Abbott Farms - Sustainable Agriculture

I just discovered last week that the Google Maps for our area (in some locations) have been updated to include images taken last last...

What a difference a week makes. I returned from a week long vacation and took a peek at the hives on a clear, sunny but breezy almost 50...

So, is this hive alive or not? I have been working on the assumption it is because of the bees flying in and out of the top entrance. ...

We have had a tremendous amount of snow in the past week. At one point we had almost two feet on the ground. Today the sun shone and it...

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...