Farmette At Cerrito

Farmette At Cerrito First planted in 1976, our small urban farm keeps the family tradition alive! A beneficial space for

Hey Everyone! Here are the sizes and bottle choices 😉Darn bottles and jars are getting expensive!2oz bears $54oz jar $8...
05/07/2024

Hey Everyone! Here are the sizes and bottle choices 😉

Darn bottles and jars are getting expensive!

2oz bears $5
4oz jar $8
8oz jar $14
10oz $17
1lb (light or dark) $24

Venmo works (or cash at pick up)

-Cerrito

Pick up is at the Farmette

Who wants honey? Pulled 25 pounds today and Friday! We’ve got 2oz, 4oz, 8oz, 10oz and 1 lb jars of BEAUTIFUL Peninsula...
05/05/2024

Who wants honey? Pulled 25 pounds today and Friday! We’ve got 2oz, 4oz, 8oz, 10oz and 1 lb jars of BEAUTIFUL Peninsula Wildflower Raw Honey.

Come and get it! (DM for more info)

Play a game? Name that fruit tree, plant or flower!
02/26/2024

Play a game? Name that fruit tree, plant or flower!

Warm February day! The farmette is coming alive!! Working on new honey already!
02/25/2024

Warm February day! The farmette is coming alive!! Working on new honey already!

Honey is starting to come on the Farmette! Just this one frame must weigh 7-8 lbs. yum! Delicious 🐝🐝🍯
08/28/2023

Honey is starting to come on the Farmette! Just this one frame must weigh 7-8 lbs. yum! Delicious 🐝🐝🍯

07/30/2023
06/18/2023

Very active apiary yesterday! Had a swarm come in rather than leave. There was a cloud of bees around the backyard for about an hour, waiting for these girls to settle down! Bees are funny creatures.

Sonia Picone
Charmaine Picone McCrystal




Three years! Just three years later and the yellow prodeous have finally flowered! Still waiting on the orange, but th...
06/18/2023

Three years! Just three years later and the yellow prodeous have finally flowered! Still waiting on the orange, but they’re trying!!

Apricot picking is happening today on our ‘early’ tree! This from a tree that is old and normally gives us 10 pieces, i...
06/04/2023

Apricot picking is happening today on our ‘early’ tree! This from a tree that is old and normally gives us 10 pieces, if the squirrels don’t get them first! Happy Picking Fruit Day!!

Wouldn’t have so many without our bees!!



06/03/2023

The March of the bees is on! This swarm is 15,000+ strong moving into their new home! Once the queen is in, the rest start fanning her pheromone to the others and in they all come!



Sonia Picone
Charmaine Picone

Must be May 1st!! Lots of activity at the Farmette At Cerrito! Tilling, raking, plant locator stakes set, irrigation, ...
05/03/2023

Must be May 1st!! Lots of activity at the Farmette At Cerrito! Tilling, raking, plant locator stakes set, irrigation, weeding and guidance! Perfect that it’s raining today. Soil will be ready to go for the new seedlings this weekend!!

More to come!

Big news at the Farmette!! The apiary has expanded to 6 hives! And! Today we got our first 10lbs of honey for the 2023...
04/25/2023

Big news at the Farmette!! The apiary has expanded to 6 hives! And! Today we got our first 10lbs of honey for the 2023 season! And! Lots more to come!

Will be selling honey coming up in 2 weeks so keep an eye on our page.

Yum! Honey is BACK! 🐝 🐝 🐝 🍯

04/02/2023

Spring suddenly showed up on April 1st! So did a ton of drones in the bee hives. An excessive amount of drones can be an indication of a pending swarm. Unfortunately, they also attract deadly hive mites. The biggest help to a hive is to remove as many drones as possible and euthanize the entire frame. 😢

Not to worry, there are 19 more frames for this hive to work with.

The Farmette is starting to show that spring is right around the corner!The spring flow is starting to kick in. Those th...
02/13/2023

The Farmette is starting to show that spring is right around the corner!

The spring flow is starting to kick in. Those that want honey, looks like it’s going to be a big year!

