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2025 Honey Harvest The NHCBA beehives at Halyburton Park have been busy bees this year! The bees produced enough honey for us to host not 1, but 2 Honey Harvests this year at Halyburton Park! The NHCBA in cooperation with the staff at Halyburton and the City of...

Fire in the Pines Festival The NHCBA was happy to bee featured at the Fire In the Pines festival at Halyburton Park 10/4/25.   Our team of volunteers greeted the community guests inside the educational center building. Our theme was Follow the Yellow Brick Road, so...

October 2025 Meeting Our October meeting included an excellent presentation by member, William Bost, on preparing your hives for Winter. It was a very informative and educational experience for beekeepers of all levels. Thank you William for this valuable information!...

September 2025 Meeting Our September meeting was presented by Jessy O’Keefe owner of Seaside Honeybees! Jessy shared her honey bee journey and the success of her business in our area! Great job Jessy, thank you for joining us and educating us on Seaside Honeybees!

April 2025 Meeting Our guest speaker for our April meeting was Anthony Snider and his wife, Shanhong. Dr Snider is a retired UNCW professor who taught Beekeeping to the students and worked to create the UNCW Beekeepers Club. The club with the help of Dr Snider worked...

March 2025 Meeting Dwayne Furmidge was our guest speaker. Dwayne presented a PowerPoint presentation on our new equipment checkout system. Dwayne created a new system for using our educational materials and our extraction equipment. We are thankful for his efforts in...

February 2025 Meeting Our guest speaker was Alex Warcola of Marcela Honey Farms. He is a pollination contractor and had so much knowledge to share! He and his wife run a 10,000 hive pollination service, providing bees from California (almonds) to Maine (blueberries)...