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• 2025 GBA Spring JamborBEE

  • When
    26 Apr 2025
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    10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    The Barn at Acorn Ridge, 610 Old Toomsboro Rd, Toomsboro, GA

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  Plan to join us at our first GBA JamborBEE! 

  Our GBA JamborBEE will take place on April 26, 2025 at the Barn at Acorn Ridge in Toomsboro, Georgia, right in the middle of the state. This is a GBA members only event, so if you know someone who'd like to come but isn't a GBA member, they can certainly join now so they be a part of this! We will have so much fun being together. Some of the activities planned include:

  • A silent auction with lots of stuff to bid on
  • A people's choice honey contest - you can both enter your honey and judge all the honey that you taste
  • Observe a bee beard on at least one of our committee members
  • Play Bee Trivia
  • Play outdoor giant games - like Jenga, Connect Four, and CornHole
  • Lunch paid for by GBA at food trucks
  • Dress-a-beekeeper relay race
  • A smoker lighting contest
  • Time to talk and get to know your beekeeping friends, old and new, from around the state
  • Lots of photo ops

  Closer to the event, we will provide a list of nearby motels in case you want to come to Toomsboro the night before, but it is within reasonable driving distance for most people in Georgia.

  Admission is $10 for adult GBA members and if you bring your kids (under 12 years old) they can come for free. If you are married to a non-GBA member, they can come - just register them as your guest. Everyone's admission includes a food truck lunch.

  We're going to have a great time. Can't wait to see you there.

  Linda Tillman and the JamborBEE Committee

  Gail Dean, Emily Heath, Mary Lacksen, Dan Long, Olivia Menard, Jason Palmer

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

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• 2025 Fall Conference Sponsor & Vendor Registration

  • Start
    11 Sep 2025
  •  
    1:00 PM
  • End
    13 Sep 2025
  •  
    5:00 PM
  • Location
    2535 Lanier Tech Dr, Gainesville, GA 30507 Ramsey Conference Center

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  Thank you for your interest in participating as a vendor or sponsor at the GBA Fall Conference in Gainesville, Georgia this September. Hundreds of beekeepers will be in attendance and will be grateful for the opportunity to get to know your products.
  

  Set up is Thursday, September 11 beginning at 1:00. While folks will be there for testing on the 11th, the conference proper starts Friday morning, September 12 and runs until Saturday afternoon at 5 on September 13.

  If you have any questions about sponsorship or vendor participation, please contact Julia Mahood at President@gabeekeeping.com.

  This registration page is only for sponsors and vendors at the GBA Fall Conference, not for conference attendees.

  
  

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• 2025 GBA Fall Conference

  • Start
    12 Sep 2025
  • End
    13 Sep 2025
  • Location
    2535 Lanier Tech Dr, Gainesville, GA 30507 Ramsey Conference Center

  Plan to join us at our GBA Fall Conference 2025 in Gainesville, Georgia!

  The conference will take place at Ramsey Conference Center 2535 Lanier Tech Dr, Gainesville, GA 30507.

  The GBA Fall Meeting is full of educational opportunities with great speakers, fun times making beekeeping connections, and an informative dinner.   

  The meeting starts on Thursday evening, September 11^th, with the GBA Board meeting. Friday night there will be a special dinner event for all registrants who sign up to attend for additional cost.

  The general fall meeting will take place all day on Friday, September 12^th, beginning with the local club Presidents Breakfast and end Saturday, September 13^th.

  The UGA Certified, Journeyman and Master Beekeeper testing will be on Thursday September 11 in the Ramsey Conference Center. The Welsh Honey Judge training begins on Thursday and continues on Friday. To participate in testing you must register to attend the GBA Fall Conference and select the testing level as an add-on. Read more about the UGA testing here.

  We are looking forward to a great meeting and to seeing all of you there!  

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