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• Passover

  • Start
    Saturday, April 12, 2025
  • End
    Sunday, April 20, 2025

  Passover: 

  This holiday begins at sundown on Saturday, April 12, 2025 and ends at nightfall on Sunday, April 20, 2025 (The first two nights of Passover is when people usually have Seders. )

  
  

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• SCBA at Friedman's "Get your Garden on"

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    Saturday, April 12, 2025

  SCBA Community Outreach at

  Friedman's Santa Rosa

  Get your Garden On Event

  Saturday April 12, 2025

  Community out reach event sharing information on honeybees, native bees, and how we can help the bees at a public event

  
  

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• SCBA at Friedman's "Get your Garden on"

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    Sunday, April 13, 2025

  SCBA Community Outreach at

  Friedman's Petaluma

  Get your Garden On Event

  Sunday April 13, 2025

  Community out reach event sharing information on honeybees, native bees, and how we can help the bees at a public event

  
  

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• SCBA General Meeting

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    Monday, April 14, 2025
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    6:00 PM - 8:30 PM

  April General Meeting: 

  April 14, 2025 6:00 - 8:30 pm

  Druid Hall: 1011 College Ave.  Santa Rosa

  Guest Speaker: Mea McNeil

  Mea McNeil is a journalist and Master Beekeeper and will be sharing with us the "Facts behind the Fiction" of her book "Bee Club" 

  In Bee Club, McNeil tells the story of a disparate group attracted to the importance and intrigue of a bunch of insects. They find themselves bound together like kin to these undomesticated creatures – from the curious hobbyists to the entomologists delving into the mysteries of Apis down to the veins in their wings. Some keep bees to eke out a livelihood, like an elderly Finnish woman; some to heal, like the vet from a VA beekeeping program to treat PTSD; some for the spirit, like the woman who extols the beneficial vibrations of a buzzing colony; some for adventure and a few bucks, like the trio of friends that cram into a vintage Airstream to count frames of migratory bees for almond pollination. And then there is the bee-phobic teenager, with nowhere else to go.

                  There, in the Northern California countryside, the club is a microcosm of the joys and anguish of the wider beekeeping world. The beekeepers confront the reality of a continuing loss of bees. They face pests, pathogens and poor forage – and their own irreconcilable convictions. Whatever the opinions of those who tend their boxes, the bees are independent; they mingle their genes and their problems. The narrative follows, at bee’s-eye level, the lineage of one queen bee with a genetic advantage.
                  Here is an engrossing, witty and accurately-detailed story, as much about bees as their hovering people.

  M.E.A. McNeil (called Mea) is a journalist, MFA and Master Beekeeper living in a strawbale house on a small Northern California organic farm. She is of Finnish extraction, as is a character in the book, and one of her books of Finnish mythology was awarded the Aesop Accolade. Her over 100 long-form non-fiction articles delving into the bee world over two decades have provided a depth of education that frames her current novel, Bee Club.

  
  

  
  

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• SCBA at Sonoma County Children's Museum

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    Friday, April 18, 2025

  Sonoma County Beekeepers Association

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  Sonoma County Children's Museum

  3rd Friday of every month, SCBA Educators will be at the Children's Museum with educational material and activities for the kids and adults alike.

  Date: Friday April 18, 2025

  Time: TBD

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• Easter

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    Sunday, April 20, 2025

  
  

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• SCBA Pollinator Brunch

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    Sunday, June 22, 2025

  SAVE THE DATE! JUNE 22, 2025

  SCBA Pollinator Brunch

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• Independance Day

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    Friday, July 04, 2025

  
  

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• Labor Day

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    Monday, September 01, 2025

  
  

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• Rosh Hashanah

  • Start
    Monday, September 22, 2025
  • End
    Wednesday, September 24, 2025

  Rosh Hashanah: Jewish Holiday

  The eve of this holiday is Monday, September 22, 2025  (Starts at sunset) It lasts for two days. Until eve of 9/24. 

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• Yom Kippur

  • Start
    Wednesday, October 01, 2025
  • End
    Thursday, October 02, 2025

  Yom Kippur: Jewish Holiday

  The eve of this holiday is Wednesday, October 1, 2025 and it lasts until sunset of Thursday, October 2, 2025. Most important holiday of the year. 

  
  

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• Thanksgiving

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    Thursday, November 27, 2025

  
  

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