The Carolina Foothills Beekeepers will welcome Sam Comfort as a guest speaker at its monthly meeting Tuesday, June 7 at 6:30 p.m.

Comfort will speak about natural, treatment-free ways to keep bees, organic and sustainable beekeeping methods and the use of top bar hives. The meeting will be held at the Pine Crest Inn Conference Center.

Sam Comfort is well known nationally as one of the thought leaders surrounding treatment-free beekeeping – the practice of keeping bees without the use of chemicals or other substances in the hive. Comfort is the largest commercial top bar hive beekeeper on the east coast as the owner of Anarchy Apiaries in the Hudson Valley of New York and southeastern Florida. As a crusader for sustainable beekeeping methods, Comfort fittingly shares a birthday with Johnny Appleseed and has written songs about bees, which he happily sings while playing the ukulele.

The Carolina Foothills Beekeepers, the Polk County Chapter of the N.C. State Beekeepers Association, is a non-profit group open to first-time, novice and experienced beekeepers, as well as non-beekeepers that are interested in honeybees or beekeeping. The group is focused on fostering information and equipment sharing among area beekeepers, improving beekeeping methods and best practices, educating the general public regarding honeybees including schools and community groups, encouraging and assisting people who may wish to enter into the field of beekeeping and, most importantly, the healthy proliferation of honeybees in our area.

For more information or to attend Comfort’s presentation, contact Carl Caudle at 864-457-6288 or via email at polkbeekeepers@gmail.com.

– article submitted by Carl Caudle