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Mushrooms!
We’re looking forward to growing some white and blue oyster mushrooms with our friend Marjorie. She is so persistent and has put such good energy into making this happen. We’re looking forward to many good meals enriched with delicious oyster mushrooms. Thank you, Marjorie!
Kwamen Falls
Thank you, Guy and Viv, for this beautiful picture of Kwamen Falls near Black Sand Beach.
Making Soap Again!
(Please click on one of the above photos to see them all magnified!) We finally broke down and started making soap again. It’s so exciting to mix the batches and pour them into the molds, with the smell of the essential oils making the kitchen smell like an herbal paradise. Once the soap is cured, and…
Robins Bay Bee Club’s First Hive Donation
Former Peace Corps Volunteer Ann Bruce, Farmer-to-Farmer volunteer Tom Hebert and Yerba Buena Farm collaborated to start this natural beekeeping club in 2012. The training apiary was made possible through a grant from the USAID/Peace Corps Small Project Assistance program. This is the only sustainable top bar beekeeping cub in Jamaica. It has been wonderful…
Trainer Sam Comfort
This is a long-overdue blog post. Trainer Sam Comfort, a top bar beekeeper from America, came to Jamaica in September 2013. We had a month of learning from this really interesting man – Sam has such a unique perspective, it is refreshing and inspirational. If anyone can inspire people to color outside the lines of…
Women Bee Farmers Association Mead Making
In September 2014, we started the Jamaica Women Bee Farmers Association. This organization supports women beekeepers who are interested in making their operations more economically and environmentally sustainable. So far, we have had monthly trainings that covered Top Bar Hive Management, Colony Health Assessment, Value Added Products and Making Honey Wine. The trainings are led…
2013 Intern Emily Erickson’s Honey Harvest
2013 Intern Emily Erickson is a star! Here she is, harvesting honey from her top bar hive in California. Great job, Emily!
Beautiful Hives
One thing we like to do is to always try to improve the hives that we use in our apiaries. If something is difficult or irritating about inspecting, moving, or using a hive, we make a note of it and change the design of future hives. The booklet that we give to people, How to…
Trainer Tom’s New Blog
Veteran trainer Tom Hebert, who has volunteered his time with us every July for the past three years, has finally started his own blog: Musings on Beekeeping. We’re lucky enough to be featured in Tom’s postings regularly, which is fun (especially for our kids). Please remember to like his blog so that you don’t miss…
Yerba Buena Farm Jamaica 