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The Kalamazoo Bee Club serves beekeepers from Lansing to the Lakeshore, Grand Rapids to Indiana.

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Wanted: Honey

honey

If you have honey for sale from hives not treated with antibiotics or chemicals, we have people looking for your honey. Please contact the Kalamazoo Bee Club using the "Contact Us" form.

Keith Lazar Woodenware

Remember you ALWAYS need more hives and equipment. Stock up now and be ready. Check out SPECIAL PRICES here at Keith Lazar Woodenware.

Bee Hive

Coming Events

Lip Balm Class
Calico Rabbit Craft Mall, Plainwell
Caroline Abbott, Instructor
Mon, Sept 20, at 4 pm.

Kalamazoo Bee Club
Wed, Sept 22 at 7 pm
Kalamazoo Nature Center
"Preparing Hives for Winter"
Speaker is Don Lam from Holland

Michigan Beekeepers Association
Fri - Sat, Oct 22-23
Annual Fall Program
Grand Rapids Airport Hilton
4747 28th St SE, Grand Rapids

Kalamazoo Bee Club
November Program
Mead (Honey Wine)
Bell's Brewery
Kalamazoo

Annual Bee School
Saturday, Feb 19, 2011
Kalamazoo Nature Center
Everything you want to know about beekeeping but don't know who to ask

The Coming Events section of the main menu provides more information.

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Beekeeping Supplies

Beekeeping Supplies from Dadant and Sons

Dadant & Sons Inc is a family owned business serving beekeepers since the Civil War. Dadant's local facility is located at 1009 Industrial Blvd, Albion, MI 49224. The phone number is (517) 629-2860. Hours are 8 am - 5 pm, closed from 12 - 1 for lunch. Click here for Dadant's online catalog.

Mott Bee Farm

These are photos of an apiary in Southwest Michigan in the early 1900s. The two gentlemen in the photos are ELMER ELSWORTH MOTT 1864 - 1943 and his son EARL WELTON MOTT 1891 - 1981. They operated the Mott Bee Farm at Glenwood, Michigan, near Dowagiac. Elmer and Earl Mott shipped packages of bees across the country in small wooden boxes.

Click this link for a map showing Glenwood.

These photos were provided by Elmer Mott's great-granddaughter, Brenda Miles of Kalamazoo. Thank you, Brenda, for sharing your family's old photos.

Click a thumbnail image below to view the photo full size. When viewing the full size photo, hover over the top right corner of the photo to advance to the next photo.

Bees and Honey