by BBA | May 10, 2013 | From The BeeYard
We selected the colors and picked up two new hives sets from Adam Fuller of A&Z Apiaries. Here’s a picture of the boxes prepped. We also purchased two “used” hives from a retired beekeeper in Thompson. The hives were painted psychodelic rainbow...
by BBA | May 9, 2013 | Farm Happenings, From The BeeYard
Bee packages. These are stacked and trucked in from Georgia. 3 pound package = approx. 10,000 bees. One of the girls riding shotgun on the way home from picking up her package.
by BBA | Apr 29, 2013 | From The BeeYard
So, when we went to order our hives, we visited one of CT Apiary Gurus, Adam Fuller from AZ Apiaries in Hampton, CT. After drilling Adam for newbee beekeeping info, we also picked up two assembled hives from him unpainted. Since our friends have hives in Rhode...
by BBA | Apr 16, 2013 | Farm Happenings, From The BeeYard
Day One:So we decided to complicate our lives once again to add something quite exciting on the farm. Honey Bees! We met with a local beekeeper tonite to get our first hives… Bees are on order and due to arrive mid-May. We’ll be posting about the start up...
by BBA | Apr 1, 2013 | Farm Happenings
So you ask, where the heck is Spring? We’re asking the same thing! No matter what the weather-happening is, basically its April… and that means, planning planning planning. Here on the farm, we’re starting our spring cleaning… getting the barn...
