Ellis Apiary, Sustainable Beekeepers

05/25/2020

This is one of the new Apimaye hives we are trying out this year. So far, so good!

05/24/2020

Hive inspection. Nothing but happy bees. 🐝🐝🐝

04/23/2020

How a striped, winged, six-legged love machine sparked “the longest marketing campaign in history.”

04/17/2020

Bee package installation today!

04/12/2020

Happy Easter! Trying out something new this year. We're adding 2 Apimay hives to our beeyard in the hopes it better handles New England winter weather. Just finished assembling this one.

02/13/2020

Not only are they food sources for bees, they are potent herbal medicine.

Dandelions are pollinators’ best friends: lay off the w**d killer and the lawnmower, ecologist urges Aside from being extremely useful to humans, dandelions and other common lawn “w**ds” are invaluable to bees and other pollinators. You can help globally struggling pollinators tremendously sim...

02/07/2020

Beautiful work, ladies!

Have you ever seen honeycomb as beautiful as this?

01/31/2020

Study Finds U.S. Farmland Now 50 Times More Toxic to Bees Than Before GMOs Were First Introducedby Nick Meyer | October 28, 2019        In 1995, the first insecticide-producing GMO crop (corn) was officially by approved by the United States Environmental Protection Agency.Now, nearly 25 years l...

01/20/2020

They're leading the way to save bees from deadly pesticides...

01/20/2020

01/15/2020

This needs to be banned here in the US too!

The European Commission decided on Monday not to renew approval for a pesticide ...

01/11/2020

From the article:

"One significant concern is that pesticides are having a negative impact on bee populations. Another concern is they may negatively affect the health of the workers on farms. Also, as time moves forward, pests increase their ability to resist pesticides with continued exposure. This new method will hopefully fight pests more naturally, without the negative impact of pesticides."

The use of pesticides has proven to affect the environment in a negative way. Many farmers are now returning to ancient environmentally friendly approaches concerning pest control. One method is known as the Biological Pest Control Method. This method involves the planting of flower strips that…