News & Events
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Maple Sugaring Day
Saturday, February 28, 11am-3pm at MassAudubon's Boston Nature Center.
This family-friendly event is ideal for anyone wanting to learn how to tap locally, and also perfect if you simply want to get outside and stand in the sweet steam of boiling maple sap. Plenty of indoor kiddie activities, too. Come with questions. For more info and registration, click HERE.
Spring's coming!
Despite our wonderfully 'normal' winter, 2025 was the 2nd or 3rd warmest on record. Average global temperatures are flirting with or have surpassed 1.5° C (2.7° F) above pre-industrial levels. How do we stop the burn?
For other workshops and happenings, check the Workshops calendar here.
Agricultural Hall?
In 1818, the Massachusetts Society for the Promotion of Agriculture built the original Agricultural Hall on Dighton Street in Brighton. It served as the hub of the Brighton Fair and Cattle Show, one of the earliest and largest such fairs in the country. In 1829, "a 17-pound turnip, a 19-pound radish, and a bough on which pears hung like a cluster of grapes were among the outstanding exhibits of that year." In 1844 the building was moved to its present location at the corner of Chestnut Hill Avenue and Washington Street.
Dr. William P. Marchione &
The Bostonian Society
Agricultural Hall
Beekeeping Supplies at
Agricultural Hall's Store
Woodenware from Maine, hive tools from Massachusetts' own Maxant Industries, clothing, smokers, bottling glassware, and more. See a more complete sales sheet below and on the "More Beekeeping Supplies" page.
Beekeeping Workshops at
Agricultural Hall
Several workshops are taught each winter and early spring. Later, swarm management, mite control, and other workshops follow later in sppring and into summer. Check "News & Events," at left, the calendar here, or give me a call.
Hang out and learn beekeeping tips in the Boston Nature Center apiary every summer Saturday (usually during Boston Public School's summer vacation) from 10-noon. Call 617-388-7378 for more information.
Beekeeping Links
Here are some helpful links. Suggestions are encouraged:
1) Boston Beekeepers at: http://www.BostonBeekeepers.org/
2) Mass Beekeepers Assn. at; http://www.massbee.org/
3) Click this Beginning Beekeeping link to be taken to to a collection of other great links; (returning soon -- 1/26)
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Agricultural Hall carries Langstroth hive components -- the most common hive style in use worldwide, and we now have Warre and top bar hives as well -- some with observation windows! Mix it up a little.
We have a generous supply of deep, medium & shallow 10-frame & 8-frame supers (as well as 4 & 5-frame nucs and accessories), frames, and wired foundation. (Supplies of shallow foundation are intermittent.) All hive woodenware is milled in Maine from commercial grade white pine. To help you cut costs, Ag Hall offers a limited selection of 'budget' boxes and frames, as well as used equipment when available.
Prices are for unassembled hive components. Assembled hives are available for approximately 40% above unassembled prices. Call for details.
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