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Kelly Knapp of Miss Bee Haven, who tends several hives at Frog Hollow, is busy this time of year! She is preparing the bees to weather the winter ahead. She begins by checking the health of each hive. She opens…
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Farm Focus: Winterizing Honey Bees
Posted in Blog Tagged with: bay area honey, bee keeper, bee keepers, bee keeping, beekeeping, honey bees, Miss Bee Haven, Organic Farming, pollinators, wintering honeybees
Farm Focus: Blooms and Bees
On a recent sunny day driving through the orchard on the golf cart with farmer Al, we stopped to admire a new planting of annual flowers that were in bloom. Blooms of a purplish blue hue were flooding the 20…
Posted in Blog Tagged with: annual, bees, Berkeley Urban Bee Lab, bloom, cross pollination, dormancy, grant, perennial, pollinators
Farm Focus: UC Berkeley Urban Bee Lab Part 2
In the past seven years, the Berkeley Urban Bee Lab has helped Frog Hollow seed 20 acres of our farm with over 500 individual plant types. They have successfully grown the population of native bees on our farm from 20…
Posted in Blog Tagged with: bees, biodiverse, pollinator pathway, pollinators, surrounding landscape, urban
Farm Focus: The Berkeley Urban Bee Lab
Our food system is in trouble. Farming has become increasingly more difficult. Many factors are causing farming to become increasingly more difficult including, climate change, an increasing need for bee keepers and bee pollinators, and a drastic decrease in the…
