Members and Friends, please join us on November 17 for our Membership Meeting and educational session. This will be an IN PERSON and ZOOM meeting at the University of Missouri Extension Center at 260 Brown Road in St. Peters. The club meeting will begin at 7:00.  You can come early – 6:00 PM –  for Q&A with experienced beekeepers. Snacks are welcome!

You can attend in person or Zoom into the meeting.  If you will be joining us by Zoom, register in advance for this webinar:

https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_o7XJF4udSI-vtdoSU8Vp2Q

Eleanor Schumacher has been working in agriculture and conservation since 2010.  She has served as an Apiary Inspector at the Illinois Department of Agriculture for 15 seasons. Fascinated by the correlation between pollinator habitat quality and bee health, she pursued studies in Pollination Ecology and received a Master’s Degree in Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences from University of Illinois in 2018. As the state coordinator of Project Wingspan for the Pollinator Partnership, she helps almost 40 teams of volunteers collect native wildflower seeds at over 50 prairies all around Illinois.  Eleanor is an all-around bee enthusiast, operating forty honey bee hives within a ten mile radius of her and her husband’s Prairie Farms Dairy Farm. In her free time, Eleanor enjoys writing articles and giving presentations, playing guitar, managing her own four acres of pollinator habitat, and volunteering as an Illinois Master Naturalist.