BC Honey Producer wins Leadership Award
Jeff Lee, a BC beekeeper and co-owner of Honey Bee Zen Apiaries Ltd. and Swan Valley Honey located in Creston, BC was awarded the Leadership Award at the 2024 BC Food & Beverage Rise Awards. The event was held Thursday, November 28th at the Anvil Centre in New Westminster, BC. Lee is a former ca
Canada Post Strike – Your Online Orders
The strike by Canada Post workers that began Friday, November 15 will not affect our online ordering system.We have already moved away from using the national mail service for most domestic deliveries. We have a suite of other courier services to rely on. These include UPS, FedEx, Canpar, and even P
What Do “Unpasteurized”, “Raw” or “Pure Honey” really Mean?
We frequently get questions from people who visit our farm store or see us at farmers’ markets who want to know about our honey.They’ll ask questions like:“Is this unpasteurized?”“Is this raw or pure honey?”“Do you heat your honey?”“Is this honey organic?”These are all legitimate
On Winning at the honey shows
I am late getting this post up about our tremendous success at the North American and American Honey Shows.In the meantime, we’ve received a lot of media attention about these wins. The phenomenal public response and support has been truly amazing.So here are the long-overdue details:In early Janu
The Fun of Our Award-winning Honey Sourdough bread
It’s pretty gratifying when hard work is rewarded with recognition. In this case, it is Amanda’s own “Bees N’ Seeds” honey sourdough bread. It captured first place and a blue ribbon at the North American Honey Show in Louisville Kentucky, January 2024. It was at Kamon Reynolds’ f
How A Food & Buyers Expo Helps Our Honey Farm Business
We took advantage of the Basin Food & Buyers Expo event in Invermere to reach new customers and also take in important lessons on how to strengthen our honey business.
Renewing Brain Cells with BCHPA beekeeping speakers
Spring always brings the promise of new opportunities and discoveries. Our winter months are consumed with cleaning and rebuilding equipment, expanding capacity and ordering supplies for the coming year. But as the snow recedes up into the mountains, it also brings us closer to one of our favourite
On Agriculture Minister Lana Popham’s Support For Bees in B.C.
March is always a frenetic time for us. We’re just coming out of winter, full of hope for our bees and eager for the new season. It is also the month that delivers new information and ideas, and when theoretical information can transform into practical use. I’m speaking about the B.C. Honey Prod
How To Make Beeswax Food Wraps
We’ve been spending some time making beeswax food wraps for our clients, and it is so easy we thought we should do a video on how to do it. We already sell the beeswax wrap kits! Beeswax wraps are indespensible in the kitchen for preserving foods, from keeping cheese from drying out to coverin
From Disaster To Great Promise, The Bees Are Alive!
How fast things can change in a single year! From disaster last winter to fortune this spring, from crying over rows of dead hives to laughing over whole yards of live ones. After a disatrous winter last year our honey bees have come through winter in “flying” condition. Last year we wer