeepers.org/bee-school/) and Bailey Bee Supply, held in North Raleigh (https://baileybeesupply.com/educational_resources/beginner-beekeeping-class/). Both of those have large venues, are open to participants regardless of residence and have plenty of spaces remaining. In addition, the NC State Beekeepers Association has a list of bee schools and beginner classes across the state (https://www.ncbeekeepers.org/calendar).
Jan 2020
Improve Floral Diversity for Bees

Honey Bees on a Maypop in Roos’ Garden
Chatham County Cooperative Extension Agriculture Agent Debbie Roos will talk about the importance of floral diversity to honey bee health and provide tips on how to increase diversity and maximize benefits to honey bees. Debbie will share her top plants for bees and give a virtual tour of her popular demonstration pollinator garden in Pittsboro, NC that features over 220 unique species, 85% of them native to North Carolina. She will also share resources she has developed for farmers and gardeners interested in enhancing pollinator habitat that can be found on her website at www.carolinapollinatorgarden.org.
Bio:
Since 1999 Debbie Roos has been an Agriculture Agent for the Chatham County Center of North Carolina Cooperative Extension where she is responsible for programming in the areas of commercial vegetable production, organic production, pollinator conservation, alternative agricultural enterprises, forestry, and beekeeping. Debbie delivers educational programming to growers through regular workshops and her award-winning Growing Small Farms website (www.growingsmallfarms.org). Debbie is passionate about pollinator conservation and has planted demonstration habitats and developed resources to teach others about the importance of bees and other pollinators to our agriculture ecosystem.
Dec 2019