The Beautiful Rock Meadow Conservation Area is filled with the perfect mix of plants, water and sunshine for the bees

Beekeeper Phillip Thomas standing with some of his hives at Rock Meadows

Inspecting our bees is something that is done every 2 weeks in the warmer weather to see how the hive is doing.

A honey bee gathering pollen on a buttonbush

Bees are flying, lots of typical spring and summer activity – the bees are very active, working hard

A healthy hive with bees covering the frames

In the fall, we group the hives together to help them keep warm, and then add some insulation for the winter

Our custom made honey harvesting process in action

A look at the Rock Meadow hives…lots of heat signatures suggesting healthy hives – Spring is coming!

Even better IR image of two hives in Rock Meadow last fall…those hives are very healthy, see all the heat?

A swarm of bees up in a tree that we recovered last year. When it gets warm, the bees will swarm. It’s a natural process that bees go through when the hive gets too large, half of the hive leaves with the queen to find a new home – while the remaining half create a new queen

Our spring swarm trap – caught a nice swarm last year and they ended up in the Rock Meadow apiary