How To Catch A Swarm Of Bees

           Spring is hotly pursuing us and we are on the edge of swarm season, so I thought I would dig out a draft from 2020 detailing a hive of bees we caught. Likely it was a swarm trying to split from one of our other hives, but the principles to catching a hive are the same.

       Swarming is how bees start new hives. They are uncannily calm when they are swarming and looking for a new home. They leave their former hive home and wait in this huddled ball, protecting the queen, while they wait for the scout bees to find a suitable place to live. 

      

Maid-N-Meadows: Spring 2021 Update

           

      Daffodils, the symbol of spring, are finally blooming on the farm. It has been many years since the last time they bloomed in March. Usually they are fully bloomed in the third or fourth week of February. Not so this year! We had a snow that will remain in our memory for many years to come.