Peter Schumacher, a member of the Mount Diablo Beekeepers Association, will be the featured speaker at the May 13 meeting of the Livermore Amador Valley Garden Club.
Schumacher became a beekeeper in 2008 when a swarm of honey bees settled in his backyard while looking for a new home. With help from the Mount Diablo Beekeepers Association and other online resources, he set up his first hive for the swarm to inhabit. Schumacher now keeps 15 hives and harvests between 150 and 350 pounds of honey a year.
In his talk, which is open to the public, Schumacher will cover the basics for anyone who may be considering beekeeping, as well as how everyone can help bees thrive.
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With a $1,000 grant from the National Garden Club Plant America program, the Livermore-Amador Valley Garden Club recently replanted roses in Hansen Park.
The club came together Saturday, March 20, to replace 38 rose bushes. A group of 24 Garden Club members worked alongside three Livermore Landscape Maintenance employees to get the roses planted.
Wearing masks, the members worked in groups of two or three members from the same âsocial bubble.â Many of the members had received COVID-19 vaccines prior to the event.
âIt went extremely well,â said Dana Boyd, Club co-chair. âWe got all 38 rose bushes planted.â
The group was excited to have a little bit of socializing and see each other again even behind the masks, according to Boyd.
The next meeting of the Livermore Amador Valley Garden Club will feature C. Colston Burrell, acclaimed lecturer, garden designer, author and photographer.
The next meeting of the Livermore Amador Valley Garden Club will host Lorene Edwards Forkner, gardener, artist, designer, writer, editor and educator, speaking on the topic, "Seeing Color in Your Garden Nature s Tool for Attention."