Here's everything that's happening despite of our fight to reinstate federal funding...

In spite of ALL that is happening, bee season has already kicked off. Cyclical seasonal agriculture is like that, it keeps on trucking.

This year production schedule in the Southeast looks drastically different. Hurricane impacts have many ripples, and without our federal funding dispersal we're in a bit of a "recovery" state instead of our usual "production" mode. If you are on our queen list for early Spring expect to hear from us soon about what we'll have available and when.

The good news is we'll likely be returning to the Northeast for Spring a little early. Northeast for Spring looks like a rousing round of package production and 12 weeks of queen, honey & wax production in the Northeast.

Need bees or know someone who does? Package pre-orders are live here.

What's up for this summer?

This Summer & Fall in the Northeast, we’ll host our second cohort of BIPOC Beekeepers who will receive bees, mentorship and equipment to start or grow apiaries in the Northeast region.  We'll be teaming up with our friends at Woven Roots Farm and Island Bee Project to host a BIPOC Bee Day.

We’ll host a mini-Queen School workshop with guest speakers from the Adaptive Bee Breeders Alliance network. This Queen School weekend will include Drone Congregation Area mapping, Instrumental Insemination instruction and Queen Production methods.

We'll talk genetics, queen rearing practices and get hands on experience catching queens.

For folks who are bee curious, we'll open the apiary for hands on experience inside the hives. We'll expand our candle making workshops to include new collaborations too.

I (Ang) will work on an important climate justice project I can’t wait to tell you more about.  And be part of an advisors cohort for one of my favorite farms.  

This Summer we’ll inseminate our first home made TKB queens.

In addition, we'll be researching how our infrastructure can grow in Western MA so our Network can grow and increase honey & wax production.  

It’s all emerging, exciting work that aligns with our mission to raise Varroa resistant queen bees, conduct climate research and facilitate skill shares.  

You can support it here.  

You can read more about it as it unfolds right here on our blog.