PennApic's other website is for the

National Honey Bee Day program.

The National Honey Bee Day website include the following beekeeping pages you may find interesting:

* "Getting Started" in Beekeeping

* "Fun Facts" about honey bees

* "Help the Bees" What the public can do

* "What Honey Bee Do". The benefits of honey bees. 

The pages are printable and designed for classroom talks or for individual use. Please feel free to use the information as you see fit.

Items of Interest:

PennApic member "How to" videos:

Simple package installation

Backyard and meadow restoration for honey bees:

http://www.meadowsandmore.com

Pollinators/Pollination:

Bees, Bats, Butterflies and more. A wonderful video!

Pennsylvania native wildflower, plants, & wildlife:

http://www.pawildflower.org

www.dcnr.state.pa.us/forestry/wildplant/native.aspx

For a state by state listing of native plants:

Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center Native Plant Database

NRCS Plant Database

Missouri Botanical Garden's Kemper Center for Home Gardening Plantfinder

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PennApic and National Honey Bee Day

in the News:

Governor's Gardens now "Pollinator Friendly" thanks to PennApic! Read the article. Click Here.

From PennApic Adams County coordinators Jon & Kay Deardorff http://www.eveningsun.com/ci_18534045

From our NHBD sponsor Once Again Nut Butter...... 

http://www.wholefoodsmagazineonline.com/grocery/features/sweet-sales-your-sweetener-aisle

Local newspaper coverage of the PBBA

http://blog.pennlive.com/life/2010/10/beekeeping_generates_buzz_in_m.html

Corbett's Gardens "Pollinator Friendly".

All links will be reviewed and approved prior to placement by the webmaster. Content will also be periodically reviewed and taken down for any reason deemed detrimental to the association, offensive, political or divisive in nature, or inappropriate for a bee industry website.

No commercial Links. For those wishing to advertise or support our efforts, we allow limited advertising on the quarterly members newsletter. You can also further promote your business on a wide scale by becoming a sponsor of the National Honey Bee Day program. Details and sponsor forms can be found on NHBD website.

We list those associations and organizations that are supportive of our efforts. We do not add other links just for the sake of having a long list. We list others that are working with, and along side, our efforts.    

Honey Bee Industry:

National Honey Bee Day Program

                    
Bee Culture Magazine  www.beeculture.com

American Bee Journal   www.americanbeejournal.com

Beekeeping Forums:

For a well moderated site and free to join, consider the Homesteading Today forum for beekeepers. Click here  This site is vast and is tailored not just for beekeepers, but gardening, farming, homesteading, and much more.

Pennsylvania Bee Association Links:

(We are happy to list other supportive and cooperative associations that also link to our website.

Bucks County Beekeepers Association

Monroe County Beekeepers Association

Philadelphia Beekeepers Guild

York County Beekeepers Association
 

Environmental/Agriculture:

Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture

http://www.pasafarming.org

Backyard Fruit Growers

http://www.byfg.org