Our Officers & Advisory Board
President
Tara Darby
Tara Darby co-founded the BHABC in 2020 as the first vice president. She has been keeping bees in the Black Hills since 2019. She now helps the club by managing media coordination. She is a Certified Wildlife Biologist for USDA. She is a pet mom, loves gardening, keeps bee, oil paints, and enjoys all things outdoors. Tara is also the current teacher of the basic and advanced beekeeping courses at WDT.
Vice President
Erica Proefrock
Bio coming soon
Treasurer
Frank DeMilia
Is becoming more and more of a mentor in the Deadwood area. Yay Frank!
Secretary
Brandy Anderson
Bio coming soon.
Media
Tara Darby
Tara Darby co-founded the BHABC in 2020 as the first vice president. She has been keeping bees in the Black Hills since 2019. She now helps the club by managing media coordination. She is a Certified Wildlife Biologist for USDA. She is a pet mom, loves gardening, keeps bee, oil paints, and enjoys all things outdoors. Tara is also the current teacher of the basic and advanced beekeeping courses at WDT.
Advisory Board Member
Julie Dean-Pelikan
Julie Dean-Pelikan: Beekeeper and Master Gardener, Certified Pollinator Steward.
A long time beekeeper and organic gardener. Julie has combined her passion for beekeeping and gardening to promote and create pollinator habitats understanding the synergy of relationships with native plants. A healthy pollinator habitat is a key component to a thriving garden, orchard prairie as well as for the maintenance of our forests and conservation lands.
Julie has taken on the challenge of maintaining and designing environments for pollinators on her own small farm while educating others in the community to begin their journey to create healthy, diverse habitats for insects and wildlife.
Advisory Board Member
Dorothy Vincent
Is a wealth of knowledge in many areas. A beekeeper and Master Gardener.
Advisory Board Member
Available - Advisory Board Member
Interested in having a say about all things bee club? Ask for a nomination!