Helping the honey bee and the beekeeper in their pursuit of a healthy and thriving Hive
The New Hanover County Beekeepers Association was founded in the fall of 2010 by a group of like-minded and passionate beekeepers wanting to centralize our resources and expertise and share the knowledge and experience with others.
As an association, we aim to educate the community on importance of honey bees and serve the Wilmington-area through swarm removal and more. View our community resources.
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The NHCBA meets on the 3rd Tuesday of each month at the Halyburton Park, 4099 Sth 17th Street Wilmington NC., unless otherwise announced.
Recent Blog Posts
October 2025 Meeting
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
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
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
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
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)...
December 2024 Meeting
December 2024 Meeting We can't believe we already had our last meeting of 2024 and are now in 2025! For this December meeting we enjoyed a catered dinner form Burrito Shack, and had a raffle for equipment that was donated to the NHCBA by Brawes Bee company BRAWES Bee...