Meeting April 23, 2026

TOPICS: Paul Kelly – Single/Double brood chamber management.

Speaker – Paul Kelly – Research and Apiary Manager – Honey Bee Research Centre at the University of Guelph

Paul has managed the Honey Bee Research Centre at the University of Guelph since 1987. His primary role at the centre is to manage honeybee colonies for research and teaching purposes. He provides research support for hive health science, training for students and beekeepers, coordinates and teaches beekeeping courses and conducts facility tours for the general public.

Paul received the Eastern Apiculture Society, Roger A. Morse Extension Award in 2017 and was inducted into the Ontario Agriculture Hall of Fame in 2022.

Paul’s interests include bee breeding, beekeeping tool design and manufacture, and beekeeping video production medicinal use of hive products, and hive management techniques. Paul and the HBRC team have produced 77 beekeeping videos for the HBRC YouTube channel. They have been translated into 12 languages and have been viewed approximately 30 million times. He makes and sells Bee Belts, the tool belt for beekeepers.

Beekeepers Corner: A representative from Flow Hive will be doing a demo of the new hive lifter.

Meeting is at 7:00pm at the  Dorchester Library 2123 Dorchester Rd, Dorchester, ON