Bridgette Whalen
April 24th, 2025
Graft 2 is officially underway. Today, we introduced 30 larvae into queen cups—a slight increase from the previous…
April 15th, 2025
The rain finally let up just in time for us to begin grafting again—because when it’s time to…
April 14th, 2025
We officially kicked off our queen rearing season today by setting up the cell raiser. To prepare the…
August 16th, 2023
We didn’t need to move any cells out of the cell raiser because at this point we’re done…
July 27th, 2023
Caitlin went and moved the developed cells from graft nine to the apiary – she had 26 fully…
July 17th, 2023
I conduct graft nine, which is our last graft for the year, and again only did 30 cups…
July 7th, 2023
I’m back in Boston! I conduct our eighth graft on my own. This graft we decided to go…
March 30, 2023
Emily and I make a map of all hives within a 5 mile radius to get an idea…
June 27th, 2023
Caitlin and Maggie conducted our seventh graft while I was in Denver. From our sixth graft that I…
June 18th, 2023
We shipped out more queens to our other regions; to Philadelphia, DC, Portland, Chicago, and Seattle. We shipped…
June 17th, 2023
Libby and I conducted the sixth graft before I left to visit our Denver facility. We had 12…
June 12, 2023
I checked the cell raisers → the original cell raiser had 27/30 takes, and the new cell raiser…