The honey bees for sale are properly mated queens from known and purchased Queen Mother stock that are grafted and mated locally. We verify the new queens laying patterns before selling them to provide a quality product.
If the honey bees for sale that you are purchasing are a 5-frame NUC, we offer different ways you can do this to allow for any budget.
- You can do a “BYOB” (bring your own box) for the most economical purchase, where you come to the farm and pick up your bees placing our 5-frames right into your own 5-frame or 10-frame box.
- The next level up includes an EZ NUC that you can pick up your bees in, simply close the entrance, tape the lid and you are on your way.
- Lastly, we also build custom wooden 5-frame NUC boxes (unpainted) that you can pick up your bees in. We will put a screen across the entrance, bring a ratchet strap and you are on your way. Don’t forget to move the bees into a 10-frame box and paint that box after you do.
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Honey Harvesting
Honey Harvesting Supplies
Now that you’ve removed the honey from the hive, you need to extract it from the frames! There are a variety of tools you can use to accomplish this.
Honey Bottling Supplies
Once you’ve extracted your honey, you need to bottle it to sell or share with friends and family. We have your honey bottling supplies covered, from filter kits to bottling tanks, valves, bottles, and lids. We carry bottles in differing sizes, quantities, and capacities, and lids in different colors as well. For larger quantities we also sell buckets and drums.
What are the” Cottage Food Laws”
In 2011, the Florida Legislature enacted HB 7209 (now Section 500.80, Florida Statutes) (http://leg.state.fl.us/statutes/) allowing individuals to manufacture, sell, and store certain types of “cottage foods” (including honey) in an unlicensed kitchen. “Cottage food operations,” as they are called, require no licensing or permitting from the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (FDACS) and are not inspected by any other state government entity.
Here is a link that will spell it out for you .edis.ifas.ufl.edu/in918
We do not have honey bees for sale from our bee removals!
The honey bees that come to the farm from bee removals are quarantined for a period of time to allow us to monitor them for any pests or diseases as well as temperament. In most cases, we have to re-queen these colonies to help dilute the africanized traits that are common in our region; therefore. they are not for sale.
