LACBA welcomes the 2025 American Honey Princess

Emilia Burnham, the 2025 American Honey Princess, will visit LA fair in Pomona on May 15-18.

She will be speaking to fairgoers about the importance of honeybees to California agriculture and how honeybee pollination diversifies our diet. She will also share information about how honey is nature’s remedy.

Emilia is the daughter of John and Pavlina Burnham of Murrieta, California. She is a master’s student at the University of California, Riverside, where she is majoring in entomology. Her studies focus on the honeybee microscopic fungal parasite Nosema ceranae. Emilia is a fourth generation beekeeper and has a strong interest in honeybee products and their benefits to mankind.

As the 2025 American Honey Princess, Emilia serves as a national spokesperson on behalf of the American Beekeeping Federation, a trade organization representing beekeepers and honey producers throughout the United States. The American Honey Queen and Princess speak and promote in venues nationwide, and, as such Princess Emilia will travel throughout the United States in 2025. Prior to being selected as the American Honey Princess, Emilia served as the 2024 California Honey Queen. In this role, she promoted the honey industry in a wide range of venues, including educational presentations and community events.

USDA help with lost hives

Apparently USDA farm services agency has a program called ELAP and it's for emergency assistance for livestock. We understand that it's about $125 per hive they give you, but you have to be registered with the county as a beekeeper and you have to have kept monthly records to prove that you had the hives and lost the hives

Website updates

We added a few items to our website

  • Updated the new 2025 board

  • Added link for Honey Extractor lending program

  • Added Latest upcoming speaker

  • Cleaned up and removed many old posts and cleaned up some bad expired links

  • Added info about Roundup to warn about it’s use

  • Updated the order of golden hive recipients to put the latest recipients first.

  • Cleaned up pages and removed much of historical posts where there were worries of possible copyright violations

  • Added upcoming speaker - LACBA Speaker for November 6, 2023 - Albert Robertson

  • Added upcoming speaker - LACBA Speaker for October 2, 2023 - Dr. Ruben Alarcón

  • Added upcoming speaker - LACBA Speaker for September 11, 2023 - Tom Seeley

  • Added upcoming speaker - LACBA Speaker for August 7, 2023 - Grace Kunkel and Stetcyn Maldonado

  • Added upcoming speaker - LACBA Speaker for July 10, 2023 - George Davidson

  • Added upcoming speaker - LACBA Speaker for June 5, 2023 - Priya Chakrabarti Basu

    “Understanding the various facets of bee nutrition”

  • Added LA fair signups

  • Add Bee Informed survey to the home page

  • Add 2023 Honey queen details to the homepage

POSTPONED - Beekeeping 101 Class#3 on Saturday April 13th.

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SATURDAY’S CLASS WILL BE POSTPONED DUE TO WEATHER

Due to cool temperatures and a 90% chance of rain in the morning, the class that was scheduled for Saturday 4-13-2024 will be postponed until Saturday 4-20-2024. An email with class details for the new date was sent out to registered class participants on 4-11-2024. All current participants registers for the class will have their registration transferred to the new date.

We apologize for any inconvenience and look forward to seeing you on Saturday April 20th.

POSTPONED DUE TO WEATHER - new date will be Saturday April 20th