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Please join us on May 20th for our General Membership Meeting.

Pre-meeting Question & Answer session will start at 6:00 PM.

At 7:00 pm the club meeting will begin.  Special speaker will be Eleanor Schumacher.  Eleanor will share her observations, experience and beekeeping advice.  She has been inspecting beehives as the Illinois Department of Agriculture Southwestern Region Apiary Inspector for 10 seasons. She graduated with a Master’s Degree in Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences from University of Illinois last spring, and currently enjoys additional occupation as Resource Conservationist for the Madison County Soil & Water Conservation District. Eleanor operates 40 hives within a 10 mile radius of her and her husband’s Prairie Farms Dairy Farm, and in her free time enjoys writing articles for the Illinois State Beekeepers “Bulletin”, playing guitar, and volunteering as an Illinois Master Naturalist.

Members and Visitors are welcome