Johnson County Beekeepers Assn – B3: Building Better Bees
| Johnson County Beekeepers Assn | B3: Building Better Bees for the Future | September 26, 2026 | Truman Habitat for Humanity’s Hiram Young School | Cathy Misko or Paul Sopher | Cathy 660-656-3485
Paul 816-598-6241 |
Email Cathy Misko | Registration |
- Sep 26 2026
- 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
- $100.00
- 501 N. Dodgion St., Independence, MO 64050
- https://www.trumanhabitat.org/hiram-young-school
- 816-461-6551
Speakers
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Cory StevensStevens Bee CompanyCory Stevens comes to us from his 27 acre farm in Bloomfield, MO, which he manages for wildlife and pollinator habitat. Cory and his wife Jaime own Stevens Bee Company where they select for mite resistant VSH stock. Cory is a Past President of Missouri State Beekeepers Association, and earned a MS in entomology from University of Nebraska – Lincoln. He was certified as a Master Beekeeper by EAS in 2013, and trained by Sue Cobey in 2014 to instrumentally inseminate queen bees. He slips bees into random conversation with strangers, and annoys his wife by constantly talking about bees.
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Cathy MiskoPresident, JoCoMO Beekeepers AssnCathy Misko, Centerview, MO., Cathy is a “Mama” of 8 and for 37 years, she is known as the “Bee Lady”, ever since a swarm of bee “chose” her in 1989, when she was gardening with a baby strapped onto her back! Cathy is President of the Johnson County MO Beekeepers Assn; Founder, Heartland Beekeeping Partnership; Past President, Midwestern Beekeepers (Kansas City area); served as Missouri State Beekeepers Assn. first Legislative Liaison; and is in her 5th year as founding editor of the Apiary Buzz newsletter.
Cathy has a passion for education and has launched various clubs’ Beekeeping Youth Scholarship Programs, conducts beekeeping workshops including to veterans for the national Camp Valor Outdoors, assisted with passage of two Missouri beekeeping laws including consultation for friendly beekeeping city codes, and chairs the JCMBA Youth Scholarship Program.
While maintaining a focus on genetics, she practices “as natural as possible” management with a commitment to IPM, stewards 50 colonies, and has been “chemical free” for 17 years. Cathy is an Eastern Apicultural Society (EAS) Certified Master Beekeeper, EAS Life Member, and enjoys digging in dirt, mentoring, sharing sweetness from the Dancing Bees Ranch, and loving on her family, especially her physician hubby of 46 years and their 14 grands!
