Upcoming Events
Join us for a weekend in Seaside Oregon!
Our annual conference and fundraiser is an opportunity to take a break from the field work and connect with your community of beekeepers from all over the region. All experience levels and backgrounds are welcome!
This event takes place over Halloween weekend - costumes are encouraged!
We are busy working bee-hind the scenes to make this an event to remember. You can view our tentative schedule by clicking the button below. Guest speakers and topics will be announced as the are confirmed.
Guest Speakers
Dedication. Expertise. Passion.
This list will be updated as more speakers are confirmed!
Keynote Speaker
Dr. Chelsea Cook, PHD
Chelsea Cook is currently an assistant professor at Marquette University in Milwaukee Wisconsin, where she has established a honey bee research lab focused on studying the social, physiological, and ecological mechanisms of collective behavior in honey bees. Previously, she was a National Institutes of Health postdoctoral fellow at Arizona State University, where she studied how individual learning behavior scales to shape foraging behavior in honey bees. She earned her PhD at the University of Colorado Boulder where she studied collective thermoregulation in honey bees. She also has experience as an entrepreneur, starting a hardware company that develops cold-storage tools for beekeepers and farmers. A major part of her mission as a professor is to make science accessible to all, so she has created courses in beekeeping and environmental biology that she teaches in prisons and addiction recovery facilities.
Keynote Speaker
Bob Binnie
Bob Binnie, along with his wife Suzette, own Blue Ridge Honey Co. in Lakemont, Georgia, operating 2000 colonies along with a sizable honey packing operation. Bob has been involved in commercial beekeeping for nearly four decades.
Being involved in the beekeeping arena has always been important to Bob. He has been a three-term president of The Northeast Georgia Mountain Beekeepers Association in Clarkesville, Georgia, a two-term president of The Macon County Beekeepers Association in Franklin, North Carolina, and a two-term president of The Georgia State Beekeepers Association.
In 2018, Bob began his YouTube channel which has garnered over 63K subscribers allowing him to share his everyday tips and tricks in the beeyard.
Guest Speaker
Flora Molyneaux
Flora Molyneaux is a professional beekeeper, organic farmer, herbalist, and educator based in the Pacific Northwest. She co-owns Wild Everlasting Farm, a 30-acre farm focused on the relationship between people, plants, and pollinators in our shared landscape. Flora manages 40 hives and produces over 1,800 pounds of bioregional multifloral honey annually. She runs the Sun Queen School of Apiary Arts, teaching bioregional beekeeping to students of all ages. Including two school apiary programs, an apiary at the Food for Lane County Youth Farm.
Flora has served nearly a decade with the Lane County Beekeepers Association as past President and current Educational Coordinator, and is the OSBA Regional Representative for South Willamette Valley. She recently won the 2025 North American Pollinator Protection Campaign Farmer of the year for the United States.
Guest Speaker
Carolyn Breece
Carolyn is a research associate at OSU's Honey Bee lab. Recognition for her work includes Communications Award: Educational Video Recording (Regional winner) National Association of County Agricultural Agents, Search for Excellence Award OSU Extension Association, Outstanding Faculty Research Assistant, and Research Assistant Award.
Carolyn's outreach and responsibilities with the lab include the creation of a Spanish master beekeeping course, educational videos, apiary manager, instructor for university courses and community beekeepers, and researcher for many of the issues that honeybees face.
Most of all, Carolyn loves helping beekeepers successfully manage their colonies so that they can enjoy all that their bees have to offer.