This week we shift from our winter schedule to start weekly deliveries again. We’ve been planting like crazy in the dry times and enjoying the last down times of the season when the rain keeps us out of the fields. Thank you for letting us grow your vegetables again this year!

By Keith Kimes, Kimes Apiary

Keith Kimes is a local beekeeper who keeps many of his hives on High Ground Organics’ two farm properties. We know that many of you are interested in the plight of honeybees worldwide, so we asked Keith for an update on his own efforts at limiting losses in his beehives.

Keith Kimes keeps his bees on our farm, which helps to keep our crops pollinated and growing well, and provides his bees with a healthy organic field to live in. He has some hives at our Lewis Road site and some at our home fields. The honey we have available now is from the Lewis Rd. hives and is largely from the spring blossoming of the eucalyptus trees and wildflowers at the top of our farm fields. (You can see some of the hives in the background in the picture to the left from our 2012 spring farm tour.) I asked Keith to write a little bit about his bees and the ups and downs of the honey flow. — Jeanne]