We are an small urban farm and apiary located in the heart of Versailles, Missouri. Our honey is pure, raw, local, and delicious!
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We have lived in Versailles for the last 10 years, and gardening and chicken-keeping were our primary hobbies; however, in 2017 John decided to take up beekeeping. It's been an adventure ever since! Our oldest son now participates in the beekeeping chores with his dad (as well as educating others about beekeeping through 4H). We teach our children to utilize God's gifts to their full potential and
hope that their understanding of sustainability will allow this venture to continue for generations.
Well it’s official! We have the best honey in the county according the the judges at the Morgan County Fair! We’re super proud of this accomplishment and will be submitting our honey to the state fair as well!
That being said we have pure, raw, local honey for sale right now! If you would like some please let us know!
$15 a pint or $25 for a quart!
You can call or text 573-434-1486 or message us directly!
Come see us at the Versailles Independence Day Celebration! We have honey for sale! 🇺🇸 🍯
So cool!
INTRODUCING the Bee Friendly Missouri Specialty License Plate!
The Missouri State Beekeepers Association opened up registration for the Bee Friendly Missouri license plate at the ‘Sold Out’ MO Bee Day 2024 this past Saturday, June 22
For more information on how to get your "Bee Friendly Missouri" license plate, visit the MSBA website at https://www.mobees.org/beefriendly
We have great news! It looks like we’re going to have a small summer pull! It’s been almost two years since we’ve had honey to share, so I wanted to let our wonderful followers know first! Stay tuned for updates!
John (and his dad) are working on removing a natural hive today. The property owner needs to have the tree removed, but didn’t want to harm the bees in the process. He even created a “bee vacuum” to assist him in the removal!
If you have swarms or natural hives on your property that you need help with feel free to contact us!
I’m just going to put this right here 😂
62.4K likes, 1795 comments. “Our Littlest Bee Keeper just doing her Beehive dance, living her best life!”
Just a little chicken humor 😆
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The ladies are laying like crazy! Eggs are only $3 a dozen for large eggs and $2 a dozen for small eggs!
We have honey! The pull was a lot smaller this year because we added new hives, so quantities are limited. We have a few quart jars left ($25 each) and several pints ($15) each.
It’s a family affair! Checking the bees on the beautiful day! 🐝☀️
We currently have lots of farm fresh eggs. $2/dz. $1/dz of the small silkie eggs shown at the bottom.
Plant natives in your yard and become a wildlife hotspot!
It's easy to teach a chicken one or two simple tricks. ⭐⭐🐓
Just hold a treat in front of your chicken, then move it to another position. This action will tempt most chickens to follow the treat up onto a box or through a hoop. ⭕ This training technique is 'luring.'
But your chicken isn't thinking much about what they are doing; they are just following the treat. 🍪 Using only this technique will make teaching your chicken more complicated tricks harder.
There is another way. 🤩
You can teach your chicken to look to you to tell them what to do by using gestures and communication (cues). 👍 👉🏻
I call this 'active learning.' It is a stage a chicken gets to where they understand that you want them to do something, and they will try very hard to work out what that is.
Teaching your chicken how to 'actively learn' will enable you to teach your chicken just about anything! 🤩
For example, I am teaching my Pekin hen, Gerdy, to dance. (She'll look so cute with those feathered feet!!). ❤️
She will get on the dancing platform. But I need her to 'dance' (scratch on the board). Because I have taught her a few tricks, she understands that I want her to do something when I point or gesture with my hands. She needs to work out what that is. 🤔
Gerdy will try different things until she makes the correct response. Bingo! 🎉
To me, it is still truly amazing how quickly a chicken that is 'actively learning' will work out what they need to do. 😮
The next time I gesture for her to scratch on the board, she does it within seconds! She knows that is what I want her to do. 👍
You will find that teaching your chicken each new trick will get easier and easier if you teach them how to 'actively learn.'
You will develop your own special way of communicating with each other, and your chicken will become very motivated to work out what you want them to do. 🤩🐓
⭐ Coming soon... a step-by-step guide on how to teach your chickens tricks. 🐓
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Here are tips on how to attract pollinators! 🦋
For more, read our latest blog which we wrote with info from The Xerces Society, here! ---> https://www.rareseeds.com/blog/post/how-to-plant-for-pollinators-and-why-you-should
Everyone knows to protect the bees because they pollinate flowers--but bats do it, too! Just look at this little guy COVERED in pollen! He is best böi. In fact, bats carry significantly more pollen in their fur compared to other pollinators. At least 500 species of flowers in 67 plant families rely on bats to survive. Bats are essential to our ecosystem!
With all the beeswax we collected I’m definitely going to try and make some of this! Does anyone else have any fun ways they like to use beeswax for?
John tried his hand at processing our beeswax for the first time! I found the cutest mold ever for it and just had to show off the end result!
Just a reminder: if you have a wild hive John is more than happy to come remove them. Please don’t spray them until they have been properly identified though. Yellow jackets are commonly misidentified as bees! Don’t get close regardless and let a professional identify them!
We have sunflowers the size of my head! 🌻
Another fantastic song from our local talent Jared Hicks!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TFC2Nu6ek8
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First pretty purple potato of the year!
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