Barnaby Farm is approximately 180 acres. One hundred wooded acres, the rest is pasture for cattle and hay production. Purchased in 1964 when my father retired from the Navy. In June of 2008, Johnny, Jared and I moved into the old farm house and in 2009 my parents placed the farm under a conservation easement with the Virginia Outdoors Foundation. This farm can never be subdivided and Johnny and I have accepted the responsibility of being its caretakers.
Monday, May 30, 2011
Hive Split Failure
Saturday, Johnny and I attempted to take bees from an existing hive and give them a new queen. I just checked them and all of the bees have left for their own hive. Failure! I'm certain that we tried to locate the newly queened bees too close to the origin hive. Will have to try again. Hopefully we can get this to work so we won't lose our queen.
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