Raw & Unfiltered Honey - Coweta, Georgia

Welcome to the Coweta Beekeepers Association Website

Come on in and visit.... 

Celebrating our 14th year!

Our members offer for sale Pure, Raw and Unfiltered Coweta County honey

 

Thinking of becoming a beekeeper?

If you live in or near Newnan, Georgia or Coweta County, Georgia, and you’re interested in becoming a beekeeper, we can help you learn about this very old and interesting endeavor.

 

If your group is looking for a speaker please contact us.  We are always looking for opportunities to explain the importance and fascination of honeybees and honey.

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If you find a swarm of honeybees, please call one of our members for help......

 

Bobby Torbush gently brushing a swarm from a tree.

Notice he has no veil or gloves on.

 

Honeybees reproduce by swarming. If a swarm can be recovered and established in a beehive, it will have a better chance of survival and the potential to become a strong honey producing colony.


Contact any of the following people if you locate a honeybee swarm.

Earl McElreath    678-633-4859 All Coweta Co, eastern Carroll Co, northern Heard Co.

Max Smith         678-457-5594 Fulton County

Tom Gray          678-517-9001  Fayette County

Richard Littleton  Carroll County

Chuck Mills        678-602-5922

Merry Cagle       678-602-5922

Charles Olsen     404-808-6977

Dan Scales         678-232-4793

Steve Page        770-683-2465 Eastern Coweta County, Thomas Crossroads

Larry Jacobson   770-463-1529 Northeastern Coweta County Cannongate Tyrone area

Leaton Lewis      770-502-3600 (H)    754-234-1909 (C)

Bobby Torbush   770-927-0077

Bo Lysak            678-644-5916

Gary Cooke        678-410-2087

Clint Ozier         334-444-5732 Newnan, Poplar Road area      

Craig Exner        770-254-8740

Jerry Edwards    678-333-6889

Ed Mellon           770-969-2142  South Fulton and NE Coweta counties

Pure, Fresh, raw and unfiltered, local honey is available for purchase from our members.

More information on where to purchase local honey from our members.

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Help, I have honeybees living in my wall!!

Contact  

Jerry Edwards    678-333-6889  jedwarga@bellsouth.net

Bobby Torbush   770-927-0077

Richard Littleton (Carroll County)

 

More information about removing honeybees from buildings

Woman relocates bees to more loving home

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Why buy Pure & Raw Local honey? 

Honey laundering conceals country of origin to avoid tariffs and sneak contaminated honey into the USA.

Honey Laundering

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Asian Honey, Banned in Europe, Is Flooding U.S. Grocery Shelves

FDA has the laws needed to keep adulterated honey off store shelves but does little, honey industry says.

 

A third or more of all the honey consumed in the U.S. is likely to have been smuggled in from China and may be tainted with illegal antibiotics and heavy metals.  A Food Safety News investigation has documented that millions of pounds of honey banned as unsafe in dozens of countries are being imported and sold here in record quantities. 
 

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Beekeeping Supplies

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Events Calendar

05/10/2012 08:00

21th Annual Young Harris Beekeeping Institute

Registration starts March 5, 2012.  This always sells out, register early..... May 10-12, 2012 The UGA honey bee program offers the annual Beekeeping Institute in cooperation with Young Harris College. Since 1992 the Institute has represented the single most comprehensive opportunity in...
05/14/2012 19:00

Coweta Beekeepers Association Monthly Meeting

The Coweta Beekeepers meet each month at the Asa M. Powell Senior Expo Center, 197 Temple Ave., Newnan, Georgia. The meeting is on May 14, 2012 at 7:00 PM.  Subject: Covered dish and swap meet   More information.
06/11/2012 19:00

Coweta Beekeepers Association Monthly Meeting

The Coweta Beekeepers meet each month at the Asa M. Powell Senior Expo Center, 197 Temple Ave., Newnan, Georgia. The meeting is on June 11, 2012 at 7:00 PM. Speaker:  Keith Feilder, Master Beekeeper Subject: Local Nectar Sources   More information.

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