<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><p class="first-para" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our monthly SDC Beekeepers Meeting will be held today, August 16th starting at 6:30 p.m.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">This month we are excited to have Sante Fe’s own Steve Wall of Buckin’ Bees join us. Steve will share his process for mite testing/treatment as well as fall hive management (preparation for winter). Steve has been beekeeping since 2000 and maintains about 100 Lanstroth hives throughout the Santa Fe area and is a “fixture” at the Santa Fe Farmers Market each Saturday during the season.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Our in person meeting will be held a the Unitarian Universalist Church, located at 107 W Barcelona Rd. here in Santa Fe. After announcements and brief lecture period we will travel a short distance to Cindy & Dean Fry’s apiary where Steve Wall will demonstrate how to perform a sugar roll test for varroa mites. <b class="">Please bring a veil/protective gear for the demonstration.</b></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">For those unable to attend in person, please join us via Zoom for the lecture portion:</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83707672407?pwd=UzNPbnI0ZU9SSjZ4T3ZWaUhxdjdBQT09" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(208, 94, 11);" class="">https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83707672407?pwd=UzNPbnI0ZU9SSjZ4T3ZWaUhxdjdBQT09</a></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Meeting ID: 837 0767 2407</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Passcode: SDC</p></body></html>