Welcome to our new website!

Bees are some of the most fantastic creatures on earth. Not only do they provide us with honey, but also pollinate vast amounts of crops throughout the world. Did you know that about 1/3 of the food you eat depends on pollination, and bees are responsible for about 80% of that work load? Honeybees are the only pollinator that can be domestically kept on a large scale for this purpose. Millions of hives are transported across the country each year to different farms and orchards. Honeybees play a very important role in our ecosystem and economy.


Meet Beekeepers

Make status updates to your friends and more with posts, images, videos and links.

Talk Bees

Start a forum topic or comment on someone elses. Share ideas and get community feedback.

Blog About Bees

Create a blog in the community to share your thoughts and ideas. Post articles, images and more.

Join Bee Groups

Find common interests and meet new friends in the groups. Join the ones that appeal to what you like.
   

Mission Statement

The specific purposes for which this corporation is organized are to develop an institution to teach and disseminate educational materials relating to the important role of Honeybees and other pollinating insects in maintaining a stable and healthy ecosystem through publications, demonstration, lectures, and otherwise.

Other specific purposes for which this corporation is organized are, but not limited to, to encourage better beekeeping methods among beekeepers, to promote cooperation among its members, to aid in a solution of the problems of the beekeeping industry, to maintain friendly and helpful relations with those forces which are working to better the welfare of the beekeeping interests, to develop markets for apiary products, to foster a spirit of cooperation with all other agricultural interests that come in close contact with the beekeeping industry, to foster an interest in beekeeping among youth, to sponsor promotions involving beekeeping, to sponsor educational scholarships for youth within Orange County, and to engage in such other activities as will tend to improve beekeeping conditions around the world.

Come Join Us!

Or, simply support the cause.


Upcoming
Open Meetings

Tuesday, April 2nd, 2013
Tuesday, May 7th, 2013

Our meetings are the first Tuesday of each month, except during the OC Fair and January.

Please join us in the Silo Building
at the OC Fairgrounds.
Start Time: 7:00 PM

88 Fair Drive, Costa Mesa, CA.
Click here for a map.

2013 Package Bees,
Nucs, and Queens
–Order Here–

Members

About The OC Beekeepers Assn.

The OCBA was formed in the 1970′s. Our membership is currently comprised of mostly small-scale beekeepers who are dedicated to keeping bees in the urban environment. The roots here in OC are agricultural, and we haven’t forgotten that.

 

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