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Sager Family Farm is a nature education business based in San Diego, California. We currently teach in San Diego, LA, and the SF Bay Area

We specialize in taking critters into classrooms, creating an engaging and educational experience that students love!

04/06/2025

Hello from Coco! ☀️

03/27/2025

Last chance to book Sager Family Farm and our viewing hive for a visit at your school 🐝

The end of the year is swiftly approaching, and our calendar is filling up! Follow the link in our bio to book one of our 7 lessons and workshops.

03/23/2025

Start planting your seeds now!

Here at Sager Family Farm, we’re prepping for the spring season by planting some flowers that pollinators (and we) love 🌻 they’ll be blooming just in time for spring!

Plant a few of these flowers, and you’ll see bees, butterflies, hummingbirds and other pollinators in your garden. Happy planting!

02/24/2025

Bee Brave explores the common fear of bees, and teaches students what fear and anxiety feel like in our bodies.

This lesson gives students the right techniques to handle themselves in stressful situations.

Check out our 7 lesson options by clicking the link in our bio!

02/20/2025

One of our favorite lessons is our brand new Rolled Candle Workshop!

In addition to rolling & decorating their very own candle, students learn how bees produce wax, and its many uses for both bees and humans.

This workshop is fun for all ages, classes, and clubs! Click the link in our bio if you’re interested in a Rolled Candle Workshop of your own.

02/17/2025

Did you know that it’s a common misconception that smoke makes bees sleepy? It doesn’t!

Bees communicate through smell, by releasing pheromones from their bodies. The smoke helps mask the alarm smell that bees release to alert their hive about potential danger.

Once it’s clear that the bees aren’t alarmed or preparing to protect their hive, beekeepers can inspect the hive without fear of swarming.

Here’s Kendal using her smoker before inspecting her hives!

02/14/2025

Wishing everyone a lovely Valentine’s Day from Sager Family Farm 💕

02/11/2025

We love to see student artwork!

Thank you to these creative students for sending us their lovely drawings and sharing their favorite bee facts 🐝

02/04/2025

Bee Brave explore the common fear of bees, and teaches students what fear and anxiety feel like in our bodies.

This lesson gives students the right techniques to handle themselves in stressful situations.

Check out our 7 lesson options by clicking the link in our bio!

01/20/2025

THANK YOU to everyone who donated to Sager Family Farm, or any other nonprofit that they believe in! 💛🖤

And a very special thanks to paloaltoonline and shealthdistrict for their incredible work funding programs like ours!

It’s incredibly fulfilling to be able to serve our community with free lessons, and we’re excited to continue to do so!

01/18/2025

Sager Family Farm brought our viewing hives to over 8,000 excited students!

Our wonderful educators love to invite students to take a close-up look at our bees!

One of our favorite lessons is Bee Brave, it helps students manage fear and understand their fear responses in their daily lives. It also explains why bees might use their own defense mechanisms against us scary humans!

01/13/2025

What type of foods would be on our plates if we didn’t have pollinators?

Hint: we wouldn’t have ANY of the items in this photo! Fruits, vegetables, and flowers all rely on pollinators to grow and flourish! 🍊🥕🍅🫛🍓

Learn more about how bees and other pollinators contribute to the food we eat in our Pollinator Plate lesson! Perfect for 2nd Grade and up!

Want a lesson at your school? Click the link in our bio to book one!

01/10/2025

…and we’re excited to hit the ground running with more school visits in 2025 🌻

Interested in a lesson at your school, library, or club? We teach students and adults of all grades and ages in San Diego & the Bay Area.

Click the link in our bio for more information on our lessons!

01/08/2025

Sager Family Farm brought our viewing hives to over 3,500 excited students!

Our wonderful educators love to invite students to take a close-up look at our bees!

One of our favorite lessons is Bee Brave, it helps students manage fear and understand their fear responses in their daily lives. It also explains why bees might use their own defense mechanisms against us scary humans!

01/04/2025

Kendal and Jennifer, our inspiring educators, have taught over 335 lessons this year!

We offer lessons in the Bay Area - taught by Jennifer 🐝

And lessons & farm tours in San Diego - taught by Kendal 🐝

Click the link in our bio for more information about our lessons!

12/31/2024

Thank you to all of the donors, parents, teachers, schools and libraries that care so much about our environment and our young learners!

We’re so lucky to have a job that provides education to explorers of all ages, and we love what we do! It’s been a wonderful year this year and we’re looking forward to 2025 🥂

12/24/2024

Happy holidays from Sager Family Farm! We wish everyone a wonderful holiday season and a Happy New Year! 🎊

12/19/2024

A few of our favorite pics of a few of our favorite chicks 🐥

We love assisting classes with their egg hatches! And luckily we have a cozy place for them to live once hatched.

