Abbott Farms - Sustainable Agriculture

Wow! We finally got a nice day for a field day. It was sunny and actually warm. That made it a good day to check the bees. We started...

I was waiting for the shed to go before making one last split of the season from the long hive. We haven't split that hive yet, so I...

Today we finished the transition of the Kalamazoo Bee Club's apiary to its new location. The shed that has been in the gravel pit was...

Our June field day was scheduled for June 13, 2015. It was a guess all week prior as to how the weather would shape up. It turned out...

I went out to the apiray to just check on things and to add supers if need be, since in my own hives the bees are already filling supers...

This is a picture of one of the long hives my son, Tim made for one of the beekeepers who come to our field days. He had enough extra...

We had a really nice day, seventy degrees and sunny. We started with the new package. It only had three very small clusters of bees on...

We went over to do a quick check on the package we installed on 4-15-15. It was a little strange, there were bee droppings all over the...

Wednesday evening April 15, 2015 we installed one package from AWS Bees around 7:30 pm. There were around 10-12 people present to watch....

Tuesday April 14, 2015 the weather was warm - mid 60's and not too windy. We were able to get over and check our overwintered hives. ...