June 10th Monthly Meeting - Historical Skep Beekeeping
2nd Floor Randall Room 7:30 PM
Our speaker for this meeting will be Charles Kennard, who has practiced basket-weaving as an avocation for 20 years, using local materials and a wide variety of techniques. Charles, who lives in San Anselmo, will share with us how skeps are made, and talk about the history of beekeeping using skeps.

July 8th Monthly Meeting – San Francisco’s Urban Forest & Bees
Randall Museum Theatre 7:30 PM
Our speaker for this meeting will be Doug Wildman, Program Director, the Friends of the Urban Forest. FUF is a non-profit that promotes a larger, healthier urban forest as part of our urban ecosystem through community planting, maintenance, education and advocacy. Doug will share with us information about the trees of our urban forest that provide valuable forage for our honey bees.

August 12th Monthly Meeting - TBD
2nd Floor Randall Room 7:30 PM
Our speaker for this meeting will be Dr. Dewey Caron, recently retired from his teaching and research post as professor of entomology and applied ecology/extension entomologist at the University of Delaware. He is the author of Honey Bee Biology and Beekeeping, and currently is a Visiting Scientist at Oregon State University.

August 17th- 20th – Western Apiculture Society Annual Conference
Dry Creek Best Western Inn, 198 Dry Creek Road, Healdsburg, CA 95448
The WAS is a non-profit, educational, beekeeping organization founded in 1978 for the benefit and enjoyment of all beekeepers in western North America. We are lucky to have the 2009 Annual Conference in our backyard this year. Information on the conference program and speakers, registration and accommodations can be viewed at the WAS website.

September 9th Monthly Meeting - TBD
2nd Floor Randall Room 7:30 PM

September 12th Annual Club Picnic
Stern Grove, Pine Lake Picnic Area 11:00 AM – 3:00 PM
Please mark your calendar and plan to attend our annual club picnic. The club will supply hamburgers, vegi-burgers, hot dogs, plates, napkins and utensils. Bring something to drink and to share (side dish or dessert). This is a “family” event – so bring your family, however you define it (husband, wife, partner, companion, kids, housemates). From the Stern Grove parking lot (enter from Vale at Crestlake), our picnic area is toward the end of the field to the left. There is nearby access to public bathrooms. Because the weather could be sunny or foggy, be prepared for both and wear layered clothing. Public Transportation: If you will be taking public transportation, Muni Metro lines K & M stop at St. Francis Circle, and Muni buses 23 & 28 stop at Sloat and 19th Avenue.