Abbott Farms - Sustainable Agriculture

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...

Today I just couldn't wait any longer to see how the bees were doing after their move. It is a sooner than I would usually check, but I...

I realized suddenly that here it is the first day of summer. This is the turning point in the beekeeping season. After this point, the...

Isn't this a nice sign? A friend gave it to me a few weeks ago. I thought it would be good to put by my hives by the greenhouse. I...

Our June field day was Saturday, June 10, 2017. It was a warm (actually hot) day. We checked the horizontal and vertical hives by my...

I added a new article to the website entitled, "Desperate Times require desperate measures". It is my opinion on the current beekeeping...

On Friday May 13, 2017 our order of 20 Carniolan queens from Oliveraz Apiaries arrived from Hawaii. Unfortunately, of the 20, three were...