Established in 1914, the cooperative extension agency program provides agricultural expertise to farmers of all stripes—and there’s almost certainly an office near you! The post Questions? Your Local County Extension Office Has Answers appeared first on Hobby Farms.
Choosing between a tractor and skid steer is one of the more common decisions you’ll need to make. Here are some key differences to help you choose. The post Tractor Or Skid Steer: What’s Right For Your Farm? appeared first…
Deer are common visitors to landscapes even in urban and suburban areas. Fencing is the most effective way to protect your plants but is not always practical or desirable. Your community may have restrictions on fencing, your budget may not…
Have you ever tried to navigate a long hose through a large garden? It’s not nearly as easy as it sounds. That’s when hose splitters come to the rescue. The post Simplify Garden Watering With Some Hose Splitters appeared first…
I checked the cell raisers → the original cell raiser had 27/30 takes, and the new cell raiser had 18/30 takes. I reached out to our NYC facility to see if they wanted locally reared queens, and they said yes.…
I checked the cell raisers; there are no takes in either of them. A mating queen got into one, and in the other a virgin queen was there and had destroyed the other developing cups. After finishing up with the…
After getting home from the apiary, we did our fifth graft. We made another cell raiser to try to combat the problem of mated queens getting in and destroying our developing queen cells; so we doubled the amount of cups…
We check in on the fourth graft; another mated queen got into our cell raiser! Outside forces were messing with the space the cell raiser was in and a mated queen got in. We went to visit the apiary; we…
Our May 28th (third) graft failed. There was a mated queen inside the cell raiser and she destroyed the developing queen cells. There was only one cell that survived, so we put that one into a mating nuc. At this…
We went and checked on the queens and added 12 more cells from the second graft to the cell raiser. The queens from the first graft weren’t mated yet due to bad weather, so we left them there to check…
