Abbott Farms - Sustainable Agriculture

Friday January 26, 2018 was a mild, Michigan day. It got up to 50 degrees and there was sunshine. It was breezy, but I figured the bees...

After two weeks of bitterly cold temperatures we finally have a break. I knew the bees would take advantage of above freezing temps and...

I hadn't checked my hives since October, because there is nothing I can do at this point, and they are not handy to just drop in and look...

On Friday Oct. 13th 2017 we had a beautiful day to prepare the hives for winter. John Krueger showed up to help me wrap the hives and...

In the picture above you can see the newspaper between the two hives. As of yesterday, Oct. 3, 2017, they still had not combined and...

Since the field day I have been over to check on what I am referring to as the "double hive", or the one we combined. I am calling it...

Here is a nice picture of the queen in the vertical hive we combined with the horizontal hive. Thanks to Kelly Bolthouse for taking the...

Today I checked the hives. It has been about three weeks since the last field day and the goldenrod flow is in full swing. The two...

We had a nice day for a field day. Although there were a few dark clouds that floated by, they didn't drop anything and it was in the...

We had a beautiful day to have our first field day at our new location. It was sunny and mid 70's. We had a really new beekeeper join...