Farm Happenings

Packages Delivered

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.

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...

What’s Buzzin’ at 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 process.

Spring Readiness

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 ready and tidy for...

Backyard Beekeeper

Mar 17, 2013 | From The BeeYard

This year, we decided to take the beekeeping course. Very informative and lots of new beekeepers out there! Shout out to Adam Fuller president of the ECBA and beekeeping guru in our area.