by BBA | Jun 14, 2013 | Farm Happenings, From The BeeYard
The Moss hive doing well.. A nectar flow is happening.. getting the honey supers on. A sweet sweet happening in the Beeyard.
by BBA | May 20, 2013 | From The BeeYard
Aaargh… due to weather in Georgia… where the girls are coming from… we’ve been delayed in receiving our packages. I guess thats a good thing since we’ve had such horrible rainy and cold weather here in CT. The packages will now be...
by BBA | May 18, 2013 | Farm Happenings, From The BeeYard
Alisa is standing next to The Sunflower hive during late May. Girls are busy bringing in pollen. Hive inspection reveals several queen cells. This hive needed to create a queen. Sometimes that...
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...