The Fayette Tribune, Oak Hill, W.Va.

Local News

July 23, 2012

Beekeepers to meet tonight in Fayetteville

From staff reports

A group of Fayette countians have come together to organize an association of beekeepers, and the group’s second meeting is set for tonight in Fayetteville.

“With the importance of having honeybees in our market, we decided to try to start an association again,” said John Brenemen Jr. of Scarbro, one of the group’s organizers.

A total of 31 beekeepers from around Fayette County attended the organizational meeting of the group, which Brenemen says will exist “to educate and to pollinate.”

“We’re going to be talking about ways to keep the bees alive during the winter, how to check for diseases, possible distribution points for honey, just a wide variety of things to help the local beekeepers,” Brenemen, who has been keeping bees for 18 years, said last week.

The meeting, set for this evening at 6:30 p.m. at Fayetteville Presbyterian Church, is open to anyone who has bees, or who is interested in learning about keeping bees.

“There’s been such a dropoff in the population of bees over the past few years,” Brenemen said, adding that rebuilding a healthy honeybee population is important to everyone.

Beekeepers groups from both Mercer and Nicholas counties have been involved in helping to organize the Fayette County association, as well as state bee inspectors and Brian Sparks, WVU Extension Service’s agricultural agent for Fayette and Nicholas counties.

“We’ve got as much assistance as we need,” Brenemen said. “It looks like it’s gonna be all systems go.”

Anyone interested in more information on the group and its goals is invited to call Brenemen at 304-894-6064.

 

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