Rachael Bonoan, Kelsey Graham and Natalie Kerr are Tufts graduate students researching bees in the Boston area! They (and we) are excited to take us on a tour of their apiaries and introduce us to the research they are conducting, including investigations on honey bee nutrition and brood development, bumble bee population dynamics and how […]
For more information, see their full announcement. NATIONAL HONEY BEE DAY 2014 and 3RD YEAR ANNIVERSARY of FOLLOW THE HONEY!
Anita is a Biologist and MA State Bee Inspector who runs between 30-50 treatment free hives in my apiary. Four years ago she started out as a backyard beekeeper full of enthusiasm and trepidation, with only a single hive on her rooftop. Her passion and quest for beekeeping knowledge led her on an adventure across America that would […]
Free & welcome to all! Refreshments provided courtesy of Follow the Honey! After a summer of hands-on apiary excursions we return to the meeting table, this time at one of our favorite community hubs! On the agenda for this gathering is to formalize our status, mission and vision as Boston Area Beekeepers Association, nominate officers for a one-year term (this could […]
Harvard Book Store and Follow the Honey welcome honey bee expert and founder of The Best Bees Company, Noah Wilson-Rich for a discussion of his book The Bee: A Natural History.The event is co-sponsored by The Harvard Bookstore & Follow the Honey, and books are 20% off. Follow the Honey will also host a honey tasting at the […]
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 […]