Hope you are all well and your bees are now all tucked in for the winter.  Wishing you a joyous holiday season and a healthy and happy New Year in 2022!

As you probably know, New York State now requires all beekeepers to register with the Department of Agriculture and Markets.  The registration is supposed to happen this month, and they now have a link where you can go to register.  If you go to the link below and then scroll down to the bottom of the page, you will see a button that says “register” and that will take you to the form.  You must add one Apiary Yard by clicking “Add a new Apiary Yard.”  You can then just fill in the number of hives and the county as not all fields are mandatory.  

If you already registered in 2021, you don’t have to do so again.  Once registered, you will get an email confirming it.

Here is the link:  https://agriculture.ny.gov/plant-industry/honey-bee-health