Annual Meeting

The Summer Meeting is set for July 17,18 & 19. (Thursday - Saturday)

  

It will be held at the Best Western-Kelly Inn, located at 100 4th Ave. South - St. Cloud, Mn. 

We have a block of rooms reserved at the price of $82.00 night. 

Please book early...  Phone: 320-253-0606

**Rough Outline of Agenda & Speakers**

Thursday:

Registration & Board Meeting begins at 2:00

7:00 pm Crop Report & Social Hour

Friday: 8 am-4 pm

8:00 am Welcome- President, Dan Whitney

Speakers lined up so far for the morning include Stuart Volby from Mann Lake & Dennis vanEngelsdorp, Ph.D University of Maryland

Lunch:

Workshop with Sue Knott (MN Ag. in the Classroom Specialist) with MAITC Program Director, Al Withers

Professor Juliana Rangel-Posada from Texas A&M University

Marla Spivak & crew (2-3 Students) form the University of MN

Wrap up by 4:00 pm

Dinner is not been finalized yet...

Saturday: 8 m-12 pm

Speakers lined up for the morning include

Krisy Allen from The Beez Kneez

Dennis vanEngelsdorp , Juliana Rangel ...(We still need to confirm these 2 for Saturday)

Judy Wu & Vera

 

Jack Hofmann

VP Minnesota Beekeepers Association

NEW MN Grown HONEY logo

We've been collaborating with MN Grown on our new Honey Candy Booth. If not aware, this new booth must move to THE DIRT wing of the Ag/Hort Building this season while the center rotunda will undergo a major change. In making this move, we had to create a brand new booth. Photos to come soon! In exchange for financial sponsorship from the MN Grown organization, we are adding MN Grown signage to our main Honey Booth. A brand new logo has been created and we received the above graphics this morning. We are just delighted!

Interesting Article; a must read!

We've discovered a wonderful article on honey bees which includes a couple of our very own MN Honey Producers Association members. Click here to view.

MHPA Annual Conference Registration

As mentioned in a previous post, our annual conference will be held from July 11th - 13th in Walker, Minnesota at the Northern Lights Casino & Events Center.

Online registration can be completed by clicking on this link.

New Bee Lab

Please visit this link to learn more about this exciting project!

MHPA State Fair Booth 2013

I know it's hard to think about the State Fair when it still looks like Winter outside. Spring will be here soon and the Fair will be just around the corner!

As usual, this time of year, I'm beginning my State Fair preparations. I've sent out employment invitations to those hard working employees we would love to see back. If you or anyone you know might be interested in applying for a position at the booth, we do have a few opportunities available so please contact me. We had some really wonderful volunteer help last season and we invite you all to participate, if you can. 218.370.0283

We enjoyed a successful 2012 at the Honey Booth thanks to all that participated. We would like to invite those that participated to return, as well as extend an invitation to anyone who hasn't participated in the past and would like to begin. We are excited to add new producers and will be happy to sell your honey and bee products.

New Products! We love new products and want to give you an opportunity to have them sold at the State Fair. What a perfect way to test the market. We do need to get any new items that are outside of our typical offerings, approved by the State Fair. This deadline is in June so please contact us right away with any ideas you may have.

Those of you that have gotten used to dropping product off in Watertown know that we've had our house on the market. I'm excited to say that it has sold and we're anticipating a closing the end of May. I've been researching the options for honey and bee product storage and will know more by the July meeting. We're hoping to have honey drop off and storage on the fairgrounds. Once dropped off, heat sensitive items will be then moved to a climate controlled setting to ensure their quality. We're excited about this change and we'll keep you informed.

Hope to see you all at the July meeting!

Happy Spring! (Yes, it will be here soon)


Linda Newman
MHPA State Fair Booth
Manager
linda@scentfromnature.com
218.370.0283

Summer Meeting