Click here for a pdf copy of the agenda: PBBA Agenda August 2026
PEMI BAKER BEEKEEPERS’ ASSN MEETING Agenda
Tuesday, September 8, 2026, at 7pm
Held at the Ashland Booster Club at 99 Main Street
Welcome and call meeting to order
- Any new and guests members – please introduce themselves
Business Meeting
- Minutes
- Treasurer’s Report
Upcoming Events
- Growing a pollinator garden, September 21, 5:30pm
- Put Your Garden To Bed, September 30, 6pm
- Campton Old Home Day, September 26, 10-2pm (see attached pdf)
- NHBA Fall Meeting, October 24, 9-3
- https://www.nhbeekeepers.org/event/2026-fall-meeting-with-theresa-martin
- PBBA to host fall meeting in 2028
How to use a refractometer: Bring your honey to test!
Weighing your hives – Do you have enough honey stores?
Bee Talk
- What’s happening in September
- Egg laying slows
- Nectar sources continue to diminish
- Mite population usually peaks in August or September
- Robbing!
- Inspections will be ending
- Check honey stores
- Full size colony should have 70-90 lbs of honey by start of October
- more than one full deep
- If feeding switch to a 2:1 ratio sugar syrup
- Stop feeding pollen at the end of September
- Combine weak colonies if needed
- Remove drone comb
- Full size colony should have 70-90 lbs of honey by start of October
Close of Meeting