For a few months we were honestly pretty worried about the upcoming maple season. We didn’t want to alarm you all, but there was a real possibility we might not have been able to produce as much of the good stuff as we hoped. Last year we ordered supplies for expanding our maple operation. The most crucial part, a vacuum pump, ended up lost in transit for months. To make it worse, there weren’t any readily available replacements for the model we ordered. Our supplier finall

We’ve been extra busy here on the farm for the best of reasons; a new little beekeeper joined our crew last month! All the others are obsessed so far and can’t get enough of holding the littlest one. While we haven’t been getting as much knocked off the to do list, that hasn’t stopped us from planning. Our lists are drawn up and we’re just about ready to start tackling them again. It’s filled with winter prep - finalizing sap lines, winterizing the bees, sap house updates, e

It’s been a busy month filled with honey! So far we’ve only harvested the lighter colored, more mild tasting honey. The bees probably...

It’s officially firefly season! We’ve tried taking a picture to capture the magic but just haven’t been able to do it justice. The yard and field have been twinkling most nights like a scene from a fairy tale. That’s why when it came down to picking a name for our farm we chose Firefly Fields. We can’t believe how well our beehives have been doing over the past month! We’ve successfully made six splits (new hives) already because the bees have been so productive. Our apiary

Things have been a bit slower here lately vs maple season but we’re still constantly on the move. We picked up our nucs and got them settled in our apiary. When we checked on them the other day they’ve exploded in growth and might need to be split soon to create even more hives! We also set out several swarm traps. Fingers crossed we get some additional honey bees to expand our apiary even more! We checked our wild cultivated mushrooms recently and are thrilled to announce th

Our maple season was a bit shorter than we would have liked but we've still been keeping busy! Here's a quick view of what our past month or so has looked like: finished off our maple season (collected buckets, monitored sap lines, boiled down the sap to make our delicious syrup, cleaned all of the equipment, etc) checked our current beehives to ensure they're healthy set up new beehives for the nucs we're picking up next week maintenance work on our new farm truck checked ou

First off, we know we haven’t been the best about posting on here and we’re sorry! Our goal going forward is to make this more of a...

We’ve been anxiously awaiting our review from Audubon New York and it’s finally done! We had them out to our sugarbush earlier this...

Our girls have “taken over the egg business” as they’ve been saying. They are now fully in charge of all chicken related things -...

​Preorders for syrup are open now that our maple season has officially started and we’re boiling!

We’re finishing up our sap house to get ready for our first maple syrup season. Maple syrup coming soon!