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Beekeepers

Middlesex County Beekeepers Association members like to share our love of beekeeping in Massachusetts, and beeyond!

“One of the most knowledgeable Beekeeping Clubs in the Country.”

Noah Wilson-Rich, PhD

Meetings, Beginner’s Classes, Workshops, Hive Openings, Mentors, Bee Removals, and more!

Members enjoy the following benefits:

  • access to the club’s library of videos and books on beekeeping
  • access to our members-only forum
  • the opportunity to learn from established beekeepers
  • a subscription to the club’s newsletter, The Middlesex Bee

MCBA members range from beekeeping hobbyists with one or two backyard hives to those who run beekeeping businesses with several hundred hives.

Meetings and Events

Fall & Winter

 

During the Fall & Winter, we meet on the Fourth Friday of the month indoors to talk about bees. We have demonstrations, and invited speakers.

We usually meet at the:

First Religious Society Hall

27 School Street

Carlisle, Massachusetts, United States

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Spring & Summer

 

During the Spring & Summer we meet on the Second Saturday of the month outdoors at a member’s apiary for workshops, hive openings, and to talk about bees.

 

For a list of upcoming meeting dates, visit our Club Calendar.

  • ...we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax; thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest things, which are sweetness and light.

    - Jonathan Swift

  • The life of the bee is like a magic well, the more you draw from it, the more there is to draw.

    - Karl von Frisch

  • That buzzing noise means something. Now, the only reason for making a buzzing noise that I know of is because you are... a bee! And the only reason for being a bee is to make honey. And the only reason for making honey is so I can eat it.

    - Winnie the Pooh

  • There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.

    - Henry David Thoreau

  • Gracious words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and healing to the bones.

    - Proverbs 16:24

  • Not a single bee has ever sent you an invoice. And that is part of the problem – because most of what comes to us from nature is free, because it is not invoiced, because it is not priced, because it is not traded in markets, we tend to ignore it.

    - United Nations report, The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity

  • Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.

    - John Muir

  • A work of arte; and yet no arte of man, Can worke, this worke, these little creatures can

    - Geffrey Whitney, 1586

  • The men of experiment are like the ant; they only collect and use. But the bee…gathers its materials from the flowers of the garden and of the field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own.

    - Leonardo da Vinci

  • The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.

    - Jacques Yves Cousteau