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About Us: The Beekeeper's Guild

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The Beekeeper's Guild of Santa Barbara

As one of the largest supporting networks for beekeepers in the Tri-Counties, the Santa Barbara Beekeeper's Guild partners with researchers, industry experts, exhibitors and your fellow beekeepers to bring you all of the latest in best practices, bee health and how you can become a backyard beekeeper.


Membership in the Beekeeper's Guild supports Santa Barbara Tri-Counties bees and beekeepers. Since 2007, The Guild has coordinated with over 20 schools and local organizations to provide support, education, and resources for young and emerging beekeepers around the state.  The Guild is a voice of beekeepers in Santa Barbara area, working closely with local beekeepers and policymakers to promote safe and engaging ways in which we can educate our communities about the dangers of pesticides and the importance of planting bee friendly gardens, the first and best step to keep our ecosystems thriving. 


Your support and membership of the Beekeeper's Guild helps support its activities, including:

  • visiting local schools and organizations to teach beekeeping and the safety.
  • printed materials to promote honey bees, bee friendly plants and bee health.
  • bringing in local citizen expertise to teach ways to battle honey bee pests.
  • monthly beekeeping meetups where we bring in nationally renowned speakers, authors and dozens of vendors to educate and serve hundreds of beekeepers.
  • active part of working with state and city wide guidelines to promote the safety and care of the bees.
  • annual fall harvest festival that brings beekeepers together from all around the state.


The Beekeeper's Guild of Santa Barbara supports beekeepers and beekeeping. You membership helps support the Guild.


Become a member today!

Meet the board of directors

Laurie Rasmussen

Jay Offringa Hall

Jay Offringa Hall

Laurie Rasmussen, President, Board of Directors, Beekeeper's Guild of Santa Barbara.

Laurie began beekeeping in 2016.
A constant learner, Laurie has achieved the level of Apprentice in the California Master Beekeeper Program. She serves as president of the Beekeeper’s Guild of Santa Barbara and gives presentations to area schools, bringing live bees into the classroom. Observing her colonies throughout the cycle of the year brings new perspectives and gives her even greater appreciation for these buzzy little miracles of our natural world.

Jay Offringa Hall

Jay Offringa Hall

Jay Offringa Hall

Jay Offringa Hall, Vice President, Board of Directors, Beekeeper's Guild of Santa Barbara.

Jay first discovered the joy of bees while watching them pollinate his garden and the avocado orchard in which he lives, soon realizing they should have a nearby place to call home. Jay has spent the last decade exploring emerging and alternative streams of revenue in the digital economy, and now leverages that expertise in web development and fundraising as the VP of the Beekeeper's Guild of Santa Barbara. Outside of the office, you can find Jay spending time with his partner Ben, taking care of their hives and traveling the world in search of new and tasty varieties of honey.

Pamela Wilkinson

Jay Offringa Hall

Pamela Wilkinson

Pam Wilkinson, Treasurer, Board of Directors, Beekeeper's Guild of Santa Barbara.

Pam is an organic gardener who was introduced to beekeeping when her then-12-year-old son wanted a hive. After he went to college, a swarm took up residence in the old hives and bees have been in the yard ever since, bringing us joy and honey.

Ann Dusenberry

Juanita Collins

Pamela Wilkinson

Ann Dusenberry, Secretary, Board of Directors, Beekeeper's Guild of Santa Barbara.

In 2015 Ann began replacing her lawn with a food forest, and by 2017 she got her first beehive. Ann’s background is in theatre arts, including a successful career in Los Angeles. Retiring from Hollywood, but never the stage, Ann moved to Santa Barbara in 1992 to raise her family. Ann is forever grateful to the honeybee for all they share, blessed to live along the coast here in Santa Barbara, and so fortunate to be an active member of BGSB and to serve on the this board.

Barbara Hughes

Juanita Collins

Juanita Collins

Barbara Hughes, Director, Board of Directors, Beekeeper's Guild of Santa Barbara.

Barbara began her love affair with bees in 2010 when she saw an advertisement for a beekeeping class offered by a local beekeeper and thought it sounded interesting. Little did she know how it would change her perceptions of the natural world. Now she gets to share that love with kids throughout Santa Barbara teaching them about the importance and magic of bees.

Juanita Collins

Juanita Collins

Juanita Collins

Juanita Collins, Director, Board of Directors, Beekeeper's Guild of Santa Barbara.

Juanita has lived in Santa Barbara for over twenty-five years and has kept 

bees for the last seven. She has had up to ten hives which produced over 

twenty gallons of honey in 2019. After taking Apprentice and Journeyman 

classes online from the University of Montana, she has received her 

Journeyman certificate for beekeeping. The next challenge she looks forward 

to is to study with the University of Montana once again to work towards her 

Masters in Beekeeping.

Tami Jauchen

Tami Jauchen

Tami Jauchen

Tami Jauchen, Education Director, Board of Directors, Beekeeper's Guild of Santa Barbara.

Tami was looking forward to beekeeping when she retired but Mother Nature had another plan! When a swarm arrived in her yard in 2010, she figured she better get busy and learn what it took to take care of them. A decade later she is stIll enjoying learning which has led her on the path to becoming one of California's Master Beekeepers. Tami serves as the Education Director on the Board of Directors for the Beekeeper's Guild of Santa Barbara and she looks forward to bringing a diverse group of speakers to share their varied knowledge and experience with our local "beeks."

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