Starting Our Beehive for the Season | Forto’s Fort and Bee Farm

Watch us install 10,000 bees into our hive in Alaska and begin the spring beekeeping season with a new queen, cold weather prep, and hive setup tips.
Walk

For those that know me, this week marks a very difficult time in my life. I am proud to say that I overcame and beat all of the odd but that does not diminish things that I can not change. My friends and family also know that music is a huge part of my life. […]
11 Years at Fortos Fort in Alaska

11 Years! 11 years ago today we bought Fortos Fort in Willow, Alaska on a rainy day by giving my 12-year-old daughter the option to stay in Denver or move to Alaska. She voted to move and we left a wad of cash of several 1000 dollars on the realtor’s kitchen table—he wasn’t even home! […]
A decade at Fortos’ Fort

It is hard to believe that it has been a decade. On July 4, 2010 my daughter, Nicole and I arrived in Alaska and it changed our family’s lives forever. We saw this little house as a possibility to make so many dreams come true. So much has changed over the last ten years. So […]
Youth Gone Wild/Touch of Gray

I can remember it like it was yesterday. It was July 12, 1989. I was really early for a concert and found myself playing hacky sack around the back of the Richmond Coliseum. As I was kicking around the little leather bag I soon found out that it was Rachel Bolan, Scott Hill and Dave […]