Here are a few pics of last year’s batch of chicks!

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San Diego, CA
92109

Telephone

+16507352337

Website

http://www.sagerfamilyfarm.com/

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A lovely Wednesday with happy Sager Family Farm bees ☀️ 1 bee can visit over 1,000 flowers a day to collect nectar and pollen for their hives 🐝

Big Buzz About Bees booking for San Diego and the Bay Area is open for the 2024-2025 school year! - Try our “reverse” field trip - we come to you! Save costs on travel funds and trip planning, we put together a lesson plan and schedule that works around your school day! - Grades TK-5 will enjoy interactive and exciting lessons all centered around bees 🐝 the best part? We bring our live viewing hive full of over 5,000 busy bees to your class, students can enjoy and safe and up-close view of a working hive 🍯 - Want to book a Bug Buzz About Bees visit at your school? Click the link in our bio for more information! Or visit sagerfamilyfarm.com ........#fieldtripsandiego #fieldtripbayarea #sandiegoschooldistrict #classvisitssandiego #sagerfamilyfarm

Seen any monarchs in your garden recently? They’re migrating! Flying all the way from North American to warm Southern California and Mexico for the winter 🍃 Who else has been stocking up on milkweed and native plants for our Monarchs to enjoy?

The bees are busy collecting pollen from the Pygmy Date Palms this morning! Check out their pollen pants, it's a pale light yellow pollen 💛🐝 #sagerfamilyfarm #bigbuzzaboutbees #pollinatorweek #educational #bees

In honor of Pollinator Week, here is a unique view of a honey bee with red pollen in her pollen baskets! ♦️ A Pollen Basket is a special flat spot on a bee’s hind legs fringed with long curved hairs and is used to carry pollen. When a bee collects pollen, it uses nectar or honey to create a Pollen Pellet. The pellet is brought back to the hive and used to create "bee bread" in order to feed developing larvae! Why would this pollen pellet be RED? Flowers are known to create all sorts of different colored pollen, including yellow, orange, white, green, red, or even purple pollen pellets (say that three times fast!) 🌺 This red pollen comes from Rock Purslane (Calandrinia grandiflora)........#PollinatorWeek #Pollinator #bigbuzzaboutbees #fieldtripsandiego #NativePlantsCalifornia

A hot day to be in the bee suit, but it's always a good day in the @_filoli Gentleman's Orchard. #beekeeping #Filoli #rainbow

Honey is coming soon! The bees have been hard at work 🍯🐝

We're at the Pollinator Festival at Native West Nursery today! Stop by our table to smell the pheromones that bees use to communicate, see flowers how bees might see them, and maybe even spot our queen! #learning #educational #bees #pollinators

It’s World Bee Day! Today’s the day to give some much deserved praise to BEES! Bees have such an huge impact on our environment - from the beautiful plants that surround us, to the food on our plates! Without these industrious pollinators, our world would be a lot less colorful. Here at Sager Family Farm, we’re doing all we can to help our bees thrive, and teach explorers of all ages how important they are! Celebrate World Bee day by planting some flowers and exploring the nature that bees help create 🪻🌷🌻 #savethebees #worldbeeday #WorldBeeDay2024 #sagerfamilyfarm #bigbuzzaboutbees

Halloween might be over, but Coco the sheep is still enjoying leftover pumpkins!!! ❤️🎃 #holiday #treats #pumpkin #sheep #farm

Want to do your part for the environment? Plant flowers! It’s the easiest way to help bees an other pollinators do their job- and they’re not so tough on the eyes either 🌻 The best flowers for bees are lavender, sunflowers, and poppies! For this reel, we planted a few variations of different sunflowers. Stay tuned to watch them grow! #sagerfamilyfarm #nonprofitsandiego #savethenees #smallfarmsandiego

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About Sager Family Farm

My name is Kendal Sager, and I started my adventure into farming as a first grader on a class field trip to Hidden Villa. I was so inspired, that I have been volunteering or working in the nature education field ever since.

In 2011, I got my first farm critter: bees. Since, then I've steadily been adding to my suburban farm with chickens, fruits, veggies, and various crafts. Most of my critters live at my home, though I also keep beehives throughout my hometown of Los Altos, and the surrounding areas. I have a passion for teaching and I love sharing my experience through educational talks and events.

Check out my blog to follow my adventures in beekeeping, or take a look at the education page if you're interested in any of the classes, talks, or other fun activities I do.