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.
Not interested in Bees? We do a lot more at the farm than just bees. Click here to visit our Farm’s website and online farmstand
Advanced Beekeeping | Hands-On Series, includes Suiting Up and Going into the Hives (1-day)
This is a unique and one of a kind opportunity to actually work the bees in actual bee hives as part of the Hands-on portion of the workshop. We will suit you up and take a close look at the bees, doing splits, caging and releasing the queen. You will be learning how to be a more proficient beekeeper, by learning the challenges of increases, splits equalizing your colonies and re-queening with personal hands-on experience working in the hive. Learn from a UF Advanced Master Beekeepers
Class Lecture on Saturday from 9am-1pm at GreenView Aquaponics Family Farm & Apiary, at 4160 Old Burnt Store Road, N, Cape Coral, FL 33993
- Honey Bee Anatomy
- Pheromones
- Increases
- Splitting Colonies
- Equalizing Colonies
- ReQueening Colonies
Hands-On Workshop on Saturday from 1pm-4/5pm at GreenView Aquaponics Family Farm & Apiary, at 4160 Old Burnt Store Road, N, Cape Coral, FL 33993
- Walkaway Split - how to create increases with Walkaway Splits.
- Split with Swarm Cells - how to split a hive once you have Swarm Cells
- Equalizing Hives - why and how to keep your colonies
- Find, Catch, Cage a Queen (practice with Drones)
- ReQueening a Hive - over-the-shoulder with UF Advanced Master Beekeeper
Students receive a kit that includes:
- Increase Essentials book by Dr Larry Connor
- Queen Catcher
- Queen Cage
- Lunch & bottled water
Bee 101 is a pre-requisite for this class. Haven't taken Bee 101? Click here to sign up for the last one before this workshop.
You will need to bring your own PPE (veil and gloves at minimum) and hive tool
eWaiver required for Hands-on Workshop portion. Additional equipment and protective gear available for purchase.
REGISTRATION ends on Thursday before class. REGISTER TODAY, so you don't miss out!
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Limited seats available. Register early
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.
