Taking Back the Means of Beekeeping

FREE for NOFA-NY Members / $15 for All Others
Please register for this field day by calling the office at (585)271-1979 ext 512 or visit the NOFA-NY Online Shopping page.

Pollination is incredibly important to fruit and vegetable producers, but relatively few farmers actually keep bees anymore. Sam Comfort will show you how to attract a swarm of wild honey bees and keep them happy and healthy without the use of harsh chemicals, expensive equipment, or intensive management. Sam will discuss do-it-yourself methods including Kenyan top bar, Warre, and Langstroth hives, as well as the role that his bees play in the pollination of diverse fruits, vegetables, herbs, trees, and wildflowers at the Germantown Community Farm.

Anarchy Apiaries stewards about 250 hives throughout the Hudson Valley and is run by Sam Comfort. Anarchy Apiaries is a part of (and provides plenty of pollination and serious sweetness for) the Germantown Community Farm, a collectively-run farm that seeks to build a regenerative local economy in the Hudson Valley and hosts the Fog & Thistle CSA, Good Fight Herb Co., and founders of WGXC Hudson Community Radio.

Made possible in part by a USDA Risk Management Agency Small Sessions Grant.