We do indeed have our fair share of wacky weather here in the Land of Enchantment. The warming days inspire the buds to blossom and the bees are gaining momenting rearing brood…..and then we get thundersnow, and bitter cold nights descend again as the Rockies begin to melt bringing their crisp mountain air into the [...]

Spring can be a tricky time of year, which is all the more reason to get out and mingle with other farmers before you’re too busy in your garden and your bees are swarming all over We actually had thunder snow the other evening, which was tres cool to watch. Mark and I were returning [...]

When I first decided to try to focus on bees as a career path, I didn’t anticipate ever owning or running a business, nonetheless a farm! Eight years ago, when I convinced my partner Mark to come back to New Mexico with me, we didn’t anticipate the momentum with which we would be careening around [...]

As we passed winter solstice and the days began to lengthen, the bees begin to shake off their winter slumbering. They will begin to clean out their lifeless sisters that have gathered on the bottom and they will also be scratching into their honey stores, some of which may be crystallized. In our region, March [...]

Keynote Speaker Mace Vaughn from the Xerxes Society will present info on promoting pollinators. More info at: http://www.farmtotablenm.org/fts/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/2013-conference-program-detail.pdf http://www.farmtotablenm.org/fts/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/2013-conference-program-detail.pdf

They do go fast! We are rather conservative in our bookings for starter nuclei in that we don’t want to overly stress our bees, ourselves and customers So- We are closing the reservations list for starter nuclei orders. Once we get started with the season we can better determine if our bees can share more splits. [...]

“Tiny Heroes: Celebrating the Beauty of Our Pollinators”, an exhibit conceived and organized by local Santa Fe artist, Kathryn Alexander, will be debuting at the WAS-Santa Fe, NM conference in October 2013. Call for entries to interested artists enraptured with pollinators. *see flyer for details on event and contact info for submitting entries*  

  Colony Consciousness: Working Together to Preserve, Protect & Promote Our Pollinators is the theme of this year’s W.A.S. Conference and it is coming to the historic and world famous La Fonda on the Plaza hotel in Santa Fe, New Mexico from October 16th-19th, 2013.   For more info, visit http://ucanr.edu/sites/was2/. As  President of  WAS for [...]

We have yet to meet her in person, but we sure do like her already! Kat Nesbit of Bliss Honeybee (and John Jacob of Old Sol)  have put together a most wonderful conference occuring this late July in Forest Grove, Oregon. NM and CO beekeepers will be respresenting the high deserts  and alpine meadows of [...]

The NM Beekeepers Association will be holding their annual meeting this Friday and Saturday in Albuquerque. Keynote speaker: Tammy Horn. For more info visit www.nmbeekeepers.org