Dr. Stahlman will be presenting some incredible information about honeys and different varieties, highlighted by some honey tasting of 10 different varieties at the beginning of the meeting, and followed by some insight into honey harvesting and usage of all things from the hive – including wax products! You will not want to miss it!
Dr. Stahlman writes:
I was born into a commercial beekeeping family, I still remember my grandpa got me a smoker for Christmas. I was encouraged to go to college and I have had two careers -- bees and teaching. I took over the business full time in 1993 moving bees from Ohio to Georgia and back. I learned to graft queens by the time I became a teenager. One high point of my beekeeping life was knowing Vick Thompson and Walter Rothenbuler at THE Ohio State University in the early 1980's. I was manager of The Ohio States Buckeye Gardens on the West Campus. I developed two lines of queens that no longer exist (Buckeye Belle & Buckeye Reb). I sold Stahlman Apiaries in 2015 and moved to Raleigh. There are still individuals who contact me about queens, but now I just have fun with bees and working with the new beekeepers from Wake County Beekeepers Assoc. I have written four books and during the 1990's and early 2000's I wrote articles for Bee Culture Magazine. I currently write a weekly beekeeping newsletter.