🍯 🐝 🐝

09/18/2022

We have a new queen bee in hive 3!! There were little or no baby bees being made. The old queen had died. (Probably of old age. That happens in swam caught hives.). Took two frames of larva and eggs from the other hives and… voilà, they made a new queen! Took 4 weeks to happen. But there she was!! Can you find her in the attached video??

Sonia Picone
Charmaine McCrystal

09/18/2022

Honey For Sale!!
20 lbs of Fall Honey just came in! DM the Farmette 🐝 🍯
4oz, 8oz, 1lb
Yummy Stuff!!

The tomato sauce jar’ng has finished!! One lug of tomatoes = 30-32 jars of sauce! Sonia Picone got 30 jars using the ha...
08/13/2022

The tomato sauce jar’ng has finished!! One lug of tomatoes = 30-32 jars of sauce! Sonia Picone got 30 jars using the hand cranked food mill and her daughter got 30+ jars using the electric mill. Whatever version you use, make it special and memorable. Pass it along to the next generation!!

08/11/2022
08/08/2022

Now for the good stuff! Charmaine on the food mill! After this, jar-ing!! Then we’ve got dozens of jars of sauce ready to go all year for all kinds of stuff. Yum!

Eric McCrystal
Sonia Picone

The ‘sauce’ will be canned (jar’d actually) and used all year long. Just salt and oil. Next step is the food mill!Soni...
08/07/2022

The ‘sauce’ will be canned (jar’d actually) and used all year long. Just salt and oil. Next step is the food mill!

Sonia Picone
Charmaine Mccrystal
Eric McCrystal

08/07/2022

Today is tomato roasting day at the Farmette! Wow the house smells good!

Sonia Picone
Charmaine Mccrystal
Eric McCrystal

Yea!
07/28/2022

Yea!

We have HONEY!! Honey for sale at the Farmette! We just harvested POUNDS of honey from one of the hives on Sunday. Di...
07/28/2022

We have HONEY!! Honey for sale at the Farmette! We just harvested POUNDS of honey from one of the hives on Sunday. Discounted for our followers, 4oz gift jars, $7. 8oz gift jars, $10. One pound jars, $16. Can do custom sizes for wedding and event gifts. Delicious garden flower and wildflower flavors! We take cash or Venmo for pick up.

Comment below or DM for directions and address for pick up. Yum!!

(Can do pepper infused honey too!)

Sonia Picone
Eric McCrystal

We had 3 young helpers at the Farmette today to pick apricots! (And Mom!) Neighbors from around the corner. I think the...
07/17/2022

We had 3 young helpers at the Farmette today to pick apricots! (And Mom!) Neighbors from around the corner. I think they ate as many as they picked!! 😂. Yum!!

Sonia Picone


07/10/2022

Rainwater irrigation is now up and running on a small part of the Farmette!

Check out the set up!




While we are visiting our friends in northern France, we have come across many amazing pollinators that we don’t see bac...
07/03/2022

While we are visiting our friends in northern France, we have come across many amazing pollinators that we don’t see back home. Enjoy!

It’s plum harvest day on the Farmette! Four massive trays headed to Donato’s Italian Resteraunt in RWC to make deliciou...
06/30/2022

It’s plum harvest day on the Farmette! Four massive trays headed to Donato’s Italian Resteraunt in RWC to make delicious treats. Tomatoes are starting to come along. Yum!

Sonia Picone directing the activities. 😉

We have never seen a sunflower with so many flowers! Just had to post another photo. Also, look at the pollen sacks o...
06/28/2022

We have never seen a sunflower with so many flowers! Just had to post another photo. Also, look at the pollen sacks on this native bee!! (This is not a European honey bee.)


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Bees LOVE free nectar! What wasn’t converted to honey just gets fed back to them to put back in their hives!

