Your bees come in a wooden nuc box, which can be used for many purposes, including for capturing swarms, housing splits next Spring if your bees overwinter, and using as […]
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Choosing the Location for your Hives
The location of your hives is one of the most important decisions you can make before your bees arrive. We suggest that you find a location where: The hive entrances […]
Bee Equipment Available for Pre-Order
We are ordering equipment from Mann Lake and reselling it at the standard rates for our local bee customers. You can see the bee equipment available for preorder in our […]
Recommended Hive Equipment
In their first year your new bees should fill two full deeps in order to make it through the Winter. If they have plenty of nectar available they may expand […]
Nuc Pickup
Due to the COVID-19 virus we will be scheduling individual pickups for our customers. We will send out an e-mail to customers with available times for pickup once our new […]
Setup & Process for Overwintering Bees in Colorado
We have had great success with overwintering bees in Colorado with the following setup and procedure with no losses in the past three winters. While the genetics of the bees […]