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Buncombe County Beekeepers Chapter Information
2007-2008 Officers
 Janet Shisler, President
Janet started with the club in 1995. As a hobbyist, she needs the honeybees to help pollinate her 5 acre tract of U-Pick blueberries at her Cloud 9 Farm. As a retired school teacher, she loves the educational activities to share and to be around this nature-loving crowd.
 Steve Langefeld, Vice-President
Steve is a new certified beekeeper enjoying the fascinating and sometimes frustrating world of beekeeping. He is managing his hives "organically" and hopes to expand his bee yard in the coming year. He is employed as a Physicians Assistant with a local surgical group.
 David Cox, Immediate Past President
David has been a hobbyist beekeeper for six years. He has served as Director and President for the BCBC. He is a property manager and Realtor for J.D. Jackson Associates. His other hobbies are kayaking, hiking, photography and working in his shop.
 Nancy Worsham, Treasurer
Nancy is a third generation hobbyist beekeeper. She works as a truss designer (roof and floor) for Stock Building Supply. She enjoys photography, sailing, remodeling her old house and maintaining her yard. She started beekeeping 2-1/2 years ago after taking a short course from Chris Mathis and getting her first hive from Edd Buchanan. She currently has two hives that are still alive (so far) and thinks that humans could learn a lot from watching bees cooperate.
 Amanda Stone
Buncombe County extension agent
Amanda is our second year Buncombe County extension agent. She is a first year beekeeper and is serving as secretary in her first year.
 DeForrest Hipps, Director
DeForrest is a software development manager living in the mountains near Asheville, NC with his wife and 4 children. He is an avid beekeeper, gardener, mineral collector, and Boy Scout committee chairman. DeForrest also flies high-powered rockets and manages the WNCBees.org website for the Buncombe County Beekeepers Chapter.
 Bert Hardwick, Director
Bert Hardwick, a maintenance assistant at a retirement
community, has been bee keeping since 2000. His other interests include photography and volunteering at the Cradle of Forestry as the vegetable gardener. He currently has two hives.
 Satchel Loftis, Director
Satchel has been keeping bees for a couple of seasons with his son, Miles. Besides harvesting honey and working with top bar hives, he's interested in less common aspects of bees, such as honey bee evolution and their place in modern agriculture.
 Darrell Steenwyk, Director
Darrell is a first year beekeeper who started with a package of bees and a new hive and for his second hive, captured a colony by cutting it out from a wall of a house. He lives in Arden with his wife and two children.
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