Very active apiary yesterday! Had a swarm come in rather than leave. There was a cloud of bees around the backyard for about an hour, waiting for these girls to settle down! Bees are funny creatures. Sonia Picone Charmaine Picone McCrystal #farmetteatcerrito #beeswarm #honeyislife #apiary

The March of the bees is on! This swarm is 15,000+ strong moving into their new home! Once the queen is in, the rest start fanning her pheromone to the others and in they all come! #flowhive #farmetteatcerrito Sonia Picone Charmaine Picone

Friday afternoon fun with bees! Sippin’ a beer at my favorite brewery #devilscanyonbrewery and I got a call! ‘Your bees are swarming!’ Not mine, but FREE Bees! #farmetteatcerrito. #flowhive

Spring suddenly showed up on April 1st! So did a ton of drones in the bee hives. An excessive amount of drones can be an indication of a pending swarm. Unfortunately, they also attract deadly hive mites. The biggest help to a hive is to remove as many drones as possible and euthanize the entire frame. 😢 Not to worry, there are 19 more frames for this hive to work with.

New QueeN
New QueeN

We have a new queen bee in hive 3!! There were little or no baby bees being made. The old queen had died. (Probably of old age. That happens in swam caught hives.). Took two frames of larva and eggs from the other hives and… voilà, they made a new queen! Took 4 weeks to happen. But there she was!! Can you find her in the attached video?? Sonia Picone Charmaine McCrystal

Food mill grinds it all down…
Food mill grinds it all down…

Now for the good stuff! Charmaine on the food mill! After this, jar-ing!! Then we’ve got dozens of jars of sauce ready to go all year for all kinds of stuff. Yum! Eric McCrystal Sonia Picone

Roasting the tomatoes with oil and salt only
Roasting the tomatoes with oil and salt only

Today is tomato roasting day at the Farmette! Wow the house smells good! Sonia Picone Charmaine Mccrystal Eric McCrystal

900 gallons of rainwater!
900 gallons of rainwater!

Rainwater irrigation is now up and running on a small part of the Farmette! Check out the set up! #rainwater #rainwaterharvesting #usewhatyouhave #freewater

Spell bound by the active movement of the bees today! Lots of nectar and pollen coming in. They, literally, work themselves to death!

The ladies are coming home!
The ladies are coming home!

Hive #3 comes to the Farmette! Check out the girls ‘marching’ up to their new entrance. They are all about smelling their queen and following her everywhere. There’s going to be honey on the farm!

Queen’s Reward Meadery
Queen’s Reward Meadery

Something fun! Visiting Tupelo, MS right now and found an amazing meadery called Queen’s Reward. Check out the quick 1 minute visit. Cant wait to try our own mead at the Farmette! Coming Soon! #queensreward

Bee swarm caught April 2nd!
Bee swarm caught April 2nd!

Bee hive #3 is coming soon to the Farmette! Caught a swam in the swarm box at Sonia Picone ‘s back yard Pepper Tree (an annual occurrence)! Once they settle in for a couple of weeks, they’ll be moved to the apiary at the Farmette. Lots of honey coming soon from the girls already at the Farm. Who’s in?!?

Hive check, Jan 2022
Hive check, Jan 2022

Honey is coming! Exactly what a healthy, strong bee hive should look like in January! Lots of honey and pollen to get them to spring flowers 🌸 Sonia Picone Charmaine McCrystal

What a perfect day on the Farmette! January is ‘weed season’! Charmaine, Sonia Picone and Eric McCrystal spent the morning clearing out the bean patch and the bee area! Getting excited for spring!!

Bees doing what they do!
Bees doing what they do!

Bees loving a long awaited sunny day! Did you know that bees don’t poop inside their hives? They wait for sunny days (in the winter) and all head out to expel their yellow/brownish poop. They also take advantage of the sunny day to hit up the Spanish sage and lions mane and other local winter flowers. 😉 Sonia Picone Charmaine McCrystal

Waiting for a treat… Always
Waiting for a treat… Always

Chickens are hilarious. And very well trained to expect food scraps! This hen is Always the first one at the door. They are little dinosaurs. They eat just about anything. Sonia Picone Charmaine McCrystal

Cardboard saves the day!!
Cardboard saves the day!!

Winter on the Farmette. Weeds!!! How do we deal with them? Tarps and cardboard boxes. The cardboard gets tilled back into the soil in the spring and feeds the new growth. Weeds can’t grow. Win-win!

Wasp makes a dumb move!!
Wasp makes a dumb move!!

This is what it looks like when a wasp, stupidly, enters a bee hive. Got get em girls!!

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