Beekeepers, start your smokers! Enter the smoker contest at the Urban Agriculture Fair for a chance to win a shiny new hive tool and bragging rights. Object of the contest; keep your smoker going longer than anyone else. That's it. You're given five strike-anywhere matches, a full sheet of the Jamaica Plain Gazette, and 10 […]
Celebrate the arrival of fall with cider, honey, and a book signing on Wed. Sept. 17th. In partnership with the Museum of Science there is going to be a bee-related event at the Bantam Cider Tap Room in Union Square, Somerville.Local bee expert and author Noah Wilson-Rich, PhD, and Alex Lu, PhD, will talk about the 20,000 […]
Panel Discussion - Free for Mass Audubon Members $5 for non-members (of Mass Audubon) Registration link: http://www.massaudubon.org/get-outdoors/program-catalog#program:sanctuary=21:keywords=hive:program_code=35423 One of the greatest challenges to beekeeping in Massachusetts is getting colonies through the winter. Last year Eastern MA beekeepers lost over 50% of their colonies over the winter months; the bees (and beekeepers) need all the help they […]
Hive opening by Ken Warchol on preparing your hives for winter months. For more information, contact them at (508) 865-6706.
Dr. Tom Rinderer, Team Leader at Baton Rouge USDA Bee LabTopics: Managing Russian Bees and Building your bees for Resistance Dr. Tom Seeley,Cornell UniversityTopics: Wild Bees in the Forest that are surviving and Why The Beehive as a Factory and what really goes on inside the hive To buy lunch for the event, […]
The October 2014 meeting of BABA will be held at the Hoffman Lab at Harvard. Our guest speaker will be Heather Mattila, a Knafel Assistant Professor of Natural Sciences and Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences and Wellesley College. She'll be talking about how honey bee queen's extremely unusual mating helps to produce colonies with active work forces […]
A natural gas pipeline is in the works out in the North Quabbin region of MA, where Follow The Honey's bee farm abides in protected forest, next to certified organic dairy Chase Hill Farm. Most folks in Boston area, which relies on clean water from this protected region of the state, are unaware of this Kinder-Morgen […]
FALL CLASS OFFERINGS AT ABRAZOS PRESS:Gain new skills, or just try something out of the ordinary to gather your acorns for the winter! 1. THE LAYERED PRINT: 6 alternate Wednesday evenings Starting : Oct.1 2. PRINT,WAX, POKE & STITCH: Dimensional Prints: 4 sequential Tuesday Evenings: Starting : Oct. 21. 3. IMPROVISATIONAL WOODCUT: 6 alternate […]
Enjoy an informal meeting with Author Dr. Noah Wilson-Rich. Complimentary light refreshments will be served and limited copies of his book are for sale on site so be the first to get yours. This book takes an incomparable look at this astounding diversity, blending an engaging narrative with practical, hands-on discussions of such topics as […]
Interested in organic farming, backyard gardening, or food justice? Don’t miss the NOFA/Mass Winter Conference on January 10 at Worcester State University.Featuring 70 workshops on: beekeeping (Breeding Honeybees with Bonita & Dan Conlon of Warm Colors Apiary and Beekeeping for Beginners with Sanne Kure-Jensen), vegetable production, health, livestock, skill building and lots more. More information […]
We will cover the basic techniques of "organic" beekeeping, including materials and equipment, beehive structure, the life cycle of bees, hive development and dynamics, seasonal apiary work, honey and hive products, common pests and diseases, and organic hive management "organic" hive management (with an emphasis on treatment-free and ecologically-friendly management techniques). We will taste local and […]
Local Bee Research Update - Tufts UniversityRachael Bonoan, Kelsey Graham and Natalie Kerr are Tufts graduate students researching bees in the Boston area. We are thrilled that, after touring us around their field research sites last summer, these scientists have offered to share the findings of their recent research with us! Kelsey and Rachael will […]