Links

Local Beekeeping Clubs

Regional Beekeeping  Supplies, Bees, and Queens

Virginia Bee Supply at Andralyn Farm vabeeguy@aol.com or (540) 905-5563 or on the web at: http://www.andralynfarm.com/beekeeping_supplies.php VP Queen Bees Breeding Productive and Hardy Queen Bees. All Our Queens Are Bred From Survivor Stock. We are committed to managing all our colonies without any treatments. We chose this path to breed mite tolerant bees. We built this hardy breeding population from ours and others’ survivor stock over the last decade and we’re proud to offer you our queens.  Contact us in Frederick, MD at 301-662-4844 or email info@vpqueenbees.com or on the web at: http://www.vpqueenbees.com/ The Sustainable Honey Bee Program (Virginia) A non profit Virginia company dedicated to producing quality local queens and nucs to make available to beekeepers in the region around our northern Virginia operations.  http://www.sustainablebees.org/ or :info@sustainablebees.org

Virginia Beekeeping Links

Virginia Beekeeping information, Hive management, etc.

Disease Management

National Organizations

Honey Related

Help Save Honey Bees

Other Beekeeping Clubs and Individual Beekeeping Sites

Print Magazines

Forums

Research

University Affiliated

Bee Photography

OUR FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS IN LOCAL AGRICULTURE

The Local Food Project at Airlie The Local Food Project at Airlie consists of an organic culinary garden which supplies fresh, sustainable herbs, vegetables, fruits and flowers to Airlie Center’s kitchen. Airlie Foundation uses the Local Food Project to demonstrate the benefits of sustainable agriculture and local food systems. The Project hosts seminars, tours and conferences to promote sustainable food production using natural methods. Contact us at localfoodproject@airlie.org or call 540-347-1300, ext. 3163 on the web at: http://www.airlie.org/activities/foodproject.htm

Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) There are a few local community supported agriculture (CSA) farms that we are aware of:

Bull Run Mountain Farm in the Plains. Contact on the web at http://www.bullrunfarm.com/

Stoney Lonesome Farm in Gainesville. Contact at 703-754-9145 or on the web at: http://www.slfarm.us/

Smith Family Farm Smith Family farm is a 5th generation working farm, certified as a Virginia Quality-Assured Beef Producer, located near the Manassas National Battlefield.   Contact us at 5770 Artemus Road Gainesville, VA 20155, Phone: 571-220-0017, or on the web at: http://www.beefandhayproducer.com/

Farm Foody: Connecting Farmers and their Customers A social networking Web site to connect farmers and their customers. Farm – a farm, vineyard, PYO, Farmer’s Market, CSA, a victory garden — a local producer. All farms want foodies as friends. Foody – a customer, chef, everyone with a relationship to a farm and who wants to make friends with a farm or another foody. Once friendship is made, a foody receives bulletins that their farm friends post. Contact on the web at:  http://www.farmfoody.org/

Prince William County Cooperative Extension Teaching Gardens The Teaching Garden is project of the Master Gardener volunteers.  It began as a garden in which to grow fresh produce for the Plant a Row for the Hungry project, and a place where the Master Gardeners could teach homeowners how to grow vegetables.  It now has beds to teach the public how to grow all kinds of different plants.  Master Gardeners are at the garden every Tuesday afternoon 1- 4 p.m. and on some weekends from March through September.  We also offer short classes each “First Saturday” every month during the growing season on turf, vegetables, ornamentals, pests and diseases. St. Benedict Monastery, 9535 Linton Hall Road, Bristow, VA. Contact us on the web at: http://www.pwcgov.org/default.aspx?topic=040083003310001191