ADOPTING / HOSTING HONEY BEES - Adopt a Beehive in your / our Backyard
How to contribute - If you have an organic farm, a pesticide-free large yard or garden, an area full of fruit trees or native flowering plants, a flat roof with flowering vegetation nearby, you have the perfect home for honeybees.
Pollination services - The bees and equipment remain ours but in return you'll reap the benefits of pollination without the training and hassle of opening a hive full of bees.
Rewards - Once the colony produces more honey than the bees need, we'll extract the extra honey and share two pounds of raw treatment free honey with you per hive.
Benefits - By hosting a honeybee hive in your own backyard, you can do your part to help save the honey bees one colony at a time.
Hosting a hive is a great way to help increase the honeybee population in your local area.
BACKYARD BEEHIVE ADOPTION - WHAT YOU GET:
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ONE honey beehive on our property
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Pollination benefits for the local community where our bee yards are located
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Four pounds of honey per hive, delivered in the fall. We separate harvests by location, and barring unusual hive issues will supply you with honey from your yard.
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Informal educational opportunity from an experienced beekeeper, and the opportunity to observe honey bees right in your own yard.
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Invitations to three open-houses at our own hives and shop, where you can gain hands-on experience inspecting hives, building woodenware, extracting or bottling honey.
HOSTING HONEY BEES 2020 RATES:
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One beehive $75 a month / $600 year. This helps cover the costs (accounting for annual depletion) of the bees and the wooden hives; plus tools, time, and insurance.
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A portion also covers related costs for hives in community spaces and free classes for youth
Hosting steps - Spring / Summer / Fall
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Make donation to reserve two Nuc of Bees
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Purchase the necessary bee equipment and tools
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Install the new bees into your hives
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Maintenance and beekeeping classes
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Monthly beekeeping meetings
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Harvesting early summer
Adoptions may be made in your own name, or you may designate another person to receive a gift adoption along with all the program benefits. Adopting a beehive for a child or a classroom is a great lesson in sustainability for the next generation!
You can help us save honey bees by making a donation via Go Fund Me campaign.
HOST A BEEHIVE - HELP BEES POLLINATE YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD
