Bringing Bees!

Kate installed two hives on the farm today! Blue Star Equiculture now has approximately 8,000 bees in the hives to create honey, propolis, wax, royal jelly, more bees, and to aid pollination. We have two queen bees, each of which is very capable of laying around 1,500 eggs a day!

Below are pictures of Kate setting up the hives (she even brought food for our hungry busy bees!)

Watch a video of the transfer! Those bees sure do love their queen ;-)

Below is a picture captured today of Pamela grooming Bud before an evening carriage stroll (Pete and Dakota were out for a ride too.) Tla, Dakota and Madison are in the background.

In other farm news, the mid-paddock has flags on it's barbed-wire fence (you can see a few of the streaming strands in the picture above,) as well as part of the current cow-paddock. The 'pricker bushes' around the white fencing has been removed, and the grassy knolls have been raked of leaves (hopefully to start our compost pile!)

Thank you to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Community Service Program. They completed the above mentioned, as well as muck/strip our horse stalls (and rinse/refill water buckets) along with Omar and myself.

If anyone knows Steve Bakas, ask him if he got my e-mail :-)