SWAINSBORO, Ga. (WRDW / WAGT) – East Georgia State College will be having its second Honey Extraction Party on September 9.
The event will take place in the hall outside the college auditorium in the Luck Flanders Gambrell building from 2:30 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Members of the college beekeeping club, students, faculty, staff and community members are welcome to attend. Guests will learn about honey, how it is made by bees and collected by beekeepers.
The club plans to extract 70 pounds of honey at the event. During the first extraction in November 2019, around 22 pounds of honey was harvested.
East Georgia State College operates an apiary to educate people about bees and other pollinators, their importance to the environment and how to protect them and their habitats.
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