Bees & Trees Farm

06/12/2026

Bumblebees are important pollinators too!

🐝💛 One tiny act can save an entire future colony. If you find a tired bumblebee resting on the ground, offer a small spoon of sugar water. A rescued queen means hundreds of future pollinators helping our flowers, fruits, and ecosystems thrive. 🌼🌿❤️

06/10/2026

This Friday (6/12) Jeff will be bringing back another load of delicious black Angus to the store; burger ($8/lb), patties $8.5/lb as well as filets ($23/lb) and New York strip ($20). It’s all farm raised, grass fed and grain finished for better marbling and taste. That’s what we call a tasty deal!

06/09/2026

Spring is sprung, the grass is riz and I KNOW where my honey bees is!

06/09/2026

Wanna help our pollinators deal with the heat??

The single most useful thing you can add to your yard this month isn't a feeder or a fancy native plant. In a June heat wave, it's water — and almost nobody offers it the right way.

A deep birdbath is a drowning hazard for the small creatures that need a drink most: bees, butterflies, and beetles can't land on open water. The fix takes five minutes.

Take a shallow dish — a plant saucer, a pie tin — and fill it with pebbles, marbles, or flat stones, so there are dozens of dry little islands to stand on. Add water just up to the tops of the stones, never over them. Set it in the shade, near flowers if you can.

🌿 What helps
Refresh it every day or two so nothing stagnates or breeds mosquitoes. That's the whole thing.

You've just built a watering hole. In a heat wave, a bee that drinks is a bee that makes it back to the hive.

06/09/2026

A very important reminder.

It doesn't have to be a hot day. A 70-degree afternoon feels mild to you. Inside a parked car with the windows cracked, it reaches 89 in ten minutes.

Your dog starts closer to the danger line than you do. Her normal body temperature is already 101. She cools herself almost entirely by panting — pulling air across her tongue. When the air inside the car is hotter than her body, the system stops working. There's nothing left to cool with.

Cracking the windows changes the interior temperature by less than four degrees. The glass traps heat faster than the gap releases it.

🐾 The rule:

- Above 65 degrees — the dog stays home. Not in the car with water. Not with the windows cracked. Not with the engine running. Home.

The ten minutes you planned is the twenty minutes you actually take. She doesn't have the difference 🐾

06/07/2026

We still have some Freedom Harvest goodies left for tomorrow! Two pans of cinnamon raisin buns, one loaf of bread and a few baguettes! We’ll be open tomorrow from 10-4!!

06/06/2026

The plantain w**d by the path — the one you almost pulled — had common buckeye caterpillars feeding on it last week. Most people have never connected that w**d to that butterfly.

The clover in the lawn brought bumble bees from morning to dusk. The serviceberries you didn't pick fed a flock of cedar waxwings in a single afternoon. The damp corner you ignored all spring now has a gray tree frog calling from it after dark.

🌿 The bed you didn't till still had ground beetles patrolling the soil surface — running down cutworms and eating w**d seeds in the dark. Tilling would have crushed them.

Six things left wild. Six species that showed up because of it. The plantain is the one most people would have pulled first — and it was feeding a butterfly nobody expected.

The yard came back. You made room 🐾

06/05/2026

No bagels this weekend but they’ll be bringing bread, baguettes and cinnamon rolls!! Heads up! These always go quickly!

Coming this weekend to Bees & Trees Farm! Come out early to be sure you get yours.

06/04/2026

We have great news for all our egg customers! We got tired of telling you we'd run out of eggs when you asked...so we decided to completely overhaul our egg business!

We gave away our remaining, older hens and have purchased this chicken tractor which holds a TON more laying hens than our previous coop and run. We've ordered 26 new young laying hens--Golden Comets & Rhode Island Reds--which are known to handle Virginia winters well, be prolific layers and lay brown eggs.

"Farmer Jeff" picked up the chicken tractor two days ago and we'll have it set up in the next week. The hens are pullets (think teenagers) and will arrive by the middle of the month! Because these hens are young, they won't all be laying eggs as soon as they get here. But by the end of August, we should be ROLLING in eggs. Hope to see you then!