Coweta Beekeepers Association

Welcome to the Coweta Beekeepers Association Website

Come on in and visit....

Celebrating our 16^th year!

2014, A year of learning thru workshops...

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. More information about our beekeeping class below.

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

_________________________________________________________________

Beekeeping Education Video of the Month

The Sustainable Apiary by Mike Palmer

_________________________________________________________________

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.

______________________________________________________________

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) 770-830-1943

______________________________________________________________

Why buy Pure & Raw Local honey?

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

Honey Laundering

_______________________________________________________________

The Honey Launderers: Uncovering the Largest Food Fraud in U.S. History

Magnus von Buddenbrock and Stefanie Giesselbach arrived in Chicago in 2006 full of hope. He was 30, she was 28, and they had both won their first overseas assignments at ALW Food Group, a family-owned food-trading company based in Hamburg. Von Buddenbrock had joined ALW—the initials stand for its founder, Alfred L. Wolff—four years earlier after earning a degree in marketing and international business, and he was expert in the buying and selling of gum arabic, a key ingredient in candy and soft drinks. Giesselbach had started at ALW as a 19-year-old apprentice. She worked hard, learned quickly, spoke five languages, and within three years had become the company’s first female product manager. Her specialty was honey.

Click here to continue reading

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.

by Andrew Schneider | Aug 15, 2011

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.

Click here to continue reading....

______________________________________________________________

Beekeeping Supplies

Beekeeping Supplies and Nucleus Hives (nucs)

______________________________________________________________

Events Calendar

03/05/2014 08:00

23rd Annual Beekeeping Institute Registration

23rd Annual Beekeeping Institute Registration OPENS-http://www.ent.uga.edu/bees/young-harris/

03/10/2014 19:00