Category: Pollinators

Sarah Callan (another Gardens educator) and I recently installed our new bee packages and brought our surviving hives home for…

Over the last couple of years, our hort team began seeing black, disfigured masses at the centers of echinacea flowers….

I always imagine what our new Learning Apiary must look like to visitors—walking up to it for the first time,…

Did you know that Labor Day is when beekeepers begin extracting their fall honey? Let’s start from the beginning with…

Before I begin waxing rhapsodic on goldenrod (Solidago spp.), let’s get one myth buried: goldenrod is not the culprit behind…

Hi there–as this summer’s beekeeping interns, we thought we’d give you a bird’s eye (or bees’ eye) view of our…

Honey is close to our hearts here at CMBG, given our sixteen resident hives, new Learning Apiary, and our Certified…

I awoke this morning listening to the cacophony of birdsong. The spruce edges were filled with rapid twitching movement as…